Report of the First Regional Co-Ordination Meeting (RCM)

The issue of Regional Co-ordination of the Data Collection Regulation was discussed at the meeting of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture (Brussels 20/10/2003). The need to co-ordinate the DCR on a more regional basis was agreed as the problems and issues in the Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic, Overseas and Mediterranean are very different. There was general agreement that regional co-ordination would greatly increase the efficiency, effectiveness and integration of the various DCR National Programmes.