INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP – CALL FOR EU FISH AGENCY TO RECEIVE MORE POWERS
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has now formally opened its agency coordinating the policing of fishing rules in its member states' fishing fleets, amidst a call for it to receive more powers. At a formal launch ceremony for the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA) it its base in Vigo, Spain, a senior Spanish socialist MEP Rosa Miguélez Ramos said she hoped that "unlike previous [EU] agencies, it will extend its remit and its tasks". Notably, the agency does not have its own inspectors, cannot punish offenders and may not even force ...
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