Annex 5

5.A The extent to which the fisheries sector is integrated into Transition Economies PRSPs and National Development Plans

Country	Document/Date	Criteria	Value	Remarks
Albania	PRSP/Nov 2001 PRSPR/ Jun 2003	Issue	1	Bad fishing water resource management as cause of steadily declining fisheries production. Fishery and sustainable resource management assigned imp. role in general framework for rural sector devmt.
		Links	1	Increase in incomes from agric., forestry and fishery identified as key instrument for econ. and social dvmt. Damages to fisheries constit. obstacle to pov. red. effort
		Responses	2	Actions aimed at improving fishery resources management (legal meas., database to monitor fish reserves, General Fishing Committee for the Mediterranean (GFCM/ FAO)) incl. in impl. matrix Spec. support policies for the sector (e.g. facil. access to inputs/ fuel, rehab. of fishing ports), incl. in impl. matrix Promotion of aquaculture activities (incl. establishment of high-value pilot aquaculture schemes in fresh and seawaters) outlined in impl. matrix Increase level of processing of agric./fishery products, measures proposed in implementation matrix (PRSP) and realization matrix (PRSPR).
		Process	2	Damages to fisheries identified in participatory process as factor obstructing growth and/or pov. red.. Introd. of joint management of sea resources by rural comm. planned- national and regiona; fisherman associations are being set up/ promoted.
Armenia	PRSP/ Nov 2003	Issue	1	Fishing as one of three reasons for the strategic significance of Lake Sevan.
		Links	1	Fishing is most imp. income source for pop. around Lake Sevan (no spec. mention of pov.)
		Responses	1	Environmental policy will rehabilitate and protect Lake Sevan's ecosystem and promote its rational use (no specific ref. to fisheries).
Azerbaijan	PRSP/ May 2003	Issues	2	Pollution of Caspian Sea- Baku bay area biolog. dead
		Links	2	Livelihoods of large sections of population depend on Casp. Sea (oil and fisheries). Public sector employees in agric., forestry and fishing amongst the poorest paid public servants, earning less than the absolute pov. line (US$25.8/m) Poverty aggravates environ. probl., incl. overfishing in Casp. Sea, whereas pollution of Casp Sea neg. affects living standards.
		Responses	2	Measures to protect Casp. Sea from further poll./ biomass reduction (limit. on fishing, commun. particip.) Subst. wage/salary increases for publ. employees in agric., forest. and fishing promised (2003-5). Subst. increase in expend. on econ. services, incl. fisheries, to promote econ. growth (Capital exp. and supp. programs for the poor) promised.
		Process	2	Mobilising community level resources in protecting, monitoring environment (publ. educ. on environm. issues, establ. appropr. monitoring indic. and decentr. of govt. policy direction).
Belarus
Bulgaria	NEDP 2000-6 NRDP
Czech Republic	NDP 2004-6
Estonia	NDP 2003-6 NDPPC 2003-6	Issue	3	Separate section of the NDP prov. excellent detailed discussion of fisheries sector, incl. avail. fish-stocks, state and capacity of fishing fleet, fish processing ind., fishing ports, aquaculture. SWOT analysis incl. fisheries sector. Table/ section wrt. relationships betw. environ. objectives and devt. measures (incl. fisheries sector)
		Link	1	Fisheries imp. source of income in several coastal areas, yet limited employment opport. in sector add to insecure socio-economic situation in coastal areas. EU common agric./rural devt., and fisheries policies to be harnessed to allev. pov. and social excl. in rural areas
		Responses	3	Need to bring all links in the fish handling chain into conform. with EU food and occup. safety, and environ. protect. requirem stressed. Five programme priorities defined, incl. Rural Dvmt. and Agriculture outlining five (out of 13) fishery-related objectives and measures (aquaculture, processing, market outlets, infrastructure, fleet-restructuring). Measures discussed in detail, costed, funding sources identified.
		Process	1	Reps. of fisheries sector assoc. involved in prep. of NDP
Georgia	PRSP/ Jun 2003	Links	1	Share of meat, fish and dairy products in food energy consumption varies across the population between 7-20%, around 10% for people living in extreme poverty.
Hungary	NDP 2004-6	Issues	2	Para. disc. situat./challenges of fisheries sector. SWAT analysis identif. obsolete fish-farm. facil. and inadeq. fish process. capacit. as weakness vis-à-vis rural devt. Modernis. of agricult. sector (incl. fisheries) essential to prevent sector from becom. burden to rest of econ.
		Responses	2	Intent. to modernize/ revitalize fisheries sector/ raise competitiveness signalled. Agric. and Rural Operational Progr. section contains para. outlining fishery rel. meas. EC Structural Funds, esp. Financial Instrument of Fisheries Guidance (FIFG) identif. as funding source.
Kazakhstan	*SPD 2001-10
Kyrgyzstan	PRSP/ Dec 2002	Issues	1	Red Book of the Republic protects inter alia 2 fish species (one was included after 1985). Favourable future for devt. of fishing in Son-Kul Lake. Potential of profitable sectors poultry breeding and fish farming recognized.
Latvia	*NDP 2002-6
Lithuania	LTEDS 2002-15	Issues	2	All components of SWOT analysis incl. fisheries related issues. Favourable natural conditions for fisheries devt. noted, yet sector needs reform/ restructuring.
		Responses	2	Strategic Goal- Create econ. productive fishery system complying with EU criteria. Fisheries policy discussed in three sub-sections: Marine fishery, Interior fishery, Fishery information system.
Macedonia, FYR	IPRSP/ Nov 2000			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Moldova	IPRSP/ Apr 2002			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Poland	NDP 2004-6 SOPFFP 2004-6
Romania	GP 2001-4	Responses	1	Promise to promote cooperative system (incl. fisheries) through adequate legislative framework Intent. to modernis. food ind. by, inter alia, prom. diversif. foodstuffs assort.. (incl. fish products) signalled
Russian Federation	*SSEPP 2000-10
Slovakia
Slovenia	NDP 2001-6	Issues	2	Separate section of the NDP discusses state of fisheries sector, incl. marine fishery, freshwater fishing, fish farming, fish trade). Table detail. educ. structure of labour force by sector, incl. fishery sector.
		Responses	3	Development Priority: Restructuring of Agric. and Rural Devt. incl. programme for fishery devt. containing two lines of action (i) Sustainable resource management (ii) Incr. prod. capacities for freshwater fish farming. Objectives, content and monitoring indicators detailed and overall budget establ. EC Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance to provide funding.
Tajikistan	PRSP/ Jun 2002			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever.
Turkmenistan
Ukraine	*GAP 2000-4
Uzbekistan

Abbreviations:

PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper) - Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
IPRSP (Interim PRSP) - Macedonia, Moldova
PRSPR (Poverty Reduction Strategy Progress Report) - Albania
NDP (National Development Plan) - Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia
NEDP (National Economic Development Plan) - Bulgaria
NRDP (National Regional Development Plan) - Bulgaria
SPD (Strategic Plan of Development) - Kazakhstan
LTEDS (Long-term Economic Development Strategy) - Lithuania
SOPFFP (Sectoral Operational Programme-Fish and Fish Processing) - Poland
GP (Governance Program) - Romania
GAP (Government Activity Programme) - Ukraine
SSEPP (Strategic Socio-Economic and Political Programme) - Russian Federation

The Czech NDP was not analysed due to technical problems.
Belarus, Slovakia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan either have no comprehensive/ definitive national policy document or strategy- or it was impossible to identify same.

5.B The extent to which the fisheries sector is integrated into the World Bank Country Assistance Strategies (CAS) for Transition Economies

Country	Document/Date	Criteria	Value	Remarks
Albania	CAS/ May 2002	Responses	3	Pilot Fishery Devt Proj. to improve fishery resources management (incl. intr. of joint mngmt practices) and increase aquaculture activities. 7 measures. identified, indicators defined and proj. costed. Agricultural Services Project, incl. measures to increase level of processing of agric./ fishery products.
Armenia	CAS/ Apr 2001	Issues	2	Since independence many environm. problems, such as depletion of fisheries resources, have aggravated considerably. Govt. has recently completed National Environ. Action Plan to address these issues.
		Links	1	Deter. socio-econ. cond. have forced many poor people to overuse Armenia's nat. res., leading, inter alia, to severe depl. of fishery res.
Azerbaijan	CAS/ Nov 1999	Issues	1	Govt. aims at revers. biodivers. loss in Casp. Sea (sturgeon hatchery)
		Responses	1	Several current and future environment-related WB activities mentioned in CAS Progr. Matrix with aim of addr. env. issues of Casp. Sea (pollution, water level, fish stocks). Project Agribusiness Sector Pre-Investment Techn. Assist. is evaluating prosp. ventures, incl. fishing/fish-products processing
Belarus	CAS/ Feb 2002			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Bulgaria	CAS/ May 2002			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Czech Republic	NO CAS avail.
Estonia	NO CAS avail.
Georgia	NO CAS avail.
Hungary	CASPR/ Apr 2002	Issue	1	Matrix on Status of H. accession negot. with EU incl. fisheries sector. Legis. in line with Common Fish. Pol. some amend. required
Kazakhstan	NO CAS avail.
Kyrgyzstan	CASPR/ Nov 2001			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Latvia	CAS/ Apr 2002	Issues	1	EU access. neg. advanced- 23 of 29 chap (incl. fisheries) prov. closed EC Phare supp. to strength. fishery administration to meet requirements Common Fisheries Policy.
Lithuania	CAS/ Apr 1999			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Macedonia, FYR	JCAS/ July 1998 CAS/ Apr 1999 CASPR/ May 2000 TSS/ Aug 2001			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Moldova	CAS/ May 2002			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Poland	CAS/ Nov 2002			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Romania	CAS/ May 2001	Responses	1	EC SAPARD focus on improving processing and marketing of agric. and fishery products.
Russian Federation	CAS/ May 2002			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Slovakia	CAS/ Jan 2001			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Slovenia	CASPR/ Apr 2000	Issues	1	Matrix on Status of H. accession negotiations with EU notes that currently no further negot. are required wrt.. fisheries sector.
Tajikistan	CAS/ Feb 2003			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Turkmenistan	NO CAS avail.
Ukraine	CAS/ Aug 2000			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever
Uzbekistan	CAS/ Feb 2002			No mention of fisheries sector whatsoever

Abbreviations:

CASPR (CAS Progress Report) - Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan, Slovenia
JCAS (Joined CAS) - Macedonia
TSS (Transitional Support Strategy) - Macedonia

5.C The extent to which the fisheries sector is integrated into the European Union Country Strategy Papers (CSP) for Transition Economies

Country	Document/Date	Criteria	Value	Remarks
Albania	2002-6			No mention whatsoever
Armenia	2002-6			No mention whatsoever
Azerbaijan	2002-6	Issues	2	Environ. probl. of Casp. Sea, wrt. fisheries resources discussed
Belarus	NO CSP
Bulgaria	NO CSP
Czech Republic	NO CSP
Estonia	NO CSP
Georgia	2002-6			No mention whatsoever
Hungary	NO CSP
Kazakhstan	NO CSP
Kyrgyzstan	NO CSP
Latvia	NO CSP
Lithuania	NO CSP
Macedonia, FYR	2002-6			No mention whatsoever
Moldova	2002-6			No mention whatsoever
Poland	NO CSP
Romania	NO CSP
Russian Federation	2002-6	Issues	1	European Commission willing to give special attention. to enclave region Kaliningrad, incl. fisheries issues. Russia's rich endowm. w. nat. resources, incl. fisheries, noted
		Responses	2	Europ. Council has authorized Comm. to negotiate Fisheries Coop. Agreement with RF. EC negotiation agenda outlined.
Slovakia	NO CSP
Slovenia	NO CSP
Tajikistan	NO CSP
Turkmenistan	NO CSP
Ukraine	2002-6			No mention whatsoever
Uzbekistan	NO CSP
Central Asia	RSP 2002-4			No mention whatsoever
Eastern Europe/ Central Asia	TRCSP 2004-6	Responses	1	Measures aimed at promoting Sustainable Management of Natural Resources incl. increased level of fish stocks (esp. sturgeon and other sensitive species) among expected results.

Note: The Tacis Regional Cooperation Strategy Paper (TRCSP) complements the individual country strategy papers for Eastern Europe and the Regional Strategy Paper (RSP) for Central Asia. It outlines EC cooperation objectives and identifies three priority fields (Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, Promoting Trade and Investment, Justice and Home Affairs) as well as multi-country intervention strategies to address common challenges faced by the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.