{"id":70432,"date":"2016-05-12T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T08:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f84fb78e1ac079f52d93cbbf26f8eaa6"},"modified":"2016-05-12T08:54:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T08:54:59","slug":"news-story-successful-emff-flags-in-england-proceed-to-next-stage-of-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70432","title":{"rendered":"News story: Successful EMFF FLAGs in England proceed to next stage of selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Marine Management Organisation (<abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr>) is delighted to announce the six <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/european-maritime-and-fisheries-fund-emff-fisheries-local-action-groups-flags\">Fisheries Local Action Groups (<abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr>)<\/a> who will move forward to the next stage of selection under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (<abbr title=\"European Maritime and Fisheries Fund\">EMFF<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen Stage 1 applications from potential <abbr title=\"European Maritime and Fisheries Fund\">EMFF<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> were considered by the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr>, <abbr title=\"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs\">Defra<\/abbr> and a representative of the rural development programme for England. The final decision was made at an <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> panel meeting on 27 April 2016. As part of the process, FLAG strategies were considered covering areas such as sustainability, growth and assistance with legislative changes as a result of Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform.<\/p>\n<p>The successful <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> were announced as: Cornwall, Dorset and East Devon, Hastings, Holderness, North of Tyne and North Thames. These <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> will now prepare for the next stage of the selection process later this year by producing Local Development Strategies outlining the needs of their local area.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Willis (<abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr>, Chief Finance Officer) who chaired the selection panel said:<br \/>\n\u201cSelection of the six <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> to proceed to the next stage was incredibly difficult because all potential <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> presented compelling strategies and the overall quality of applications was high. However, after much discussion and consideration it is great to be able to identify the six <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> who will proceed to the next stage of the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am also personally pleased with the spread of FLAG experience we have been able to achieve, three of the <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> were previously European Fisheries Fund (EFF) <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> whilst three are new to the process, but have a wealth of experience in delivering programmes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to seeing the strategies of the <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> further develop and I would like to thank all of the <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> who took part in the process for their considerable work and effort. During this next stage we will be looking to allocate the \u20ac6.4 million budget, based on the strength of strategies received\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Over the next three weeks the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> will feature blogs from three of the successful <abbr title=\"Fisheries Local Action Groups\">FLAGs<\/abbr> and these will be available on the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/marinedevelopments.blog.gov.uk\/\">marine developments blog<\/a>.    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Fisheries Local Action Groups (FLAGs) move to next stage of selection under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}