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Internet-conference - ”EU and the future fishery”.  

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From the 13^th – 16^th of December 2002, The Danish Society For A Living Sea hosts a European fishery internet conference, with the aim of adopting a declaration of support to the coastal fishery and the fishery, which does not damage the stocks, nor the marine environment (the ”real fishery”). The declaration should be delivered to the EU ministers of fishery in connection with the council meeting in Brussels from 16^th –19^th of December. At the council meeting it is expected that agreement will be reached about the fishery reform, which has been on its way for more than 10 years now.

The conference is addressing fishermen, politicians, administrators, biologists, and others with a professional interest in the fishery trade, and the marine environment.

-       signing up: llh@levende-hav.dk

The conference will take place in Hirtshals, at the North of Jutland, where some 20 experts will be gathered. This group will be responsible for the contents and the agenda, in the time up to and during the conference.

The conference itself will be carried out on Sunday the 15^th of December, from 10.00-16.00, with a maximum attendance of 500 people. At 16.00 a press conference will be arranged, where journalists are invited to ask questions to the participants.

The technical part of the conference consists in a so-called ”virtual conference room”. You ”enter” the conference room via a computer, and for active participation in the conference, where you can both read and talk to the other participants, you need access, and a password, which is attained through the mail address llh@levende-hav.dk . Your computer needs to be equipped with a loud speaker and microphone. The conference room, which appears in the shape of a homepage, has the necessary tools, and an introduction in using the room is also available on the site.

A technical leader will be responsible for the technical implementation of the conference, and it will be headed by a conference chairman. The leadership will take place like in an ordinary conference, where the chairman sees to it that all participants get to speak, and that they will be asked to halt, whenever that is necessary. The chairman will also be responsible of keeping the conference on track, i.e. that it will stick to the agenda. If any participants should not act in accordance with common practice, they can be denied the word for a longer period, and receive a warning – a yellow card. In a case of continued disturbance of the order of the conference, the leadership can then decide to give a red card, and expel the participant from the conference.

In the days preceding the main conference, i.e. Friday and Saturday, different kinds of meetings will be held, both entirely unformal ones, as well as more official, and bilateral meetings, in order to get clear on the agenda for the conference, and also to get familiar with the technique. These meetings can take place in several languages. There might be participants who prefer to articulate their questions or comments in another language than English, and they will have a possibility to send their contributions for the preliminary meetings. The time schedule of these meetings will be send out via e-mail to the conference participants, and they will also be found at the www.living-sea.dk

In the days following the conference, i.e.16^th – 19^th December, when the council meeting is taking place in Brussels , the results of the conference will be send to the responsible in the EU commission, in the national governments, and to the European media. These approaches will be in shape of concrete suggestions and comments to the negotiations in Brussels .

 -1. Background for the Internet conference    

- 2. Background for the Internet conference 

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