CoR opinion on Data Collection in Fisheries
The Committee of the Regions (CoR) has provided its opinion on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the establishment of a Community Union framework for the collection, management and use of data in the fisheries sector and support for scientific advice regarding the Common Fisheries Policy.
In its main points, the CoR:
- requests the participation of representatives of coastal local and regional authorities with legal and financial powers in the fisheries sector in the Regional Coordination Groups;
- emphasises the importance of data collection for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the blue economy, taking into account the need for data collection in order to fill existing knowledge gaps;
- calls upon all stakeholders to work, where possible, towards ensuring the open availability of collected data in a format that can be used by relevant users, including local and regional authorities;
- proposes that the legislator establishes a classification of the main types of end-users in order to be consistent with STECF recommendation.