EU request to ICES on evaluation of the Trans-border management plan for European eel in the Polish–Russian zone of the Pregola drainage basin and Vistula Lagoon

ICES advises that the approach applied in the Trans-border management plan for European eel in the Polish–Russian zone of the Pregola drainage basin and Vistula Lagoon (TEMPP) is consistent with the Regulation (EC 1100/2007). However, ICES has identified a number of data deficiencies that make it impossible to evaluate the ability of the TEMPP to achieve the objectives of the Regulation in the proposed time schedule. The request from the Commission includes 18 questions. The responses to these questions are elaborated below.