Regulation (EU) 2025/2077

What it is

to introduce a targeted amendment to Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012 on certain measures for the purpose of the conservation of fish stocks in relation to countries allowing non-sustainable fishing. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: as provided in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 (UNCLOS) and in the United Nations Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks of 4 August 1995 (UNFSA), the management of certain shared, straddling and highly migratory fish stocks requires the cooperation of all the countries in whose waters the stock occurs and the countries whose fleets exploit that stock. The Committee on Fisheries adopted the report by Thomas BAJADA (S&D, MT) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012 concerning certain measures for the conservation of fish stocks with regard to countries authorising unsustainable fishing. As a reminder, the proposal constitutes a targeted amendment to Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012 and aims primarily to clarify, with the aim of increasing legal certainty, certain elements of the conditions for identifying a country as a country that authorises unsustainable fishing. The committee recommended that the European Parliament adopt its position at first reading by amending the Commission's proposal as follows: Members believe it is essential to strengthen the role of monitoring bodies within RFMOs. The proposed amendments aim to make RFMOs a genuine compliance tool in the EU's international fisheries governance strategy, harnessing their full potential to combat unsustainable fishing practices. M embers clarified the concept of ‘ failure to cooperate ’ : the failure of a third country to engage in good faith and have meaningful consultations with all the relevant coastal States and/or fishing parties, including within RFMOs, with a view to reaching an agreement on the adoption of necessary fishery management measures . E xamples of failure to cooperate include, but are not limited to: - undue delays in replying to requests or engaging in consultations; - unreasonable requests for information or actions to be taken, including unreasonable deadlines to reply or act; - consistently maintaining their own positions over an extended period, regardless of the flexibilities and concessions offered by other parties during the consultations; - adopting unreasonable and unjustified unilateral measures or quotas which are not in line with the measures or quotas agreed bilaterally or multilaterally; - implementing discriminatory measures that impact the fleets of third countries, while granting a partial or full exemption from those measures for their own fleet, leading to stocks being in an unsustainable state; - lack of…

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