date:Jul 22, 2014
declared that Italy has respected the ban rules, and as such the EU infraction procedure on the illegal use of driftnets had been closed. The European Commission has actually kept Italy on its list of countries to be closely observed since 1995, including official letters and court case. During this time Italy has gone from building loopholes to get around the Regulation, such as the adoption of the ferrettara (a driftnet with a smaller mesh size, but that can still catch highly migratory speci