Report on the development Impact of the EU-IUU regulation on Commonwealth ACP Member Countries

On 22 September 2008, the Council of the European Union adopted a Regulation “establishing a Community system to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing” (referred to hereafter as the IUU Regulation).1 This IUU Regulation, scheduled to enter into force on 1 January 2010, is intended to regulate the highly complex multi-channel fisheries supply system of the European Community (EC) in an effort to improve global fisheries sustainability.2 Essentially, the IUU Regulation establishes a system of access conditionality in which access to the EC markets will be partly conditioned by the extent to which the country, area or region of origin of the exported fish product is completely free or increasingly free of IUU fishing. This measure clearly has trade and developmental impacts for Commonwealth members of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, hence the need for this Report.

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EC IUU Regulation Report