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Fisheries Bilateral Agreements

Fisheries Bilateral Agreements are annual negotiations led by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs to set UK fishing opportunities and quotas with neighbouring nations including the EU, Faroe Islands, and Norway. These agreements cover key stocks such as North-East Atlantic mackerel and blue whiting and are essential post-Brexit arrangements for managing shared fish resources.

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29 Jan 2024 | Committee report linked

While non-legally binding instruments (NLBIs) do not place legal obligations on the UK, they can impose ‘political obligations’ that can guide government action and even result in financial obligations being placed on the UK. The UK is an internationally trusted nation; when it makes a political commitment, this should be viewed as essentially equivalent to making a legally binding obligation. We do however recognise that NLBIs can range from the very mundane to the very significant.

While non-legally binding instruments (NLBIs) do not place legal obligations on the UK, they can impose ‘political obligations’ that can guide government action and even result in financial obligations being placed on the UK. The UK is an internationally trusted …

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18 Mar 2022 | Committee report linked

We asked the Department about the value of state-to-UK bilateral agreements, in terms of contributing to the 80% target. The Department could not tell us and thought this would be hard to calculate. The Department said that it had not set a target for increasing market access at a state level.24 We also emphasised that the lifting of the ban on beef and lamb is only an achievement if it actually has an impact on British exports to the US. Defra told us that the ban on lamb was lifted at the e...

We asked the Department about the value of state-to-UK bilateral agreements, in terms of contributing to the 80% target. The Department could not tell us and thought this would be hard to calculate. The Department said that it had not …

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