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fi sheries management with CFP (Sect. 3.2 ). This is relevant background information for the results section (Sect. 3.3 ). The section addresses the two key aspects of
assessment –management interactions and stakeholder communication processes.
We present the results of our analysis of the interactions between risk assessment
and risk management (i.e. how data is collected, communicated and fed into the
policy process). We also describe the results concerning communication with and
amongst stakeholders including role framing , transparency and discourse play in
the communication processes. The presentation of the results is followed by a discussion section (Sect. 3.4 ); the paper concludes with some thoughts and recommendations (Sect. 3.5 ).
3.2 Governance Structures
3.2.1 The EU’s Common Fisheries Policy
Fisheries management is one of the few areas where Member States have given EU
institutions full decision-making power.
2 The exclusive right of the EU to manage
fi sheries is set forth in the Treaty of Lisbon (Article 2B), which states that the EU
will have ‘exclusive competence’ over ‘the conservation of marine biological
resources under the common fi sheries policy’.
3
After the enlargement of the EU in 2004, all Baltic coastal states except Russia
are now members of the EU. Since then CFP, originally established in 1983, is regulating the EU’s fi sheries activities. Prior to 2004, the states bordering the Baltic Sea
managed internationally relevant issues of Baltic Sea fi sheries multilaterally via the
International Baltic Sea Fisheries Commission (IBSFC).
4 However, with EU
enlargement IBSFC became redundant and ceased its activities on 31 December
2005. The two remaining parties, namely, the EU and Russia, arrange bilateral fi sheries agreements, which are approved on behalf of the Community by Council
Regulation (EC) No 439/2009 in 2009.
2 Important regulations for the fi sheries sector are EC No 2371/ 2002 , EC 2004 /585, EC 2187/ 2005 ,
EC 1098/ 2007 , EC 439/ 2009 and EC 1226/ 2009 .
3 European Union, Treaty of Lisbon Amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty
Establishing the European Community, 13 December 2007, 2007/C 306/01, available at http://
www.refworld.org/docid/476258d32.html [accessed 7 July 2014].
4 The IBSFC was established in 1974 on the basis of the Convention on Fishing and Conservation
of Living Resources in the Baltic Sea and the Belts (the Gdansk Convention) signed by the Baltic
countries in 1973.
P. Sellke et al.
fi sheries management with CFP (Sect. 3.2 ). This is relevant background information for the results section (Sect. 3.3 ). The section addresses the two key aspects of
assessment –management interactions and stakeholder communication processes.
We present the results of our analysis of the interactions between risk assessment
and risk management (i.e. how data is collected, communicated and fed into the
policy process). We also describe the results concerning communication with and
amongst stakeholders including role framing , transparency and discourse play in
the communication processes. The presentation of the results is followed by a discussion section (Sect. 3.4 ); the paper concludes with some thoughts and recommendations (Sect. 3.5 ).
3.2 Governance Structures
3.2.1 The EU’s Common Fisheries Policy
Fisheries management is one of the few areas where Member States have given EU
institutions full decision-making power.
2 The exclusive right of the EU to manage
fi sheries is set forth in the Treaty of Lisbon (Article 2B), which states that the EU
will have ‘exclusive competence’ over ‘the conservation of marine biological
resources under the common fi sheries policy’.
3
After the enlargement of the EU in 2004, all Baltic coastal states except Russia
are now members of the EU. Since then CFP, originally established in 1983, is regulating the EU’s fi sheries activities. Prior to 2004, the states bordering the Baltic Sea
managed internationally relevant issues of Baltic Sea fi sheries multilaterally via the
International Baltic Sea Fisheries Commission (IBSFC).
4 However, with EU
enlargement IBSFC became redundant and ceased its activities on 31 December
2005. The two remaining parties, namely, the EU and Russia, arrange bilateral fi sheries agreements, which are approved on behalf of the Community by Council
Regulation (EC) No 439/2009 in 2009.
2 Important regulations for the fi sheries sector are EC No 2371/ 2002 , EC 2004 /585, EC 2187/ 2005 ,
EC 1098/ 2007 , EC 439/ 2009 and EC 1226/ 2009 .
3 European Union, Treaty of Lisbon Amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty
Establishing the European Community, 13 December 2007, 2007/C 306/01, available at http://
www.refworld.org/docid/476258d32.html [accessed 7 July 2014].
4 The IBSFC was established in 1974 on the basis of the Convention on Fishing and Conservation
of Living Resources in the Baltic Sea and the Belts (the Gdansk Convention) signed by the Baltic
countries in 1973.
P. Sellke et al.