Panama leads the exchange of information against illegal fishing with the implementation of the GIES platform Food and Agriculture Fund of the United Nations (FAO).
Panama is committed to leading the implementation of the Global Information Exchange System, which includes the most important international agreement to combat illegal unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), such as Agreement on Port State Measures (AMERP).
This was revealed this week during a workshop on the possibilities of interconnection between the national platform and the FAO AMERP GIES platform, in which the chief administrator Water Resources Authority of Panama (ARAP), Flor Torrijos and Secretary General, Carlos Castro, and for FAO, Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Specialist, Daniel Molina and consultants Gregorie Pichenot and Paul Griselhuber.
To date, the Agreement on Port State Measures has 75 signatory countries, including the European Union (EU).
At the Meeting of the Parties in Bali attended by Administrator Torrijos, FAO was able to achieve this important exchange with experts in the process of making Panama a Leader of the Region in transparent governance through the GIES global platform.
The ARAP administrator claims that all this week the institution’s developers, as well as the technical team, the Fisheries Monitoring Center and the National Administration for Inspection, Surveillance and Control will participate in a workshop to work together on a unified interface of the various platforms developed by both ARAP and FAO , for proper implementation in Panama.
In this sense, Torrijos indicated that the human team of the entity is involved in reviewing not only the process, but also the codification for the implementation of this project, at the same time expressing his deep gratitude to FAO for the support that will allow Panama to become a leader in the implementation of the GIES platform, in this pilot phase.
Currently, the Global Information Exchange System (GIES) is in the pilot phase, and in the last two-year period it was agreed that it will be mandatory for the parties at the beginning of next January, with a period of Thank you for the implementation.
Panama is leading the initiative starting early with information sharing and internal database management
Source: Panama America
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