Past Events

A meeting organized by the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee (STECF) Expert Working Groups (EWG) 15-11. The focus will be on impact assessments for Baltic Multi-species plan and cod plans in the Kattegat, North Sea, West of Scotland and Irish Sea. The meeting will be held on Nov 28, 2011  to Dec 2, 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. See the link below for more details.

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• Meeting Agenda

The Royal Academy for Forestry and Agriculture in Sweden will host an event discussing the CFP reform, with a particular focus on minimising bycatch and the Commission proposals for a discard ban. Speakers include Commissioner Damanaki, the Swedish agriculture Minister Eskil Erlandsson, and the chairs of the BS RAC and the NS RAC. The meeting will take place from 1230-1715 and will be conducted in Swedish, Norwegian and English, with no translation.

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• KSLA link (Swedish)
• Invitation (Swedish)

For more information download the agenda below.

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• PECH Information

The GAP (Conecting Science, Society and Policy) 'Kick off' meeting for the Herring Case Study will present a series of sessions and discussions with focus on Western Baltic herring. There will also be group discussion which will  take up two selected topics, namely, MSY as a concept and Management objectives for particular herring stocks. The aims of the meeting are to produce a set of Minutes and an outline for the continued work within the Case Study, including tentative plans for an upcoming Seminar in 2012. Please see the attched document for agenda and travel directions.  

One of the issues, which will be discussed during this council meeting includes the  external dimension issue. For more information please check the provisional agenda below.

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• Provisional Agenda

On Wednesday 9th November, a discussion workshop will be held (hosted by Chris Davies) on behalf of the Fish for the Future group, with contributions from Norwegian fisheries experts to explain the Norwegian experience of policies intended to ban discarding, highlighting the strengths and weakness of such polices and opening up the discussion as to how such experience could help to shape the proposals set forth by the Commission. A sandwich lunch will be provided from 12.00, with the discussion beginning at 12.30. Please register at the link below. Spaces are limited!

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• Registration

DG Mare is hosting a conference on the opportunities and first achievements of Axis 4 of the EFF.