EC to send IUU inspection team to Vietnam in October
An inspection team from the European Commission (EC) will visit Vietnam to examine the country’s efforts on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing prevention and control in October instead of May as it announced earlier, Tran Dinh Luan, Director of the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said on May 21.
Fishing vessels of Ninh Thuan province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – An inspection team from the EuropeanCommission (EC) will visit Vietnam to examine the country’s efforts on illegal,unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing prevention and control in Octoberinstead of May as it announced earlier, Tran Dinh Luan, Director of theDirectorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment (MARD) said on May 21.
Luan said that the EC suggested the organisation of online working sessions with Vietnamese authorities in May, June and October before sending theteam to Vietnam.
In late May, a MARD delegation will have in-person working sessions with EC representatives to update themon Vietnam’s achievements in IUU fishing prevention and control with the hope of narrowing the EC’s recommendations to Vietnam.
Since the EC’s inspection in last October, Vietnam has worked hard to implementfour groups of the EC’s recommendations on IUU fishing prevention and control,including those on legal framework; fishing vessel monitoring and control, and fleetmanagement; seafood output verification and origin traceability; and law enforcement.
The MARD has also set up working groups to inspect the situation in coastallocalities and instruct them in rolling out measures against IUU fishing andimplementing the EC's recommendations.
Meanwhile, ministries and central agencies as well aslocalities have focused on realising their tasks of IUU fishing combat, preventing andsettling ships violating foreign waters and IUU fishing activities.
Luan urged ministries, sectors and localities to work harder to fix existingproblems, step up communications on regulations against IUU fishing, andprepare to receive the EC inspection team, thus persuading the EC to remove the“yellow card” against Vietnamese seafood exports.
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Fishing vessels of Ninh Thuan province (Photo: VNA) 
