BLOOM Association

EU Legislative Interests

BLOOM advocates for the protection of the ocean, the climate, and small-scale fishers. As a result, over the past years, we have been working on the following legislative and non-legislative files: Regulations and directives: • Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy • Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 on the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measure • Regulation (EU) 2021/1139 establishing the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund • Proposal for a regulation on nature restoration (COM/2022/304 final) • Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy • Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1614 determining the existing deep-sea fishing areas and establishing a list of areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known to occur or are likely to occur • Regulation (EU) 2023/2842 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 November 2023 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, and amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1967/2006 and (EC) No 1005/2008 and Regulations (EU) 2016/1139, (EU) 2017/2403 and (EU) 2019/473 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards fisheries control • Council Directive 2003/96/EC of 27 October 2003 restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity • Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Union and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC • Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 of 25 April 2023 on maximum levels for certain contaminants in food and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 • Regulation (EU) no 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers • Commission Regulation (EC) No 333/2007 of 28 March 2007 laying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of the levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, inorganic tin, 3-MCPD and benzo(a)pyrene in foodstuffs • Directive (EU) 2024/1760 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 on corporate sustainability due diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 and Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 • Directive (EU) 2022/2464 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 amending Regulation (EU) No 537/2014, Directive 2004/109/EC, Directive 2006/43/EC and Directive 2013/34/EU, as regards corporate sustainability reporting • Omnibus I Directive 2025/0044 (COD) amending Directives (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 as regards the dates from which Member States are to apply certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements • Omnibus I Directive 2025/0045 (COD) amending Directives 2006/43/EC, 2013/34/EU, (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 as regards certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements Communication from the Commission: • Communication from the Commission on the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 Bringing nature back into our lives • Communication from the Commission on the EU Action Plan: Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries • Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/1342 of 28 July 2022 on the monitoring of mercury in fish, crustaceans and molluscs • Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament, The Council, The European Economic And Social Committee And The Committee Of The Regions: The European Ocean Pact (COM/2025/281 final) European Parliament resolutions: • European Parliament report toward a sustainable blue economy in the EU: the role of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors (2021/2188(INI))

Communication Activities

All our activities are available on our website : https://bloomassociation.org/ Our recent activities include: Petitions & websites • IPolitics: analysis of the environmental performance of the European Parliament (2019-2024). https://ipolitics.bloomassociation.org/en • The launch of a Coalition for the Ocean, rassembling multiple NGOs and thousands of citizens https://www.oceancoalition.org/en • Petition calling on citizens to call on the European Parliament to make sure « protected » areas are truly protected. https://petitions.bloomassociation.org/en/protect-mpa/ • Petition on the ban of demersal seine https://petitions.bloomassociation.org/fr/interdiction-senne/ • Petition on the ban of mega trawlers in coastal waters https://petitions.bloomassociation.org/fr/stop-mega-trawlers/ • Petition calling for a revision of european maximal limits tolerated for mercury contamination in tuna https://petitions.bloomassociation.org/fr/mercure Reports & Press releases • We publish reports on the social, ecological and economic impact of fisheries: o The Energy Taxation Directive: a keystone of the Green Deal https://www.bloomassociation.org/en/in-brussels-eu-member-states-about-to-bury-climate-ambitions/ o Time for a U-Turn, available here: https://link.bloomassociation.org/CUrFoB o S'affranchir du chalut, available here (in French): https://bloomassociation.org/saffranchir-du-chalut-pour-une-peche-vraiment-durable/ o Against the current. How public action in France misses the challenges of transition: a summary of public subsidies allocated to the French fishing sector between 2020 and 2022, available here: https://link.bloomassociation.org/PHUqn4 o On European regulations concerning maximal levels tolerated for food contaminants, specifically mercury in tuna https://www.bloomassociation.org/en/mercury-contamination-bloom-exposes-a-health-scandal-on-an-unprecedented-scale/ • We publish a variety of press releases along with our petitions, and ahead of key votes and trilogue meetings on the files above. These press releases can be found on our website : https://bloomassociation.org/je-m-informe/nos-ressources-clefs/nos-actualites/ o On marine protected areas, our activities are detailed here : https://bloomassociation.org/nos-campagnes/obtenir-des-aires-marines-reellement-protegees/la-campagne-de-bloom/ o On tuna fisheries and fishing agreements, our activities are detailed here : https://bloomassociation.org/nos-campagnes/peche-en-afrique/notre-campagne/ Events We often organise events aimed to policymakers, civil servants and the general public to publicize our advocacy programmatic objectives. In the last semester we : o Participated to the organisation of events revolving around the ocean week in october 2024 along with other NGOs active in the protection of ocean habitats, aimed to MEP and servants of the European Commission o Organised the launch of an Ocean Coalition in Brussels on October 16th 2024, to which MEP, Council attachés and civil servants of the Commission participated, along with citizens, NGO and activists o Organised on May 14th 2025 an event in the premises of the European Parliament ( SPAAK 7C50 ) focusing on the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive. The event was co-hosted by MEPs Lena Schilling, Matthias Ecke and Yvan Verougstraete. Representatives of the NGO Seas at Risk and Transport & Environment invervened diring the conference

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

Organisations of which BLOOM is a member: Ocean Coalition: https://www.oceancoalition.org/en Decarbonise now: https://decarbonisenow.eu/ DSCC - Deep-sea conservation coalition : http://www.savethehighseas.org/ On the Hook : https://onthehook.org.uk/ Maison des lanceurs d'alerte : https://mlalerte.org/ On our website, we also list other types of "partners": https://bloomassociation.org/nous-connaitre/nos-partenaires/ We are not members of those entities/organizations nor are they members of BLOOM. - other NGOs we are working with (though we are not officially members of their organizations (see "partenaires stratégiques"). - "Partenaires Techniques" are technical suppliers we are working with. - "Soutiens financiers" concern sources of our funding (see below) - "Soutiens de terrains" are mainly fishers, artists but also NGOs and other people who support or have supported our campaigns.

Organisation Members

The members of BLOOM are individuals (natural persons) : 2617 as of June 12th 2025, 325 members as of December 31st 2024, 263 members as of December 31st 2023 and 116 as of December 2022. No organisations or networks are members of our organisation.