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Final <strong>Report</strong>
RoO Derogation under the PACP-IEPA
• The ongoing (and potential increase) of government subsidies to support domestic fishing
industries and national consumption, especially with the likely collapse of proposed fisheries
subsidies disciplines under the Doha Round at the WTO.
• The growing importance of environmental sustainability policies and awareness, especially
among retailers and consumers of fish in Northern Europe, which may result in continued
shifts in emphasis on fishing methods. The largest potential development here is the recent
MSC certification of the PNA purse seine skipjack fishery.
Note that trade volumes and values do not capture species composition of product because EU
trade data do not effectively capture this. 308 As such, as per Section 6.1, markets are characterised as
being predominantly either canned yellowfin or canned skipjack.
6.8.1 Projecting PNG exports: data and assumptions
The following discusses current and potential future impacts on the EU Distant Water Fleet and,
respectively, EU-based and third country processors and their markets within the EU. Each of these
three sets of players is assessed according to two time-frames of impacts:
1. From March 2008 to present (i.e. from when PNG first notified the EU under the PACP-EU
IEPA Protocol II, Article 6.6(b), triggering the three-year review clause in the derogation, of
which this study is a part (see Section 2)).
2. In the medium term (to 2016), selected as a period of time where some reasonable
assumptions around potential PNG exports could be developed (see Table 6.11 which is
based upon Table 3.13).
The medium-term scenario is based upon a realistic interpretation of planned increases in
production and export strategies by existing and planned processing facilities in PNG for 2016. It
forms the basis for the quantitative components of the following analysis of medium-term market
and industry impacts of the derogation.
The total estimated raw material throughput requirements for the PNG export scenario in Table 6.11
are 182,500 mt (or ~113,150 mt for canned tuna and 69,350 mt for tuna loins). This estimate of raw
material needs is for all markets, including domestic sales and other export markets (e.g. the US),
and does not equate to total raw material used in processed exports to the EU.
308 HS codes do formally differentiate between types and species of products, but it is believed that they are
not universally applied by customs authorities to differentiate between species. (See note to Table 6.4.)
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