NAT commission adopts draft opinion on data collection in fisheries
The members of Commission for Natural Resources (NAT) of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) support the proposal of the European commission, request greater involvement for local and regional authorities.
The CoR draft opinion on data collection in fisheries with rapporteur Olgierd Geblewicz (PL/EPP) was adopted on 24/11/2015 during the 6th NAT commission meeting.
CoR rapporteur Geblewicz requests with his draft more competences for relevant European coastal and maritime regions and argues that collected data can be used as an important tool to develop the blue economy. The West Pomerania Province of Poland, of which Mr Geblewicz is president, enjoys more than 180 kilometres of coastline, and many families make a living directly from the fishing economy.
The legislative proposal of the European Commission, amending the data collection framework regulation , seeks to simplify the data collection procedure and enhance the scope of the regulation. CoR's draft supports the efforts of the European commission to achieve synergies with other policy fields and suggests various measures for effective management of collected data, including the use of data for the needs of European local and regional authorities.
Mr Geblewicz' opinion on data collection in fisheries will be discussed and voted at the CoR plenary session on 10-11 February 2016.