Working Group 1 EU Production

Chair: Sean O’Donoghue

• Common Markets Organisation and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (2014-2020).
• Evaluation of first sale trends.
• Impact of recovery plans on markets.
• No-commercialization of undersized fish/juveniles in the context of new technical measures regulation and discard ban implementation.
• Promotion and competitiveness of products.

Working Group 2 EU Markets

Chair: Andrew Kuyk

• Supply (annual status and trends).
• Trade with third countries: Community Custom Code, General System of Preferences (GSP), Free Trade Agreements, Economic Partnership Agreements, World Trade Organisation.
• Monitoring of community imports and tariff situation, regulation of suspension and tariff quotas for fishery and aquaculture products.
• Promoting social and environmental aspects of the international trade in fishery and aquaculture products.
• Analysis of consumption trends.
• Price developments ‘from sea to table’ (from the fisherman to the consumer) – Studying market efficiency and diversity in the Member States, inter alia, using data from EUMOFA.
• Effects of the IUU regulation on the market.

Working Group 3: EU control and sanitary issues, consumer rules

Chair: Benoît Thomassen

• Labelling issues
• Voluntary information on fish products
• Hygiene Regulation implementation
• Relevant contaminants legislation; additives and residues issues
• Traceability of seafood products
• Food fraud
• Implementation of IUU Regulation-issues other than tackled by WG2
• Possible revision and implementation of the Control Regulation when related to trade and markets