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Strategy against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

The Commission presents a comprehensive strategy to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) which endangers the economy of the fisheries sector, fish stocks and the marine environment. The measures proposed would restrict access to the European Union (EU) market to those fishery products certified compliant with regulations by the flag State or by the export State in question. It also provides for surveillance of activities at sea, identification of IUU operators, improved implementation of legislation in the fisheries field and better application of sanctions in the event of infringements being committed. The initiative falls within the scope of the Community action plan to eradicate IUU fishing adopted in 2002 and follows on from actions carried out internationally (FAO, RFMO).

Clearview AI’s biometric photo database deemed illegal in the EU, but only partial deletion ordered

Clearview AI is a US company that scrapes photos from websites to create a permanent searchable database of biometric profiles. US authorities use the face recognition database to find further information on otherwhise unknown persons in pictures and videos. Following legal submissions by noyb, the Hamburg Data Protection Authority yesterday deemed such biometric profiles of Europeans illegal and ordered Clearview AI to delete the biometric profile of the complainant.

Operation Counterfeit: Over $18 Million Worth of Illegal E-Cigarettes Seized

Brussels denounces China before the WTO for obstacles to the protection of patents of technologies such as 5G

The European Commission has denounced China this Friday before the World Trade Organization (WTO) for the obstacles that Beijing places on European companies with patents in key technologies such as 5G when they resort to national courts to denounce their illegal appropriation by the industry China.

Illegal data exchange between address publisher and credit ranking agency

OLAF PUBLISHES ITS ACTIVITY REPORT

A crumbling bridge built with EU money but substandard materials, plagiarism in an EU research project, tomato importers evading customs duties, a retired official trying to increase his pension by illegal means: these are only four examples demonstrating the large variety of cases in which the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) intervened in 2007. OLAF presented today in Brussels its new Annual Activity Report which illustrates its work inside and outside the EU in 15 case studies and numerous statistical tables. At the end of 2007, OLAF was investigating a total of 408 cases.

A child’s right not to be exploited online

The rights of children - in particular the right of protection from paedophiles operating on the internet - will be discussed Tuesday afternoon by MEPs. The world-wide-web has created a new area of anonymity for those preying on children, with child pornography being rampant. It is illegal to exploit children via the internet and several cases have shown the police are capable of tracking down offenders. Tuesday's debate centres on a report by Italian MEP Roberta Angelilli (UEN).