In September 2005, the contracting parties agreed to begin the task of reforming NAFO with an EU-Canadian ad hoc working group chaired by the EU. This came as a result of growing pressure from Canada to reform NAFO. In 2006 the working group came out with its first draft proposals based on The North East Atlantic Fishery Commission (NEAFC) treaty. It gave much more power to the distant water fleet states than the old 1979 NAFO treaty. Some of the first drafts also gave NAFO the right to regulate fisheries within Canada's EEZ. The Draft proposals also changed the voting procedures so a two-thirds majority vote had to be present. But it also changed the objection procedure, that had made it possible for the EU to claim that Canada broke international law, when the EU objected to the turbot quota allocated to the EU in 1995, and Canada seized "Estai". The new treaty amendments were presented in September 2007 and went into force in May 2017, after two-thirds of the contracting parties had ratified the agreement.