April 21, 2015 — The EU gave Tuesday (21 April) a "yellow card" over illegal fishing to Thailand, one of the EU’s main suppliers of cheap fish products.
"As a result of a thorough analysis and a series of discussions with Thai authorities since 2011, the Commission has denounced the country's shortcomings in its fisheries monitoring, control and sanctioning systems and concludes that Thailand is not doing enough," said the EU commission in a statement.
A procedure of dialogue is now open with Thailand, which has six months to take measures or face a EU ban of its products.
"As a minimum, control and monitoring measures and enforcement measures should come into place," said EU fisheries commissioner Karmenu Vella at a press conference in Brussels.
If Thai authorities are not cooperative enough, the EU will "move to further drastic measures like trade sanctions," he said.
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