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ONTWERPRESOLUTIE (2026/2778(RSP))

Over de evaluatie van het gemeenschappelijk visserijbeleid en follow-up

B-10-2026-0389

namens de Verts/ALE-Fractie · Rapporteur: Isabella Lövin

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Parliament's resolution welcomes the Commission's 2026 evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and calls for stronger implementation, enforcement and governance. It reaffirms the CFP's goals, including the precautionary and ecosystem-based approaches, and says fish stocks have not recovered above levels producing maximum sustainable yield. It asks the Commission and member states to set annual fishing opportunities using the precautionary and ecosystem-based approaches, on the best available science. It calls on member states to allocate opportunities to low-impact, small-scale coastal fishing, to match fleet capacity to available opportunities, and to stop subsidies contributing to overfishing. It wants the landing obligation pursued through quota management, bycatch limits, selective gear, real-time closures and stronger controls, and calls for a fair, traceable EU market and a targeted review of the common market organisation. It demands an overarching EU ocean law making ecosystem and stock health legally binding priorities, with sectoral policies aligned to it.

Key points

  1. Welcomes the Commission's 2026 evaluation of the CFP and says it must lead to immediate stronger implementation, enforcement and improved governance.
  2. Reaffirms the CFP's pillars: ecological, economic and social sustainability, the precautionary and ecosystem-based approaches, science-based management, healthy stocks and a good environmental status.
  3. Notes that recovery of fish stocks above levels producing maximum sustainable yield, with a natural age and size structure, has not been achieved.
  4. Asks the Commission and member states to set annual fishing opportunities in line with the precautionary and ecosystem-based approaches, including risk-based reductions or closures.
  5. Insists policy decisions rest on the best available science, which should be ecosystem-based, cover multiple species and consider food-chain interactions.
  6. Calls on member states to prioritise low-impact fishing for direct human consumption, giving small-scale coastal fishing preferential access within the twelve-mile zone.
  7. Asks member states to align fleet capacity with available opportunities and ecosystem limits, end overfishing subsidies and adopt targeted, socially fair capacity measures.
  8. Says the landing obligation should be met using quota management tools, bycatch limits, selective gear, quota pools, real-time closures, quota exchanges and stronger controls.
  9. Calls on member states to fund control and enforcement, including catch limits agreed with non-EU countries, and warns that traditional controls risk inaccurate catch reporting.
  10. Urges the Commission and member states to apply Article 17 by using allocation to reward sustainable practices and improve small-scale access, with objective, transparent criteria.
  11. Regrets that regionalisation has not worked effectively and calls for a stronger regional approach with clearer responsibilities, faster procedures and participation of fishers and coastal communities.
  12. Says changing CFP rules will not fix overfishing and environmental damage, and that profitability depends on restoring stock health first; calls for a fair, traceable market and a targeted review of the common market organisation.

Who is affected

  • Member states: must set fishing opportunities, allocate them, align fleet capacity and fund control and enforcement.
  • Small-scale coastal fishers: would get priority for low-impact fishing and preferential access within the twelve-mile zone.
  • The Commission: asked to bring Article 17 into practice and to pursue an EU ocean law.
  • The fisheries and aquaculture market: would face more transparency, traceability, labelling requirements and equal standards for imports.

Figures and deadlines

  • "twelve-mile zone" — area where preferential access for small-scale coastal fishing is sought.

Legal basis: Articles 3, 4, 5, 11, 13, 38, 39, 43, 225 and 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.