On Monday 28 July, the European Commission adopted a regulation providing details of the Community system to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, in particular the ‘CATCH’ database on the management of catch certificates.
EU importers and Member State authorities will be required to use ‘CATCH’ from 10 January 2026. ‘CATCH’ is an EU-wide, real-time IT system for centralised management of all information, data and documents (see EUROPE...