From 1 January 2014 the European Union will assume for one year the chairmanship of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS)...
"The European Commission regrets that, despite substantial progress, Parliament and Council could not agree on the few outstanding issues at the 19 December trialogue on the...
Some member states are struggling to meet their commitment to ratify international maritime conventions, according to a European Commission report (1) on compliance with flag state...
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting of December 2013 will take place in Brussels on 16-17 December 2013. The Commission will be represented by Maritime Affairs...
The votes of Tory MEPs today (10 December) saw the European Parliament narrowly fail to adopt a ban on deep-sea trawling. Labour MEPs supported the ban,...
The overall objective of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is to make fishing sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially. The new policy will bring fish...
The Commission takes note of the 10 December vote by the European Parliament on its proposal regulating fishing for deep-sea species in the North-East Atlantic. Maritime...