The European Commission has taken an important step towards simplifying catch declarations for the unsorted pelagic fisheries sector. On Thursday 15 May, the Commission adopted a regulation (https://aeur.eu/f/gw0) providing an initial list of landing ports to enable operators in these ports to benefit from a margin of tolerance derogation, provided that strict control conditions are respected in these ports.
The margin of tolerance represents the maximum authorised difference between the...