Alongside co-author Sophie de Clers, Indrani Lutchman (IEEP) will be presenting the soon-to-be published report ‘Perspectives for a new European Fisheries Fund’ to the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries, on 11 October in Brussels.

The report was commissioned by the European Parliament Directorate-General for Internal Policies to inform their own proposals and input to the new proposal for the fisheries financing Regulation expected in late 2011. It evaluates the implementation of the European Fisheries Fund and identifies shortcomings and challenges that Member States and the fishing industry have faced during the current programming period (2007-2013). The report also develops a series of options for a future EFF, in the form of different scenarios.