The Edinburgh Europa Research Group hosted a symposium on External Challenges for the Common Fisheries Policy on 11 May 2018.
UPDATES
You can find photos from the symposium on our facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/EdinEuropaRG/
The symposium will be joined by Eva van der Marel as a third discussant of the IUU Panel and Prof Volterra will not manage to attend, instead his co-author, Emmanuel will present their paper. Finally, Dr Eva Kassoti will not be able to attend and her co-author, Mihail, will present their paper.
The symposium has officially been confirmed as an European Maritime Day 2018 event! #EMD2018
The official hashtag of the event is #XtrnlChallengesCFP. Here is the facebook event page of the symposium – https://www.facebook.com/events/162465187736092/
The venue of the symposium is now set – Screening room at 50 George Square
The Brexit panel has changed to feature Christopher Huggins who will present a paper on Brexit and the future of UK fisheries governance: learning lessons from Iceland, Norway and the Faroe Islands
The Edinburgh Europa Research Group is proud to announce that it will host a symposium on External Challenges for the Common Fisheries Policy on 11 May 2018 at the University of Edinburgh. The symposium will include both (early career and established) scholars and practitioners and will seek to provide the broadest range of insights into the important issues to be discussed.
Background
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is one of the major policies of the EU. Yet it undeservedly receives comparatively little attention in the academic literature. The same applies to many, albeit not all (e.g. Fisheries access agreements and practice in Regional Fisheries Management Organisations), aspects of its external dimension . The EU is a major international actor in the area of fisheries. It has the largest seafood market in the world and vessels flying its flag fish all around the world. As such, the EU’s interests in the area of fisheries span across the globe. The wide scope of the EU’s interests is also dictated by the interconnected and environment-dependent nature of the fisheries. At the heart of the fisheries-related law of the sea developments since the 1970s is deepening the cooperation between fishing entities. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) also observed early-on in the Kramer case that “[t]he only way to ensure the conservation of the biological resources of the sea both effectively and equitably is through a system of rules binding on all the States concerned, including non-member countries”. Accordingly, the EU has developed and keeps developing its CFP in close contact with relevant international developments. This symposium will focus on the interactions between the CFP and the international developments in the area of fisheries. In particular, it will explore certain external challenges standing before the CFP as the panels below demonstrate.
Programme of the symposium
The symposium will be divided in four panels:
Panel I: The Brexit challenge
Chair: Cleo Davis (The University of Edinburgh)
Brexit and the future of UK fisheries governance: learning lessons from Iceland, Norway and the Faroe Islands
Christopher Huggins (University of the West of Scotland)
Ireland, the Common Fisheries Policy and Brexit: A Unique Lens on Anglo-Irish Relations
Ciarán O’Driscoll (Irish Maritime Development Office)
The International Legal Framework for Post-Brexit Fisheries Access Relations between the European Union and the United Kingdom
Valentin Schatz (University of Trier)
Discussants: Dr James Harrison (The University of Edinburgh) and Prof Dr Hubert Zimmermann (Philipps-University of Marburg)
Panel II: The challenge of IUU fishing
Chair: Dr James Harrison (The University of Edinburgh)
What’s in a duty? Third country legislative responses to the non-cooperating identification procedure of the EU’s IUU Regulation
Arron Honniball (University of Utrecht)
The duplicity of the European Union Common Fishery Policy, evidence from the Gulf of Guinea
Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood (King’s College London)
Spain’s Action to Control and Suppress Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
Prof Dr Gabriela Oanta (University of A Coruña)
Discussants: Daniel Owen (Barrister at Fenners Chambers) and Prof Dr Richard Barnes (University of Hull)
Panel III: Challenges in accessing EU waters
Chair: Richard Tepper (The University of Edinburgh)
Regulating Fisheries in Northern Cyprus: Limitations to the Suspension of the EU Acquis
Emmanuel Giakoumakis (Volterra Fietta)
A Missed Opportunity? Unilateral Declarations by the EU and the ECJ’s Venezuelan Fisheries judgment
Mihail Vatsov (The Hague University of Applied Sciences; The University of Edinburgh)
The application of the Regulation on the Common Fisheries Policy on the territory of the Member States Slovenia and Croatia according to the Final Award in Arbitration under the PCA Arbitration
Suzana Pecin (University of Ljubljana)
Discussants: Daniel Owen (Barrister at Fenners Chambers) and Prof Dr Robin Churchill (University of Dundee)
Panel IV: Challenges in accessing foreign waters
Chair: Mihail Vatsov (The University of Edinburgh)
The Common Fisheries Policy, the Right to Self-Determination and the Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources
Anne-Carlijn Prickartz (University of Salzburg)
The “Snow Crab Row” as a Challenge to the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union
Robert Steenkamp (University of Trier)
The EU and Global Fisheries Governance through SFPAs and RFMOs: New Challenges
Prof Dr Hubert Zimmermann (Philipps-University of Marburg)
Discussants: Prof Dr Robin Churchill (University of Dundee) and Prof Dr Richard Barnes (University of Hull)
Attendance
The attendance of the symposium as part of the audience will be on an invitation-only basis due to limited spaces. If you are interested in attending the symposium please write to us at europaresearchgroup@ed.ac.uk and tell us your institution and how many invitations you would request.
* Fishing boat picture by Hernán Piñera used under Creative Commons license.
Cleo Davies, Mihail Vatsov (symposium organiser) & Richard Maturana
Europa Research Group Co-Convenors