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Technical Meeting with GFCM Contracting Parties control authorities

On Thursday, 16 March 2017, the EFCA welcomed representatives of the control authorities of different GFCM Contracting Parties, namely Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and the European Commission, Italy and Malta, assisted with the GFCM secretariat who are participating in a two-day Technical Meeting (16 – 17 May 2017) in the EFCA offices in Vigo, Spain. 

Joint Workshop on landing obligation in the Baltic Sea

Fisheries control authority delegates from the Baltic Sea Member States (Baltfish, chaired by Germany), the Baltic Sea Advisory Council (BSAC), representatives from the European Commission (DG Mare), a member of the European Parliament and representatives from the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) met in Hamburg on 9th March 2017 at a Joint Workshop to examine the state of play for the implementation of the landing obligation with respect to the major commercial species of the Baltic Sea: cod, salmon, herring, sprat and plaice.

The Committee on Fisheries of the European Parliament visit EFCA

Mr Werner Kuhn, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) of the European Parliament, has visited the European Agency for Fisheries Control (EFCA) for a two-day meeting (20-21 February 2017). The delegation included a group of parliamentary representatives formed by Mr José Blanco, Ms Norica Nicolai and Mr Marco Affronte, Mr Francisco Millán, Ms Lidia Senra, as well as advisors from the political groups.

The EU Agencies save national administrations up to €200 million of public money

The EU Agencies Network, a representative body for the 45 Agencies and Joint Undertakings, presented today at the European Parliament two new studies on the economic and political impact of the agencies in the European Union. According to these studies, the EU Agencies represent less than 0.8% of the EU’s annual budget and could save up to €200 million in costs to national administrations.

The works to paint the mural sponsored by EFCA in collaboration with the City Hall of Vigo have started

As previously announced during the celebration of Europe Day, the European Fisheries Control Agency is sponsoring a mural, which main purpose is to highlight the importance of ocean sustainability, in collaboration with the programme of urban art launched by the City Hall of Vigo. The latter is contributing to the project by providing the materials, assembly and machinery.

World Oceans Day

To mark the celebration of the international World Oceans Day, held every year on 8 of June, the agency organised an internal photo contest. The theme of the competition was "Wonders of the Oceans". The photo collage below reflects an arbitrary selection of photos from the finalists of the EFCA Photo Contest 2016.

EFCA Additional Board meeting: Contribution to the EU Coast Guard & new technologies for fighting IUU fishing activities

During its additional meeting of 21 June 2016 the EFCA Administrative Board exchanged views on the EFCA contribution to the future Europe Border and Coast Guard and adopted some amendments to the Annual Work Programme and budget 2016 to include two pilot projects regarding the “Creation of a European Coastguard function” and “new maritime surveillance technologies for fighting the IUU activities”.