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Latest News from MegaPesca FishFiles The European Commission has adopted new guidelines on "State Aid" to the fisheries sector, applicable from 1 April 2008, which set the rules on the amount and type of subsidies which EU Member States can grant to their own fishery sectors. The new rules will allow Member States to provide subsidies for most of the measures included in the European Fisheries Fund (ie. Community Subsidies) except for the replacement of engines and fishing gear. They will allow compensation for damages caused by natural disasters, exceptional occurrences or even bad weather events. They may take the form of tax relief and labour related costs for EU vessels fishing for tuna and tuna-like species outside EU waters and beyond 200 nautical miles (as an incentive to EU vessel owners not to re-flag their fishing vessels in third countries). The new rules also cover the transport and development subsidies for the fisheries sector in the EU's outermost regions.

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From January 2007 MegaPesca will be working in collaboration with Oceanic Developpement (France) on a 3-year framework for the European Commission to monitor all of the EU’s new Fisheries Partnership Agreements with third countries. For each country we will be studying the costs and benefits of these agreements, which have often attracted criticism, particularly since many of these countries have weak fisheries management regimes. The result will be better agreements, more closely focused on the development needs of the country concerned. The framework contract will also evaluate impacts of fisheries trade measures taken in line with the external element of the Common Fisheries Policy.

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