Conference Room 01, Scottish Government Victoria Quay, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ
Agenda Horizontal Working Group - Landing Obligation, 7th July 2016
Minutes Horizontal Working Group on the Landing Obligation, Edinburgh, 7th July 2016
Meeting presentation
Item 1. Previous meeting (2 February 2016)
Item 2. NWW Member State Group meetings and NWWAC Advice NWWAC Advice Drafting Group on the Landing Obligation 9-10 May 2016 NWWAC Advice on the implementation of the demersal Landing Obligation in 2017
Item 3. Presentation of the Member State Control Expert Group Final Report on recommended measures to achieve compliance with the landing obligation in NWW
Item 5. Solutions for choke species Discard Plan 2017 Joint Recommendation of the North Western Waters MS Group Discussion document “Chokes needn’t be a problem”
Item 6. Phasing for 2018 List of stocks under TAC management in NWW
Presentations given at the Access to Quota workshop (Edinburgh 14-15 April 2016):
1 – UK – North Sea Hake
2 – UK – Spurdog
3 – Spain – By-Catch Quotas and Others Quotas
4 – NSAC – Work on Choke Species
5 – Germany – Quota Management and the Landing Obligation
Discussion papers provided by Spain:
1 – Interspecies Flexibility for pelagic species
2 – By-catch management
Discard studies conducted by France:
1 – COBRENORD PO – June 2014 till December 2015 – impact assessment of the Landing Obligation on offshore bottom trawlers
2 – CRPMEM – EODE pilot study in Eastern Channel and North Sea- effects of Landing Obligation – fishermen-fleet-shore infrastructure (French only)