28/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Monday, the Council of the EU adopted without debate a technical regulation granting exemptions to the new Member States for various provisions of the 2002 regulation on the sustainable exploitation of fish resources. As the reference levels for the fishing fleets constitute the sum of objectives by segment of the pluriannual orientation programme 1997-2002, there is no point setting levels for countries which entered the Community after the programmes had...