Summary Report: First E-Reporting and E-Monitoring Intersessional Working Group Meeting (ERandEMWG1)

i. There is a wealth of experience across the participants at ERandEMWG1, and that participants have come with a common purpose of contributing to improving the management of data and streamlining data flows from CCMs and their vessels to the Commission;
ii. The focus for ERandEMWG1 will be on development of draft electronic-reporting data standards;
iii. There is a separate decision by the Commission that is necessary to require CCMs to submit data electronically in a standardized format; and
iv. Development of draft standards for electronic reporting by the Commission is not an entirely new concept, for example the Commission has agreed standards for VMS and Record Fishing Vessels (RFV).