On Tuesday 30 January, the European Commission proposed that the Council of the European Union authorise it to negotiate a new protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement with Côte d’Ivoire.
The existing Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Côte d’Ivoire was signed on 1 July 2007.
The current six-year protocol implementing this agreement entered into provisional application on 1 August 2018 and will expire on 31 July 2024. It sets out the fishing...