Talk:Fisheries Convention

Question
Key question, as it is being claimed by the EU Commission and other countries: was this Convention superseded by subsequent EU Common Fisheries Measures, or was it still extant when the UK Government announced it was pulling out of it on 2nd July 2017? It seems unlikely that the UK Government would be so ill-informed as to bother to rescind something not actually in force. Varnebank (talk) 17:08, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * It's not that easy. The agreement is not part of the EU and it applies. It just may have no practical effect anymore because of the fisheries policy. The question is what happens if the UK leaves without clarity on this issue: will -in the absence of the fisheries policy post brexit- this type of agreement gain again meaning as the "residual regulation"... This also goes for the Brussels Convention and many more... L.tak (talk) 21:35, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Planned?
The UK has planned their withdrawel? It is already done. --84.112.151.27 (talk) 14:29, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
 * do you have a source for that? Until now, we have just a mnister announcing a plan. L.tak (talk) 17:26, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

superseded by EU policy?
Quite some changes to the effect the this convention was superseded by EU law (in 1983). I also saw lots of reports indicating that the 6-12 miles zone still is governed by this convention. I have therefore (for now) removed the statements related directly to the assumption that the convention is superseded. Let's have a discussion on the sources here first and see where we get... L.tak (talk) 15:47, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeed, the regulation 170/83 (EEC) and Article 100/101 of the Accession Treaty of 1972 seem to take over much of the Fisheries convention, so we may need to distinguish between the formal validity of the treaty (yes) and the practical effect (no, or only a bit)... L.tak (talk) 16:32, 16 July 2017 (UTC)