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Fisheries Section elects Chair and Steering Committee

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We have a new team to run the ETF Fisheries Section for the 2022 – 2027 period.

The Chair and the Steering Committee were elected during the Fisheries Section meeting held on 15 November 2021. Based on the votes of our members, the new management team of the ETF Fisheries Section is composed as follows:

Chair: Juan Manuel Trujillo Castillo, FSC CCOO, Spain

1st Vice-Chair: Wietze Kampen, CNV, The Netherlands

2nd Vice-Chair: Bruno Dachicourt, CFTC, France

Ordinary members :   

Fabrizio De Pascale, Uilapesca, Italy

Patrizio Giorni, FAI CISL, Italy

Women’s Representative: Sylvie Roux, FGTE-CFDT, France

Young Workers’ Representative: vacant

The Section meeting also approved the work program for the next mandate, as well as the activity report of what has been done and achieved in the last years.

The mandate of the ETF Fisheries Section’s new management team will start after the 6th ETF Congress, which will take place on 22-27 May, 2022.

 

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