Press Release: The Commission proposes autonomous tariff quotas for some fisheries products

The European Commission has tabled a proposal for autonomous Community tariff quotas for a number of fisheries products. This proposal, which covers the period 2007-2009, is aimed at facilitating imports from third countries to supply the EU processing industry with raw material in order to maintain its competitiveness. The main changes compared to the 2004-2006 regime include increases of some quotas such as those for cod, shrimps and anchovies, the introduction of new quotas for fillets of cod, sole and hake for example, and deletion of some quotas such as cod liver and whole Alaska Pollack due to their poor utilisation.