Past Events

OCEAN2012 together with BirdLife International, Greenpeace, Oceana and WWF are meeting Commissioner Damanaki ahead of the trilogue negotiations. The purpose of the meeting is to highlight to the Commissioner the NGO priorities and to advocate that these priorities do not get lost in the final text agreed during the negotiations.

The Conference Programme will set the scene for high level discussion in a professional environment, covering expert knowledge on various aspects: position of the EU Institutions regarding marine litter and blue growth, how to improve the plastic waste collection, future equipment, regional plans to face the problem, ongoing projects and assistance to the countries. All participants and speakers are invited to join the lunch which provides perfect networking opportunities. The lunch is included in the conference package.

The aquaculture resources group meeting will take place and is chaired by Goulven Brest. The 21 members represent the main branches of the industry – production, processing and trade, in both fisheries and aquaculture as well as consumer groups and organisations dealing with environmental protection and development.

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The  OCEAN2012 steering group member Pew is holding a two-day workshop on fleet capacity assessment under a future CFP at the PEW office.  The workshop is for experts and the objective is to establish a methodology for the assessment of fleet capacity in order to identify and assess the extent of any overcapacity and its type and the most adequate policy responses.    

ComFish, an EU project focused on communication in fisheries, will be hosting a broad range of stakeholders at their preparatory meeting. The meeting objectives are to: Bring together various fisheries stakeholders to identify challenges and issues related to “mixed fisheries” including management. Suggest possible solutions and the necessary steps to undertake in order to overcome these challenges both now and in the future. Discover whether all the stakeholders are aware of pertinent scientific information that could enlighten parts of the discussions.

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• ComFish background information

Discussions concerning the CFP reform will take place, with the Council finalising its position on key issues ahead of the opening of trialogue negotiations on 18 March.

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The meeting will take place in the Danish parliament.

Agenda forthcoming. An exchange of views of amendments to the Cadec (EPP, FR) report on the CFP European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) will take place.