Compliance with international conservation and management measures by fishing vessels on the high seas

OBJECTIVE: to enable the Community to accede to the Agreement to promote compliance with international conservation and management measures by fishing vessels on the high sea. COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Decision 96/428/EC SUBSTANCE: the Community's accession to this agreement, which concerns the conservation and management of the biological resources of the high seas, is the outcome of protracted discussions during 1994 and 1995 and the judgment delivered by the European Court of Justice on 19 March 1996 in case C-25/94 on the right to vote in the FAO on the occasion of the adoption of the agreement in question. �