On the 18th September the Europe Day is going to be celebrated by the Community Fisheries Control Agency together with the European Maritime Safety Agency. They celebrate Europe Day within the scope of the World Fishing Exhibition. It is told that the event will start at 11.30 am with the arrival of Harm Koster and Willem de Ruiter, Directors of the Community Fisheries Control Agency and the European Maritime Safety Agency respectively, who, together with different Community and local authorities will visit the Exhibition Centre.
Press communiqué shows the activities of the Europe Day will be complemented by a visit to the vessel ‘Ría de Vigo’, which will be docked at the A Laxe pier during the morning and will be available for visits until 3 pm. The Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA) was established in 2005 with the objective of providing a tool to reinforce the observance of the measures set in 2002 by the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.
Its aim is to unify and improve the observance of these measures through the share of the national and Community fisheries control and inspection resources and through the coordination of the corresponding activities. The Agency will organize the intervention of the national control and inspection resources according to the European strategy.
The European Maritime Safety Agency was established in May 2003 and has been considerably developed since then, creating an organization able of carrying out the tasks entrusted to it within the Community regulations, and which will keep strengthening towards 2010. The year 2006 was especially important, as the official seat of the Agency was definitively moved from Brussels to Lisbon (Portugal). The main tasks of the Agency are expected to be widened and consolidated in 2010. All the activities regarding the appropriate implementation of the Community’s safety regulations will be the priority.
