Press Release: Joe Borg in Lisbon to address ministerial conference on eradicating illegal fishing

How the EU could make a crucial contribution to eliminating illegal fishing is the theme of a keynote address by European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Joe Borg, at the high level conference on eradicating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Lisbon, 29 October 2007. The Conference is hosted jointly by the Commission and the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union. It brings together EU Fisheries Ministers and Representatives with their counterparts from many of the most important EU's international fisheries partners from the North Atlantic and the Africa continent to discuss how to combat international trade in IUU fisheries products. This initiative follows on from the proposed Regulation and Communication on IUU fishing tabled by the Commission on 17 October (See IP/07/1507). The day's proceedings will end with the adoption of a ministerial declaration on eradicating IUU fishing.

European Commission: SPEECH/07/673: Joe Borg: A new approach by the EU against IUU fishing http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/673&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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