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ICELAND: Ensuring a sustainable and efficient fishery

20-Sep-2011

Iceland has managed its large fishing industry in a sustainable and profitable way. The foundations of this success are setting Total Allowable Catches (TACs) based on scientific recommendations of what is biologically sustainable and the Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) system, which gives each holder the right to catch a certain of the TAC in various species.

Guiding Principles for Reform of Environmental Enforcement Authorities in Transition Economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia adopted at the Ministerial Meeting in Kiev

18-Jul-2011

Environmental Ministers from the whole Europe, the US and Canada in their Declaration adopted at the Conference in May 2003 in Kiev, Ukraine adopted "Guiding Principles for Reform of Environmental Enforcement Authorities in Transition Economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA)" as a basis for true institutional restructuring and rebuilding enforcement and compliance assurance systems following the crisis that touched the region in the 1990s.