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Illegal fishing and bottom trawling pose long-term threat to marine ecosystems, well beyond EU’s territorial waters.

Illegal fishing in the name of short-term profit threatens a whole ecosystem. Technically known as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing , it can no longer be tolerated and the EU has now decided to act.

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·     *closing the EU market to all uncertified fishing products

·     *drawing up a blacklist of offending vessels and countries which allow them to operate

·     *severely penalising all illegal fishing both in and outside the EU's territorial waters

·     *improving cooperation on managing the flow/supervision of marine products.

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^{The EU Council today adopted a decision, under article 104(12) of the treaty, abrogating the decision it took in January 2006 on the United Kingdom’s excessive government deficit under article 104(6).}

^{The excessive deficit procedure was opened with regard to the UK following a government deficit in the 2004-05 financial year that amounted to 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) and a Commission forecast for the deficit to widen in the 2005-06 and 2006-07 financial years.}

^{In January 2006, the Council also addressed a recommendation to the UK, under article 104(7) of the EC treaty, on measures needed in order to bring its deficit below the maximum threshold of 3% of GDP set by the treaty, by the 2006-07 financial year at the latest. These included a 0.5% of GDP structural improvement in the budget balance between 2005-06 and 2006-07.}

^{In the 2006-07 financial year, according to data provided by Eurostat, the UK reduced its government deficit to 2.7% of GDP, which is below both the 3% threshold and the 2.8% projection set by the UK in the December 2005 update of its convergence programme. Compared with 2005-06, the improvement in the structural balance is estimated at 0.7% of GDP.}

^{For 2007-08, the Commission's 2007 spring forecast projects the deficit to be reduced to 2.6%, which is higher than the 2.3% deficit projection set by the UK in the December 2006 update of its convergence programme but in line with the projection published in the UK's March 2007 budget. For 2008-09, the Commission's spring forecast projects a further decline to 2.4%, on a no-policy-change basis.}

^{The Council concluded that the UK's deficit has been brought below the 3% of GDP threshold in a credible and sustainable manner, although by a rather modest path of fiscal consolidation.}

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^{K. G. says  Doesn't this feel and sound like the UK is viewed as something that has to be kept an eye on. Its this kind of expected accountability that is most worrying in the whole EU oversight that should be of the utmost concern within the British government  but the message to me is that they just don't get it!}