1. M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Working Group for Chapter 13 – Fisheries International agreements Brussels, 05-06 June 2013 Nada LAKICEVIC nada.lakicevic@mpr.gov.me

2.  Montenegro has signed the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea  Montenegro ratified the UNCLOS - 23 October 2006  Law of the Sea (Official Gazette of Montenegro 17/07) is in line with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - UNCLOS - United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - UNCLOS - M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 13 Fisheries

3.  Law of the Sea closely regulates: internal waters, territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, continental shelf, the prohibition of entering, stopping and prosecuting ship  Law of the Sea is implemented by institutions: Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs in close cooperation with: Ministry of Defence Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry of the Interior Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 13 Fisheries

4.  At the 34th Session of the FAO Conference of States Parties, held from 17-24 November 2007, Montenegro was by acclamation admitted to full membership  Ever since, Montenegro has taken part in many projects and had the opportunity to cooperate with a number of experts  Include strengthening of legislation, public institutions, laboratory capacities and industry standards Food and Agriculture Organization M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 13 Fisheries

5.  Montenegro became full member of GFCM on 31 January 2008  Accepts all commitments and decisions of this Committee  Actively participates in making of all decisions  Participants: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – administrative body Institute for Marine Biology – scientific body General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 13 Fisheries

6.  Montenegro has its representatives in the following committees: Scientific Advisory Committee – SAC Committee for Aquaculture – CAQ Committee of Compliance – CoC Committee on Administration and Finance - CAF  Also, in sub-committees: SAC Sub-Committee of Stock Assessment – SCSA SAC Sub-Committee on Statistic and Information - SCSI SAC Sub-Committee on Marine Environment and Eco-systems - SCMEE SAC Sub-Committee on Economic and Social Sciences - SCSS Compliance Committee - CoC M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 13 Fisheries General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean

7.  The GFCM enjoys the support of FAO cooperative projects at sub-regional and regional level which enhance, in particular, scientific cooperation and capacity building in participating countries in line with GFCM priorities and strategies:  ’ ’Scientific Cooperation to Support Responsible Fisheries in the Adriatic Sea’’- FAO AdriaMed - in January 2004 the authorities of Montenegro signed the partnership with the FAO AdriaMed Project becoming effectively an AdriaMed participating countries.  Within FAO project ADRIAMED was performed: a series of joint scientific expedition monitoring of fishery resources develop an active and dynamic system of collecting statistical data from fisheries through this project has raised a number of initiatives, some of which include cooperation at the administrative level of the countries of the Adriatic region. thanks to this and similar projects, series of data on the fish community are collected and a common and divisible commodity at the Adriatic basin. M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 13 Fisheries General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean

8.  Montenegro is aware that one of the possibilities for new investments is farming tuna (Thunnus thynnus) that would be hunted in the Adriatic Sea and farmed in cages until reaching the marketing size for subsequent sales at the international market.  Given the limited resources and quotas for fishing of tuna, and very large investment in vessels for fishing, farming, monitoring system, control, reporting, before the final decision on membership in ICCAT, Montenegro would make an economic analysis of fishing and farming which would be based on the management plan and the recommendations of ICCAT.  Although Montenegro is not yet an ICCAT member, the Law on Marine Fisheries and Mariculture (Official Gazette of Montenegro 56/09) lays down the measures of preservation and intervention management measures and reactions in case of serious and unpredicted risk to living marine resources or marine ecosystem, for the purpose of protection and sustainable management of marine fisheries. International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas – ICCAT M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 13 Fisheries

9.  Ratification: Legal framework for conservation and management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks;  To develop a legal framework that will include: obligations regarding conservation and management measures and its fishing vessels on high seas obligations regarding the fight against the illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing M O N T E N E G R O Negotiating Team for the Accession of Montenegro to the European Union Chapter 13 Fisheries NEEDED

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