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the Commission to establish a system
of access to resources that put the emphasis
on sustainability, discouraged
discards, simplified the technical measures,
eliminated discrimination and
excessive competition for stocks, introduced
the necessary flexibility, and
boosted the sector’s competitiveness.
It also stressed that any change to the
management system must necessarily
include compensation mechanisms
based on an assessment of the social
and economic impact of the proposal.
In another report on rights-based
management tools, the European
Parliament 11 invited the Commission
to study systems of rights-based management
(RBM) currently applied in the Member States, and
to evaluate their efficiency in terms of realising the aims of the
common fisheries policy. The Commission has published an
analysis of rights-based management instruments, which will
be one of the key topics in the forthcoming reform 12 . Policy
Department B organised a workshop on this subject 13 in September
2007.
11 T6-0113/2008, 10/04/2008.
12 MRAG et al., Part I: An analysis of existing Rights Based Management
(RBM) instruments in Member States and on setting up best practices
in the EU, Part II: Catalogue of Rights-Based Management Instruments in
coastal EU Member States. European Commission, 2009.
13 Bjørn Hersoug, Torbjorn Trondsen, (The Norwegian College of Fishery
Science, University of Tromsø); Luc van Hoof, Maud Evrard (Wageningen
UR IMARES); Thórólfur Matthiasson (University of Iceland), Rights based
management. European Parliament, 2007.
Another important topic in the context of the forthcoming
CFP reform will be governance and the part played in it by
the regional advisory councils. The Committee on Fisheries
adopted two reports 14, 15 on this subject.
Of the eight reports adopted by the Committee on Fisheries
on control and monitoring of fishing activities, particular importance
is to be attached to the report on the ‘Community
control regime to ensure compliance with the CFP rules (repeal
of Regulations (EEC) No 2847/93 and (EC) No 1627/94)’,
because it can be seen either as a bridge towards the future
CFP or as belated implementation of the 2002 reform. In fact,
14 T6-0159/2007, 26/04/2007.
15 A6-0187/2009, 27/03/2009.