Regulation (EU) 2020/560 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EU) No. 508/2014 and (EU) No. 1379/2013 as regards specific measures to mitigate the impact of the COVID‐19 outbreak in the fishery and aquaculture sector.

This Regulation was adopted in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and it aims at supporting fishers and fish farmers, which were forced to stay in port or to discard or destroy products as a result from the market disruption caused by the pandemic. Firstly, these provisions lay down some amendments to Regulation (EU) No. 508/2014 on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) by: (i) replacing article 13 on budgetary resources under shared management; (ii) replacing article 55 on public health measures and compensations to mollusc farmers and aquaculture farmers to be supported by the EMFF.
Moreover, Regulation (EU) No. 1379/2013 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products is amended by including provisions on managing temporary storage for aquaculture products. Article 30 (on the storage mechanism applicable to fishery and aquaculture producer organisations) is replaced.