Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

3:00 pm

Dr. Cecil Beamish:

No, there are different roles and responsibilities. The control framework is agreed at European level. The operational implementation of that is carried out by the SFPA in Ireland. It makes its reports which are freely available to the Oireachtas and so forth. All of that is absorbed as part of the data flow. Discussions are ongoing at the moment in relation to a new control regulation with a view to strengthening fisheries control further. Obviously as the Common Fisheries Policy evolves and as we move to the introduction of the discard ban or the landing obligation, there will be new control challenges associated with that initiative which will have to be addressed. It is not a static field.

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