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Background In order to mitigate against the negative impacts of climate change, the European Commission adopted a Green Paper (COM(2006) 105 final) establishing a European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy. Additionally, Directive 2009/28/CE (Renewables Directive) established that 20% of energy consumption in the European Union must ...

Background Discards refer to the practice of dumping overboard dead unwanted fish that are accidentally caught as by-catch during commercial fishing practices. Most conventional fishing operations produce discards (ranging from between 2 and 10% for long-line methods and increasing by as much as 90% for trawling systems). New measures within the Common Fi ...