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| 24.4.2012 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 112/6 |
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24.4.2012

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 112/6

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ANNEX V

List referred to in Article 18 of the Act of Accession: transitional measures

List referred to in Article 18 of the Act of Accession: transitional measures

6.   FISHERIES

FISHERIES

32006 R 1967: Council Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006 of 21 December 2006 concerning management measures for the sustainable exploitation of fishery resources in the Mediterranean Sea, amending Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1626/94 (OJ L 409, 30.12.2006, p. 11. Corrected version in OJ L 36, 8.2.2007, p. 6).

| (a) | By way of derogation from Article 13(1) and (2), at depths of less than 50 metres, vessels registered and operating only in the Western Istria region shall be temporarily allowed, until 30 June 2014, to use bottom trawls at a minimum distance of 1,5 nautical miles from the coast.
  This derogation shall apply in the area designated as Western Istria, defined from the point with geographic coordinates φ=44.52135 and λ=14.29244 with a line due north and a line due west.
  For vessels the overall length of which is less than 15 metres, at depths of over 50 metres Croatia shall be temporarily allowed, until 30 June 2014, to use bottom trawls at a minimum distance of 1 nautical mile from the coast, maintaining all other spatial and temporal restrictions applied on the date of accession. |
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(a)

By way of derogation from Article 13(1) and (2), at depths of less than 50 metres, vessels registered and operating only in the Western Istria region shall be temporarily allowed, until 30 June 2014, to use bottom trawls at a minimum distance of 1,5 nautical miles from the coast.

This derogation shall apply in the area designated as Western Istria, defined from the point with geographic coordinates φ=44.52135 and λ=14.29244 with a line due north and a line due west.

For vessels the overall length of which is less than 15 metres, at depths of over 50 metres Croatia shall be temporarily allowed, until 30 June 2014, to use bottom trawls at a minimum distance of 1 nautical mile from the coast, maintaining all other spatial and temporal restrictions applied on the date of accession.

| (b) | By way of derogation from Article 17(1), a limited number of vessels included in the specific category of non-commercial fisheries ‘small scale artisanal fishing for personal needs’, which shall not exceed 2 000 vessels, shall be allowed to use maximum 200 metres of gillnets until 31 December 2014, provided that all other restrictions in place on the date of accession continue to apply. Croatia shall submit to the Commission on the date of accession, at the latest, the list of vessels covered by this transitional period, including their characteristics and capacity, expressed in terms of GT and kW. |
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(b)

By way of derogation from Article 17(1), a limited number of vessels included in the specific category of non-commercial fisheries ‘small scale artisanal fishing for personal needs’, which shall not exceed 2 000 vessels, shall be allowed to use maximum 200 metres of gillnets until 31 December 2014, provided that all other restrictions in place on the date of accession continue to apply. Croatia shall submit to the Commission on the date of accession, at the latest, the list of vessels covered by this transitional period, including their characteristics and capacity, expressed in terms of GT and kW.

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