EU and Chile reach an amicable settlement to end WTO/ ITLOS swordfish dispute

Following four days of intensive negotiations, the EU and Chile reached a settlement to resolve the so-called "swordfish dispute" on the 26 January 2001 covering both access for EU fishing vessels to Chilean ports and bilateral and multilateral scientific and technical co-operation on conservation of swordfish stocks.

As a result and pending the ratification of this arrangement, the EU would request a suspension of panel proceedings within the WTO launched in November and Chile will suspend proceedings before the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), pending the enforcement of this arrangement which also covered access to ports.

• Primary Source

ESO: Key Source: Relations between Chile and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/relations-between-chile-and-the-european-union/

ESO: Background information: EU Commissioners Pascal Lamy and Franz Fischler go extra mile in attempt to reach amicable solution to swordfish dispute with Chile http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-commissioners-pascal-lamy-and-franz-fischler-go-extra-mile-in-attempt-to-reach-amicable-solution-to-swordfish-dispute-with-chile/

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