Positions and briefings archive
- BirdLife Position on Western Mediterranean Multiannual Plan (June 2018)
- Joint letter from BirdLife and Low Impact Fishers of Europe: Support for technical rules to safeguard seabirds (November 2017)
- Letter: Live Streaming of the Fisheries Council exchange of views on Commission Communication on Fishing Opportunities for 2018 (June 2017)
- Blue manifesto for Europe's seas (April 2015)
- Joint NGO open letter to MEP Alain Cadec, Chairman of the Fisheries Committee (September 2014)
- Briefing on the coherence of fisheries management with achieving environmental obligations (October 2015)
Fisheries
Tackling seabird bycatch through fisheries governance
- BirdLife Europe reposonse: Public consultation on EU-Mauritania fisheries agreement’s current protocol evaluation (Nov 2018)
- NGO letter: Maintaining the EU ban on subsidies for the construction of fishing vessels (March 2017)
- BirdLife Europe position on EU Plan of Action for reducing incidental catches of seabirds in fishing gears (April 2013)
- BirdLife Europe Briefing: Time to halt seabird bycatch in the EU (April 2013)
- Joint NGO Briefing "Overfishing: you can end it! - reform of the CFP" (January 2013)
- Seabird bycatch mitigation factsheets
- EU Commission's response to BirdLife Europe's question on implementation of EU action plan to tackle seabird bycatch (December 2015)
Implementing the CFP: Technical measures
- Joint NGO letter to Commissioners Vella and Malmström: Maintaining the EU ban on subsidies for the construction of new fishing vessels (September 2018)
- Joint NGO voting recommendations (November 2017)
- Briefing: How can incidental catches of seabirds be eliminated (June 2017)
- BirdLife letter to Fisheries Ministers: Action needed to save seabirds from drowning from fishing activities (March 2017)
- Joint NGO position paper on the European Commission’s proposal for a new Technical Measures Framework (August 2016)
- Briefing on technical measures to support management of EU fisheries (October 2015)
- Birdlife Europe position on development of a new framework for technical measures in the reformed CFP (May 2014)
- BirdLife position on the New Technical Measures Framework (September 2013)
- EU Commission's proposed legislation on mandatory technical measures implementation in the EU to eliminate seabird bycatch (March 2016)
Implementing the CFP: Data collection
- Briefing on NGO views on EC proposal to revise Data Collection Framework (October 2015)
- Joint NGO position on the EU 2014-2020 Multi-Annual Programme for Data Collection (DC-MAP; May 2014)
Implementing the CFP: Fisheries management plans
- (UPDATE - Sept 2017) NGO priorities for the Plenary vote on the North Sea Multi-Annual Plan (2016/0238(COD)
- NGO priorities for the Plenary vote on the North Sea Multi-Annual Plan (2016/0238(COD) - Versions DE - PL - ES - FR- PT)
- Letter: Environmental NGOs call for an ambitious and science-based multiannual management plan for small pelagic stocks in the Adriatic Sea (June 2017)
- Proposal for a Multi-annual plan for the North Sea, Joint NGO voting recommendations (May 2017)
- Joint NGO priorities on the Multi-annual Plan for the North Sea - 4 pages (November 2016)
- Joint NGO priorities on the Multi-annual Plan for the North Sea - 2 pages (November 2016)
- European Commission press release on Baltic Sea fishing (September 2015)
- Western Waters Consultation: BirdLife's response (September 2015)
- Northern Adriatic Consultation: BirdLife's response (September 2015)
- A letter to the Latvian minister (June 2015)
- BirdLife response to North Sea demersal fisheries MAP (May 2015)
- Key NGO priorities for the Baltic Multi-Annual Plan (April 2015)
- A letter to ministers on the Baltic Multi-Annual Plan (April 2015)
- Key NGO priorities for the Baltic Multi-Annual Plan (March 2015)
- Joint NGO priorities on the multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea (January 2015)
- North-East Atlantic: Governments leave threatened wildlife in dire condition (December 2013)
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Marine Protected Areas
Marine Natura 2000
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2014 Report: Marine Natura 2000 Progress Assessment (November 2014)
- Marine IBA Toolkit (2010-2011)
Marine spatial planning
Aquaculture
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Dealing with human-cormorant conflicts (October 2015)
- Joint NGO Position "Priorities for environmentally responsible aquaculture in the EU" (August 2014)
Marine Strategy Framework Directive
- BirdLife response to the consultation on the technical and scientific review of the GES decision (July 2015)
International ocean governance
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