The Fisheries Committee will look at the proposal amending the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) Regulation and the Common Provision Regulation on 7 April. The aim is to provide for specific, more flexible measures to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. The EMFF proposal broadly deals with temporary cessations, financial aid for aquaculture producers, aid on stockage, and simplified reallocation of national operational programme funds.

The Conference of Presidents (CoP) of the European Parliament updated the institution’s calendar of activities on 2 April, as a result of the continuing precautionary measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19. Apart from agreeing on a new extraordinary plenary session on 16 and 17 April in Brussels, the CoP has now introduced additional dates for remote meetings for Parliament’s governing bodies, committees and political groups. The full calendar is available on Parliament’s website.

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