Heikki Lehtinen Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 5

Heikki Lehtinen Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 5 years in P. R. in Brussels Central and regional fisheries and environment offices

’No fishery, not even leisure fishery, will be unregulated’ Commissioner Maria Damanaki Fishing News International, March 2010

Peek to recent history • Recreational fishery relatively modestly regulated in EU • Details here and there, Member States in a key role • Almost ’no policy’ being the policy • Unchartered waters

Winds of Change • Very recent development indicates policy steps being taken • Management measures for eel • New fisheries control basic regulation and it’s very original approach • Maritime policy 2007 • Situation of the fish stocks • Commission as an institution

Conclusion: • Recreational fisheries will face the challenge of a deeper and wider policy approach at the EU level

Policy questions: • Who will tailor the policy and the measures • What is the information basis • What are the motives • Making, shaping, accepting, swallowing, implementing the policy

Current or remote? • Co-decision (rule the roost) • 5 -year legislative programme • New emerging committee architecture • Reform of the CFP

Operational question: • Who are your men or women in Brussels in - Commission - Council - European Parliament - Other institutions

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