The Community Fisheries Control Agency has adopted a budget of €9.31m for 2012, subject to adoption by the Budgetary Authority in the coming weeks.
The CFCA has also adopted its sixth work programme for 2012, along with electing Jörgen Holmquist, an economist from Sweden, as the new Chairman of the Administrative Board. Mr Holmquist was previously the Director General of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs and Director General of Internal Market and Services of the European Commission.
In 2012, the Agency will carry on doing the coordination work it has been doing in important fisheries such as cod in the Baltic Sea and in the North Sea and Western Waters; bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic, Pelagic in Western Waters and NAFO and NEAFC Regulatory Area. In addition, it will progressively extend this cooperation to regional joint deployment plans based on multispecies, and it will continue to support the fight against IUU fishing.
The Agency will also assist the Commission and Member States in the cooperation with third countries within the JDP areas. In addition, the JDP for pelagic fisheries in Western Waters of the North East Atlantic will continue.
In helping to build the control and inspection capacities of Member States, the Agency will facilitate the elaboration of core curricula for training of national fisheries inspectors, promote the exchange of best practices and develop harmonised standards of inspection. It will also foster Integrated Maritime Surveillance in cooperation with the European Commission, Member States and other EU agencies.
