The Global Record Working Group provides guidance on the way forward
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25 experts of member States of and observers to the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) convened in Rome, 23–25 February 2015, at the first meeting of the Global Record Informal Open-Ended Technical and Advisory Working Group.
The experts agreed that the Global Record fulfils a crucial role as a tool to fight IUU fishing in support of a variety of existing binding and voluntary fisheries instruments; that the function of the Global Record is not restricted to that of an authorized list of vessels; that the Global Record should include authorization, compliance and historical data, most of which should be in the public domain; that States are responsible for providing information to the Global Record; that core specialized working groups should be established to deal with particular matters, mainly at the technical level; and that a pilot version of the Global Record should be developed.
The Report of the Global Record Informal Open-Ended Technical and Advisory Working Group is available here.
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