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The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Mr Owen Paterson)
The next Agriculture and Fisheries Council is on Thursday 17 October in Luxembourg. The Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Camborne and Redruth (George Eustice), will be representing the UK. Richard Lochhead MSP may also attend.
The Council will concentrate on fisheries items. There are no agricultural items scheduled for this Council.
The agenda items are as follows:
Council regulation fixing the 2014 fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks applicable in the Baltic sea
EU /Norway: annual consultation for 2014
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) annual meeting— exchange of views
AOB item: north-east Atlantic mackerel management and coastal state negotiations