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The EPP wants the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) to be reformed and adapted to current challenges such as decarbonisation and generational renewal.
The European Parliament voted on a report on the future of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The text stresses the need to rebalance the different objectives of the CFP by strengthening the socio-economic and food security dimension of the CFP and ensuring that European fishermen remain internationally competitive.
"The fisheries and aquaculture sectors play a strategic role in ensuring food security, the European Green Deal and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet the current CFP does not sufficiently take into account socio-economic and food supply aspects," says Gabriel Mato, MEP for the EPP Group, who drafted the Parliament's report.
The report calls for an assessment and possible reform of the CFP to adapt to new challenges. "The fisheries sector and the entire seafood value chain have experienced several unprecedented challenges since the adoption of the CFP in 2013, including Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic and the energy crisis. The current CFP does not provide sufficient tools to ensure the resilience and competitiveness of the sector and therefore needs to be reformed to adapt to new challenges," says Mato.
The text also stresses the importance for the CFP of incorporating regional traditions while working closely with stakeholders such as guilds and fraternities, and calls on the next European Commission to have a Commissioner dedicated exclusively to fisheries.
EDITOR'S NOTE
The EPP is the largest political group/faction in the European Parliament, with 179 MEPs from all EU Member States.
Eppeurope.eu/gnews.cz/JaV_07
https://www.eppgroup.eu/newsroom/make-europe-s-fisheries-fit-for-the-future
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