• The European Union's Regional Advisory Councils - A governability assessment of the South Western Waters 

      Duarte, Vasco Tørrissen Guerreiro (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-31)
      The 2002 Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform introduced a set of novelty bodies, the Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) to enhance stakeholder involvement and correct one of the policy’s primary deficiencies, its lack of legitimacy, arising in part from low stakeholder involvement. Based on an analytical study of the South Western Waters RAC (SWWRAC), this thesis illuminates the current capacities ...