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Structural Policy and Economic Analysis Unit. Growing in stature Currently 12 employees Currently 4 major areas of responsibility. Task 1. Provide DG MARE units with the analytical means to give economic rigour to all aspects of the CFP
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Growing in stature • Currently 12 employees • Currently 4 major areas of responsibility
Task 1 • Provide DG MARE units with the analytical means to give economic rigour to all aspects of the CFP • Assist with the concept of policy changes and re-orientation, and oversee that economic and social effects of measures are thoroughly and consistently evaluated • Assist in facilitating improved cooperation with external experts and organisations that deal with economic aspects of fisheries management and policy
Task 2 • Carry out horizontal actions in the area of structural policy • Define general policy in this area and coordinate and ensure consistency between actions taken in the various Member States both with the programming and execution phases • Ensure coordination with other EU structural funds • Supervise, coordinate and finance technical assistance actions at EU level
Tasks 3 • Structural Policy tasks involve the execution of the EFF programmes initiated by Member States • Most important are perhaps the actions envisaged under Axis 4, where the Commission is actively working closely with Member States on a number of fronts.
Task 4 • Undertake impact assessment of new regulations • Undertake socio-economic impact assessments of policy options on long term management plans, (e.g. northern hake, cod), IUU fishing, discard policy, shark action plan etc • Undertake assessments of economic performance of fleets, impacts of fuel prices, vessel decommissioning, subsidies, management reflections, etc • With a direct link now established with structural policy, this will become a more strategic part of the units work • Improve data - for social data this area needs further work • Baltic cod community profiling work showed a lot of promise
The Social Dimension • Social dimension difficult to assess and often limited to estimating direct employment involved in a fishery that could potentially be impacted by changing regulations • Data supplied through the DCR and does not necessarily reflect the number of jobs lost or the definite impact on specific communities • Some social assessments made for northern hake long term management plan last year • IFM undertook study on Baltic cod fishing communities • Work in hand by University of Helsinki on socio-economic impact assessment of Baltic salmon action plan, based on Bayesian modelling and a sociological belief-modelling approach – interesting results
Important that your group develops its approach to socio-economic issues, and doing so, also ensuring that it finds synergies with our own work here in Brussels.