Report | August 23, 2022

Joint NGO feedback to the European Commission on the Common Fisheries Policy’s state of play and orientations for 2023

The current Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) Basic Regulation entered into force on 1 January 2014. It contains ambitious objectives and concrete timelines to put the European Union at the forefront of global fisheries management and make European fisheries economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable. However, although some progress has been made, in particular in Northeast Atlantic waters, the EU is still far from reaching its overdue legal obligation to harvest all stocks sustainably by 2020.