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Publisher: Commission of the European Communities
Creation date: January 24, 2000
The Commission launched in March 1998, a consultation process on the Common Fisheries Policy after 2002, in two phases. In the first phase, some 350 questionnaires were sent to representative organisations and associations with an interest in fisheries, in all the Member States of the European Union. These organisations and associations were asked for their views, not only on those issues which according to the Council Regulation n° 3760/92 and the Acts of Accession of 1985 and 1994, are subject to review in 2002, but also on all other aspects of the Common Fisheries Policy. The Commission received 175 answers to its questionnaires which, often critical to the CFP, have highlighted the main concerns of the fisheries sector and of the other interested groups with respect to the future of fisheries in the European Union. A report on the answers to the questionnaire was made available by the Commission in 1998. The second phase of the consultation process on the CFP after 2002, involved the organisation of 30 regional meetings in the Member States, with the participation of a wide range of interested parties (some 1500 participants attended the meetings).
The objective of these regional meetings was twofold:
First, to give an opportunity to the representatives of the fisheries sector and other interested groups in the Member States to engage themselves in a direct dialogue with the Commission’s services on the future of the CFP. Thus, participants were given the chance to elaborate on their answers to the questionnaire and to express their national/regional/local views on the review of the CFP in 2002, as well as on any other issue of particular interest to them.
Second, to allow the Commission’s officials to get a first hand contact with the various actors and their demands in all the Member States. The Commission needed to obtain the broadest possible range of views and proposals before the elaboration and submission to the Council and the European Parliament of its report on the fisheries situation in the European Union, as foreseen in Article 14(2) of Council Regulation n° 3760/92 establishing a Community system for fisheries and aquaculture.
Key Words: EU • European Union • European Commission • Common Fisheries Policy • Policy and Regulation • International Trade
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