Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and the Environment, welcomed the consensus reached by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to prepare a special report on climate change and oceans and the cryosphere (frozen bodies of water) during its 43rd session held in Nairobi between 11th and 13th April.
The European Commission today adopted a report on the implementation of the EU’s shark finning Regulation.
Fisheries were high on the agenda of European Parliament's plenary session on 12 April in Strasbourg, with three Parliament reports on the table.
Please be advised of the rescheduled dates for the sixth conference of the MSP stakeholder series, focusing on MSP Worldwide. Due to various reasons, the conference had to be slightly postponed. The conference is now confirmed to be held on 23 - 24 June 2016 at the University of the Azores, Ponte Delgada, Azores.
The international community has taken a first step in developing a legally-binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Karmenu Vella is at the Council of the European Union in Luxembourg today, presenting the Commission's proposed Regulation on technical measures to EU fisheries ministers. A proposed Regulation on data collection in the fisheries sector is also on the agenda.
Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Karmenu Vella is travelling to Algeria to discuss the need for a common strategy for the Mediterranean Sea.
The European Commission is investing over €7.5 million to boost innovation and create jobs in the marine and maritime sectors. The money is available under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and divided in calls for proposal focusing on the key areas where the European Union can have the biggest impact: skills, creativity and technology.
The North Sea is an economic maritime heavyweight in Europe and provides a huge potential for enhancing the blue economy and boosting the region’s competitiveness. Cooperation at sea-basin level has an essential role to play in building on this potential.
The sixth conference of the MSP stakeholder series, focussing on MSP Worldwide will be organised on 23-24 June 2016 by DG MARE in University of the Azores, Ponte Delgada, Azores.
Spring is at our doorstep and so is the European Maritime Day on 18-19 May, in Turku, Finland
The European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement on a multi-annual plan for cod, herring and sprat in the Baltic Sea at a trilogue meeting yesterday, following a European Commission proposal in 2014.
EU Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella, was at the Slovenian coast today, inaugurating landing facilities financed by the European Fisheries Fund. The visit also provided an opportunity to meet the Slovenian minister responsible for fisheries, Mr Dejan Židan, and to talk to representatives of the local fishing sector.
Commission delivers on Better Regulation agenda on fisheries. Why a new proposal? Three decades of stratified measures have led to a highly complex regulatory structure.
Today the European Commission, continuing to deliver on its commitment to Better Regulation, presented a proposal for new conservation measures for fisheries in European seas.
EU Commissioner for Environment, Maritime affairs and Fisheries Karmenu Vella, will participate at a Citizens' Dialogue with EU Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc in Ljubljana and attend the city's opening ceremony for European Green Capital 2016.
The European Commission is organising the first Blue Economy Business and Science Forum in Hamburg on 12 and 13 September. This Summit will gather together around 200 Blue Economy stakeholders who will be proposing solutions for boosting the European competitiveness in marine and maritime technologies, increasing collaboration between science and industrial sectors, demonstrating the value of innovative technologies, scaling them up and bringing them to the market.
The European Commission today adopted an action plan to boost fisheries control in the Netherlands.
The 15th session of the biannual meeting of the FAO Subcommittee on Fish Trade took place in Agadir (Morocco) from 22-25 February 2016. FAO members discussed topics of special significance to the foreign trade of fisheries, including catch document schemes, trade in fisheries services and traceability.
European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella, today met the heads of Europe's top marine research institutes in a bid to create new momentum in marine and ocean research.
