Press Release: Refugee crisis: EU Fisheries Control Agency to help detect migrant boats

The European Parliament's fisheries commitee approved on 22 March 2016 a draft law updating the ECFA regulation. The proposal intends to empower this agency so it can use the data provided by its ship reporting systems to detect vessels carrying migrants. The text also allows the EFCA to conduct new types of operations to disrupt people smuggling routes.

The European Fisheries Control Agency centralises and coordinates EU member states’ fisheries inspections.

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ESO: Background information: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 establishing a Community Fisheries Control Agency http://www.europeansources.info/record/proposal-for-a-regulation-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-amending-council-regulation-ec-no-768-2005-establishing-a-community-fisheries-control-agency/

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