The report reviews some binding recommendations adopted during the session, including reporting on aquaculture data and information, managing blackspot seabream fisheries in the Alboran Sea and establishing a regional adaptive management plan for the exploitation of red coral in the Mediterranean. Moreover, issues related to data submission on fishing activities in the GFCM area, a regional plan of action to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and an international joint inspection and surveillance scheme outside the waters under national jurisdiction in the Strait of Sicily were discussed.