The Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA), set up in April 2005 by a decision of llie Council of Ministers (Regulation EC 768/2005), is the keystone of the drive to improve compliance with the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The agency has been up and running since 2007, demonstrating in its first 18 months of activity its capacity to handle its tasks of ensuring more harmonised and fairer monitoring of fishing activities. Its successes include the realtime follow-up of bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean, which led, on 16 June, to the early closure of this fishery. The agency, which moved into its headquarters in Vigo (Spain) on 19 July, has the role of ensuring more effective and uniform enforcement of Community regulations by pooling EU and national fisheries control and monitoring resources and coordinating enforcement activities. This operational coordination is meant to help tackle the shortcomings related to disparities in the means and priorities of member states' control systems.
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