FISHERIES; RIGHTS BASED MANAGEMENT TOOLS
(6889/07)
Letter from the Chairman to Ben Bradshaw
MP, Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare,
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Your Explanatory Memorandum on the above Communication
was examined by Sub-Committee D at its meeting of 28 March 2007.
We consider this subject of great interest and
we would therefore be grateful if you could send us more information
on the progress of the UK's Quota Management Change Programme,
to which you refer. It would be interesting to receive your views
on how this will feed in to the Commission's consultation process.
We are content to release the Communication
from scrutiny and look forward to your comments on the points
raised in this letter.
29 March 2007
Letter from Ben Bradshaw MP to the Chairman
Thank you for your letter of 29 March about
the Explanatory Memorandum on the Commission communication on
rights based management tools in fisheries.
In your letter you asked two questions, firstly
what progress has been made on the UK Quota Management Change
Programme (QMCP), and secondly how this will feed into the Commission's
consultation process.
In answer to your first point, Fisheries Administrations
are currently working on a final draft QMCP consultation document
which sets out proposals to improve quota management in the UK.
We expect to go out to consultation on those proposals in the
second half of 2007, with a view to introducing any changes (possibly
on a phased basis) from next year.
With regard to your second point, the work of
the QMCP has looked at how access to quota is managed both in
other Member States and countries worldwide. This work has directly
influenced the proposals in the draft consultation document, and
will inform our returns to the Commission when the consultation
process on their Communication is launched.
23 April 2007
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