# Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC, Article 32: Financial assistance

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. A fisheries administration may provide financial assistance to third countries through Sustainable fisheries partnership agreements in order to:
(a) support part of the cost of access to the fisheries resources in third country waters; the part of the cost of access to the fisheries resources to be paid by United Kingdom fishing vessel owners shall be assessed for each Sustainable fisheries partnership agreement or a Protocol to it and shall be fair, non-discriminatory and commensurate with the benefits provided through the access conditions;
(b) establish the governance framework, including the development and maintenance of the necessary scientific and research institutions, promote consultation processes with interest groups, and monitoring, control and surveillance capability and other capacity building items relating to the development of a sustainable fisheries policy driven by the third country. Such financial assistance shall be conditional upon the achievement of specific results and complementary to and consistent with the development projects and programmes implemented in the third country in question.
2. Where financial assistance is provided under a Sustainable fisheries partnership agreement—
(a) any financial assistance for sectoral support must be decoupled from payments for access to fisheries resources; and
(b) the agreement must require the achievement of specific results as a condition for payments and the fisheries administration must closely monitor progress.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1380/article/32 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1380/article-32
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