#22026D1074EU-UK Fisheries Monitoring and Control Arrangement
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This recommendation supports a joint EU-UK arrangement for monitoring, control and surveillance in fisheries. It is aimed at improving cooperation between control authorities, especially where EU and UK fishing vessels operate in each other’s waters. The arrangement focuses on practical cooperation: sharing operational information, handling mutual assistance requests, managing risks, exchanging officials, training fisheries inspectors, and planning annual control work. Fishing operators should expect closer coordination between EU and UK authorities on compliance checks and enforcement against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
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Key Changes
- Creates a framework for closer EU-UK cooperation on fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance
- Encourages exchange of operational information, mutual assistance and risk management between control authorities
- Supports joint training, exchanges of officials and annual planning of fisheries control activities
Obligations
What this law requires
EU and UK fisheries control authorities should cooperate operationally on monitoring, control and surveillance where EU and UK fishing vessels operate in each other’s waters.
EU and UK control authorities should exchange relevant operational information to support fisheries monitoring, control, enforcement, and uptake of fishing opportunities.
EU and UK control authorities should process and respond to mutual assistance requests relating to fisheries control and enforcement cooperation.
EU and UK control authorities should use risk management procedures to support coordinated fisheries control activities and enforcement against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
EU and UK authorities should organise exchanges of officials and joint training or seminars for fisheries inspectors to improve control cooperation.