EC Proposes Administrative Penal Sanctions for Fishing Violations Presaging Additional Area of Direct Penal Enforcement Sanctions

To remedy difficulties in the enforcement of the European Community’s common fisheries policy, an EC report of the European Commission published on March 16 on the surveillance of the EC’s CFP proposes to strengthen the authority of EC inspectors, the increase in punishments for overfishing and other violations of the CFP. The significance of the proposal lies in the expansion of administrative penal sanctions of the EC to an additional area – enforcement of fisheries overfishing…[more]