Official Journal
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Official Journal |
EN C series |
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C/2026/4659 |
23.9.2026 |
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2107 laying down management, conservation and control measures applicable in the Convention area of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), Regulation (EU) 2018/975 laying down management, conservation and control measures applicable in the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) Convention Area, Regulation (EU) 2019/833 laying down conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation, Regulation (EU) 2021/56 laying down management, conservation and control measures applicable in the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Convention area, Regulation (EU) 2022/2056 laying down conservation and management measures applicable in the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Area, Regulation (EU) 2022/2343 laying down management, conservation and control measures applicable in the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) Area of Competence, and Regulation (EU) 2023/2053 establishing a multiannual management plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean
(COM(2026) 198 final – 2026/0111(COD))
(C/2026/4659)
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Referral |
Council, 22.5.2026 Parliament, 29.5.2026 |
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Legal basis |
Articles 43(2) and 304 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union |
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Section responsible |
Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment |
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Adopted at plenary session |
17.6.2026 |
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Plenary session No |
606 |
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Outcome of vote (for/against/abstentions) |
201/0/2 |
Since the Committee has already set out its views on the content of the proposal in question in its opinions:
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Amendment to regulations concerning international fisheries (NAFO, SPRFMO, IOTC, WCPFC, IATTC and ICCAT) (1), adopted on 16.7.2025, |
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Fisheries – NAFO (2), adopted on 15.6.2023, |
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Conservation and enforcement measures – NAFO (3), adopted on 24.3.2022, |
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Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) (4), adopted on 15.6.2022, |
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Bluefin tuna catch documentation (5), adopted on 27.1.2021, |
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Fisheries – transposition of IATTC measures (6), adopted on 2.12.2020, |
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Conservation and enforcement measures – NAFO (7), adopted on 18.9.2020, |
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Multiannual management plan for bluefin tuna (8), adopted on 7.5.2020, |
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Conservation and control measures in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (9), adopted on 23.1.2019, |
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Conservation of Atlantic tunas (10), adopted on 19.10.2016, |
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Fishing Authorisations (11), adopted on 25.5.2016, |
it decided not to draw up a new opinion on the subject, but to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned documents.
Brussels, 17 June 2026.
The President
of the European Economic and Social Committee
Séamus BOLAND
(1) OJ C, C/2025/5154, 28.10.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/5154/oj.
(2) OJ C 293, 18.8.2023, p. 144.
(3) OJ C 290, 29.7.2022, p. 149.
(4) OJ C 365, 23.9.2022, p. 55.
(5) OJ C 123, 9.4.2021, p. 72.
(6) OJ C 56, 16.2.2021, p. 59.
(7) OJ C 429, 11.12.2020, p. 279.
(8) OJ C 232, 14.7.2020, p. 36.
(9) OJ C 159, 15.5.2019, p. 60.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/4659/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)