The EC proposal for a European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) for the period 2014-2020 has been launched. The EMFF proposal covers technical assistance for fishing agreements and RFMOs: Article 91 of the proposal states that: ’The EMFF may support, at the initiative of the Commission, subject to the ceiling of 1.1% of this fund: (b) the implementation of sustainable fisheries agreements and the Union participation in regional fisheries management organisations’. In addition to this, an envelope is foreseen to cover Sustainable Fisheries Agreements and EU membership in International Organisations and Regional Fisheries Management Organisations, which have their own individual basic acts. The envelope for both actions amounts to EUR 968 million for the period 2014-2020. Annually, SFAs and RFMOs funding goes from 146 millions in 2014 to 136 millions in 2020.

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Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, 2 December 2011

In April 2005, the European Commission issued a proposal for a Council regulation ’establishing Community financial measures for the implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy and in the area of the Law of the Sea’.

The proposal will provide the necessary legal base for Community financing in the above mentioned areas of the CFP and the law of the sea, in the context of the new financial perspectives for the period 2007-2013. It will constitute the second pillar of the legal framework for the financing of the CFP alongside the proposal establishing the European Fisheries Fund (EFF).

CFFA commentary on the second financial instrument

NGOs position on the second financial instrument

CFFA commentary on the new EFF