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: The forthcoming reforms of the CFP set a framework for the next ten years, so they’re incredibly important and it’s very significant that regionalisation has been so prominent in the proposals. Prior to the 2002 reforms we had argued for ‘zonal management’ which helped to pave the way for the establishment of RACs in the last round of reforms, but we need to take regionalisation even further and I think there’s likely to be another step in the
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right direction this time round. I remain of the view that real progress will be made as long as there is no dilution of the idea and the Commission does not intervene in a disruptive, micro-managerial way. However, we’re still only halfway through the legislation process and, although the Council’s general approval in June was not bad, what will hap- pen in the European Parliament is an unknown quantity. Hopefully the issue will be sorted out next year, but it could even be in 2014 before the CFP reforms actually take place.
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: Do you feel threatened by the prospect of extra MPAs?
: MPAs won’t go away and we need to adapt and live with them, but we don’t yet know what management measures will go with them, so we’ll be working quite intensively to ensure that proportionate measures are taken.
The decisions over designation of site boundaries and management measures are vital but it is a matter of concern that there is no agreed Code of Conduct based on the principles of good governance that