Speeches
Maritime affairs
A strategy for the Atlantic
28/11/2011
Lisbon Atlantic Conference - Commissioner Damanaki presented the new maritime strategy for growth and jobs in the Atlantic Ocean area at the high-level Lisbon Atlantic Conference. The strategy, just adopted by the European Commission, identifies challenges and opportunities in the region and takes stock of existing initiatives that can support growth and job creation. The new strategy is developed under the EU's Integrated Maritime Policy and follows similar strategies for the Baltic, the Arctic and the Mediterranean areas.
Maritime affairs and fisheries
The fishermen as guardians of the sea
08/11/2011
"Waste-Free Oceans" initiative, Oostende
Commissioner Maria Damanaki was today at the Oostende harbor, where Belgian fishermen collected marine litter as part of the event organized in the framework of the Waste Free Oceans initiative.
Commissioner Damanaki took the opportunity to renew her commitment to support innovative solutions for the issue of marine litter and encourage this European initiative, which brings together industry, scientists and fishermen with the aim of reducing floating marine debris on Europe’s coastlines. The initiative aims at engaging Europe’s fishing community in cleaning up floating marine debris and bring it back to land for recycling and sorting.
Fisheries
Discards – the way forward in the European Union
23/11/2011
Seminar "Renewal of the EU Fisheries Policy – minimised bycatch and ban on discards" (Stockholm) - Commissioner Damanaki spoke on the phasing out of discards at the conference "Renewal of the EU Fisheries Policy – minimised by-catch and ban on discards" at the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences, where she also held a press conference with Minister for Rural Affairs Mr Eskil Erlandson and Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs Ms Lisbeth Berg-Hansen. Among the issues under discussion were the views of Sweden on practical aspects of discards and the importance of discards in Norwegian fishing.
How do we choose our fish?
15/11/2011
Commissioner Damanaki presented the proposal for a reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy at the Relais & Châteaux Congress, in Lisbon.
The External Dimension of the new Common Fisheries Policy
14/11/2011
Commissioner Maria Damanaki presented the proposals regarding the external dimension of the Common Fisheries Policy reform, at the EU Council of Ministers, in Brussels.
The reform of the Common Fisheries Policy
09/11/2011
Commissioner Maria Damanaki discussed the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy at the conference "Fishy business – Time to reform EU fisheries policy?", in Brussels.
