European Parliament · 17 October 2023

Implications of Chinese fishing operations on EU fisheries and the way forward

Adopted

573 in favour · 11 against · 30 abstained. 614 members voted.

What it asks for, in the Parliament's words

• Calls on the Commission to assess all Chinese initiatives aimed at combating IUU fishing, and in the light of such assessments, to take appropriate actions under the IUU Regulation
• Welcomes the Agreement reached in the UN on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, and urges the EU and China to ratify it and bring it into effect

Quoted from A9-0282/2023, which says more than these lines. Each is a whole paragraph; this site does not rewrite them.

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