To strengthen the dialogue with the fisheries sector and other interested parties, the Commission has set up the Advisory Committee on Fisheries at the beginning of the 1970s. The Committee was reformed at the end of 1999 to make it more efficient and to broaden the dialogue with the industry and other stakeholders, such as the aquaculture sector, the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and scientists. It became the Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (ACFA) (Commission Decision n° 1999/478/EC and Commission Decision n° 2004/864/EC) . The aim of ACFA is to provide advice to the Commission on any CFP initiatives with a European perspective.