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SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 10. What happens if there is no agreement?
As a result, there are challenges to ensuring that collective fishing efforts are sustainable in the absence of agreement with all other fishing states.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 8.4 EU- Greenland Fisheries Relations
This new agreement does not fundamentally alter the system for allocating fishing opportunities to EU vessels and the level of access is still determined through an additional protocol.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 8.2 EU- Faroes Fisheries Relations
In determining these fishing possibilities, each Party shall take into account:
(i) the habitual catches of both Parties,
(ii) the need to minimise difficulties for both Parties in the case where fishing possibilities would be reduced,
(iii) all other relevant factors.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - Executive Summary
The UK is subject to several commitments to fish sustainably and protect marine ecosystems.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 6.5 Monitoring, control and enforcement of fishing vessels
6.5 Monitoring, control and enforcement of fishing vessels
A standard set of provisions in existing EU fisheries agreements underline that the fishing vessels of one party fishing in the waters of the other party should comply with the latter’s laws and regulations and the la...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 1. Background: the Common Fisheries Policy and Brexit
New powers to Scotland and sustainable fishing at the heart of new Bill. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-powers-to-scotland-and-sustainable-fishing-at-the-heart-of-new-bill" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-powers-to-scotland-and-sustainable-fishing-at-the-heart-of-new-bill</a> [accessed 1 April 2020] of its waters at the end of the transition period.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 3.2 The Political Declaration and the future fisheries relationship
It made two key points with regards to fishing:
that "the European Council will demonstrate particular vigilance ... to protect fishing enterprises and coastal communities."
that "a fisheries agreement ... should build on, inter alia, existing reciprocal access and quota shares."
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 6.1 Shared Values and Principles
Given that both the UK and the EU have stated that they are committed to ensuring that any fishing partnership should seek to ensure the sustainable management of stocks (see above), a new fisheries agreement could provide an opportunity to agree on the principles which should inform decision-making.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 6. Elements of a Future UK-EU Fisheries Agreement
However, like most other fisheries agreements, any UK-EU fisheries agreement is likely to be a framework agreement, which does not contain detailed rules for the regulation of fishing and the exchange of fishing opportunities.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 April 2020
UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations: Fisheries - 6.2 Process for agreeing on quota and other conservation and management measures in relation to transboundary stocks
Whilst the EU has indicated its desire to “uphold stable quota shares” (EU Negotiating mandate, para. 89), the UK has made clear, both in its White Paper on Sustainable Fisheries and in its February 2020 document outlining the UK’s Approach to Negotiations that:
The UK will no longer accept the ‘relative stability’ mechanism for sharing fishing quotas [and] future fishing opportunities should be based on the principle of zonal attachment, which better reflects where the fish live, and is the basis for the EU’s fisheries agreement with Norway.1UK Government. (2020, February).
