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The European Union is planning a large-scale modernization of ports and transport infrastructure in terms of preparation for a potential war with Russia.

The revised rules modernise the way fishing activities are controlled, for both EU vessels and those fishing in EU waters.

Following the departure of the UK from the EU, most stocks in the EU waters of the north-east Atlantic are now shared with non-EU countries, in particular the UK.

The Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture has voted on the Commission’s proposal to close vulnerable areas to fishing gears which touch the seabed.

An international alliance of 45 companies, knowledge institutes and port authorities, headed by the Port of Rotterdam Authority, has been awarded nearly € 25 million in EU funding.

The EU and Greenland concluded negotiations for a new Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) and a new Protocol that will strengthen their cooperation in the fisheries sector for the next four years with the possibility of a two-year extension.

The project will start during November 2020 and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023.

This innovative cross-border CCUS project would be among the first and world’s largest multimodal open access CO2 export infrastructure.

The European Clean Hydrogen Alliance aims to initiate an investment agenda and support the scaling up of the hydrogen value chain across Europe.

EU reaches provisional agreement on reducing fishing fleet in the Baltic with support from EU funds

Hydrogen will be important for the next phase of the European energy transition. Vattenfall, who drives innovative projects such as HYBRIT, now also joins the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance.

EUR 11 mln TEN-T funding for (Bio)LNG infrastructure will accelerate the shipping sectors energy transition