Policy background The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) Management regime
The CFP has undergone a number of reforms since it was introduced. The most recent reform took place in 2013 and introduced a range of measures designed to conserve fisheries resources. These include a commitment to fish at maximum sustainable yield, a ban on discarding fish, and increased regionalisation of fisheries governance. Examples of the management reforms introduced in 2013 are:
	The landing obligation: one of the problems with the quota system is the incentive it provides for fishers to throw over-quota fish back into the sea. To end this wasteful practice, the latest CFP reform introduced a phased landing obligation in 2015, which now requires all catches to be landed.
	Regionalisation: enables only those Member States that share fisheries at a sea basin level to agree and enact regional decisions in EU or national law.