European Fisheries Agency

European Fisheries Agency will have its headquarters in Vigo, Galicia Spain. On March 14 2005 the European Union Agriculture ministers reached a political agreement on establishing a Community Fisheries Control Agency which will be tasked with coordinating fishing controls in Community waters.

The establishment of the agency constitutes one of the last stages of the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy initiated in 2002 in so far as the measure will enable standardised controls and inspections to be carried out throughout the Community, as well as the pooling of national control methods with a view to common deployment and harmonised training of fisheries inspectors. The weighting of voting rights on the governing board takes into consideration the interests of the Community: the Commission will have six votes; the Member States will have one vote each.

See also

* Vigo
* Port of Vigo