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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8285

29 August 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/johannesburg summit
Commissioner Franz Fischler welcomes agreement to prevent overfishing and restore fish stocks by 2015

Brussels, 28/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - In Johannesburg, the draft agreement by the delegates of 189 countries to restore stocks of fish threatened with extinction in overfished oceans by the year 2015 was, on Wednesday, a first attempt to direct the second World Summit for Sustainable Development towards concrete objectives, together with a timetable, in compliance with the wish expressed by the European Union (see EUROPE of 27 August, p.4). Franz Fischler, European Fisheries Commissioner...

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