Common use of Fisheries cooperation Clause in Contracts

Fisheries cooperation. 1. With a view to developing and promoting cooperation with regard to fisheries, in accordance with the provisions of Part III of this Agreement, the Parties undertake to: (a) collaborate with a view to sustainable development of the fish resources of the West African region and apply the precautionary principle when determining the sustainable level of catches and defining the conditions for access to fish resources that must be observed to avoid overexploitation of stocks and any negative impact on the environment and the ecosystem; (b) promote the improvement of the supply capacity and competitiveness of fishery products. The European Union therefore undertakes to help the Member States of the region to meet the needs arising from the application of SPS measures and to develop the regional market for fishery products; (c) promote investment and access to funding to increase the productivity of fishery enterprises in the region; (d) collaborate with a view to the sustainable management of small-scale fisheries and the preparation and implementation of a policy for the development of aquaculture in West Africa; (e) draw up and propose minimum measures to be observed by vessels, in order to improve the monitoring, control and surveillance of their activities; (f) coordinate efforts to enhance the means for preventing, discouraging and eliminating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF) and for taking appropriate measures for this purpose. In this regard, the Parties undertake to take any necessary measures to end IUUF and prevent its continuation, without prejudice to any other action they consider appropriate; (g) establish a vessel monitoring system (VMS) for all of West Africa, with all the West African States using a compatible VMS; in addition to an obligatory compatible VMS, all of West Africa, together with the European Union Party, undertakes to develop other arrangements to ensure effective monotoring, control and surveillance policies; (h) lighten traceability and certification procedures and conditions for fishery products exported from the region to the market of the European Union; (i) improve and reinforce fishery control, surveillance and monitoring mechanisms and arrangements in order to combat IUUF, including the adoption of minimum measures to be observed by vessels to permit the monitoring, control and surveillance of their activities; (j) authorise the taking of appropriate protection measures based on scientific recommendations and after having consulted the various interested parties, including the European Union, if there is a danger of the sustainable management of fish and aquatic resources of the region being compromised; (k) strengthen scientific research into the state of fish resources in the West African region; (l) improve and reinforce the information system and the system for processing fishery statistics, concerning migratory species in particular; (m) strengthen cooperation in all areas of common interest with regard to fisheries.

Fisheries cooperation. 1. With a view to developing and promoting cooperation with regard to fisheries, in accordance with the provisions of contained in Part III of this AgreementIII, the Parties undertake to: (a) collaborate with a view to sustainable development of the fish resources of the West African region and apply the precautionary principle when determining the sustainable level of catches and defining the conditions for access to fish resources that must be observed to avoid overexploitation of stocks and any negative impact on the environment and the ecosystem; (b) promote the improvement of the supply capacity and competitiveness of fishery products. The European Union therefore undertakes to help the Member States of the region to meet the needs arising from the application of SPS sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and to develop the regional market for fishery products; (c) promote investment and access to funding to increase the productivity of fishery enterprises in the region; (d) collaborate with a view to the sustainable management of small-scale fisheries and the preparation and implementation of a policy for the development of aquaculture in West Africa; (e) draw up and propose minimum measures to be observed by vessels, in order to improve the monitoring, control and surveillance of their activities; (f) coordinate efforts to enhance the means for preventing, discouraging and eliminating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF) and for taking appropriate measures for this purpose. In this regard, the Parties undertake to take any necessary measures to end IUUF illegal fishing and prevent its continuation, without prejudice to any other action they consider appropriate; (g) establish a vessel monitoring system (VMS) for all of West Africa, with all the West African States using a compatible VMS; ; h) in addition to an obligatory compatible VMS, all of West Africa, together with the European Union Party, undertakes to develop other arrangements to ensure effective monotoring, control and surveillance policies; (hi) lighten traceability and certification procedures and conditions for fishery products exported from the region to the market of the European Union; (i) improve and reinforce fishery control, surveillance and monitoring mechanisms and arrangements in order to combat IUUF, including the adoption of minimum measures to be observed by vessels to permit the monitoring, control and surveillance of their activities; (j) authorise the taking of appropriate protection measures based on scientific recommendations and after having consulted the various interested parties, including the European Union, if there is a danger of the sustainable management of fish and aquatic resources of the region being compromised; (k) strengthen scientific research into the state of fish resources in the West African region; (l) improve and reinforce the information system and the system for processing fishery statistics, concerning migratory species in particular; (m) strengthen cooperation in all areas of common interest with regard to fisheries.