Governance in the European Union: Policies

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

9 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/15/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

European union

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Summary :

Introduction.
General features of the common fisheries policy.
1. The 1983 council regulation.
2. Objectives of the policy.
3. The 1992 planned reform.
4. The creation of Regional Advisory Councils.
5. Three characteristic principles.
Liberal intergovernmental decision-making: fixing of TACs and quotas.
1. The example of the annual fixing of quotas and TACs.
2. The Council regulation.
3. The national preferences and the two factors.
The implication of environmental non-governmental organisations: A new form of decision-making?
1. The environmental consequences of the fisheries activities.
2. Spain as an important fishing country.
The analysis of the policy and its performance.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

The Common Fisheries Policy is one of the oldest policies entirely delegated to the european Community since it is part of the Common agricultural policy. Indeed, in the Treaty of Rome, agricultural products are defined as "the products of the soil, of stock-farming and of fisheries" (Art. 32 TEC). As a result, the fisheries policy has to follow the same objectives as the CAP, i.e. to increase productivity, to ensure a fair standard of living, to stabilise markets, to assure the availability of supplies and to ensure that supplies reach consumers at reasonable prices (Art. 33 TEC). However, if these objectives could be reached in agriculture through the creation of a common organisation of markets, in fisheries this would not have been enough. This is due to a certain specificity of the sector: it is based on common and mobile resources. It is obvious that certain species overlap territorial seas' limits and this biological fact explains why a supranational management of fisheries was needed, different from agriculture, and not only regulating a market but also the conditions of production . It is only in 1983 that a complete Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is launched...and immediately some controversies appeared.