NEAFC agreed to establish a Working Group on Allocation Criteria, which should help to address the contentious issue of how to share pelagic fish stocks that straddle several zones in the North-East Atlantic.

The parties agreed to allot some time at their annual meeting in November to develop recommendations on a framework for future coastal state negotiations on migratory pelagic stocks and redfish stocks in the North-East Atlantic.

NEAFC also agreed on several structural changes, including to its permanent committees.

NEAFC brings together the EU, Denmark in respect of the Faroe Islands and Greenland, Iceland, Norway and the Russian Federation.