EU cannot turn a blind eye to imports that don’t meet the same standards as domestic products, insists fishing industry body

The European Commission’s new public consultation on the import of fishery products under the EU Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ) Regulationpresents a unique opportunity to transform the duty-free regime and align it with the bloc’s environmental, social and food sovereignty objectives and ultimately help achieve a level playing field in the market, according to Europêche, with the European fishing industry body buoyed by the Commission looking to potentially incorporate sustainability criteria for imported products to benefit from tariff derogations.