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►B COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)No 189/92
of 27 January 1992
adopting provisions for the application of certain control measures adopted by the Northwest
Atlantic Fisheries Organization
(OJ L 21, 30.1.1992, p. 4)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Council Regulation (EC) No 3068/95 of 21 December 1995 L 329 3 30.12.1995
Corrected by:
►C1Corrigendum, OJ L 41, 18.2.1992, p. 23 (189/92)
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)No 189/92
of 27 January 1992
adopting provisions for the application of certain control measures
adopted by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Havingreg ard to the Treaty establishingthe European EconomicCommunity,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 170/83 of 25 January
1983 establishinga Community system for the conservation andmanagement of fishery resources(
1), as amended by the 1985 Act of
Accession and in particular Article 11 thereof,
Havingreg ard to the proposal from the Commission,Whereas the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-
west Atlantic fisheries, hereinafter referred to as the NAFO Convention,was approved by the Council by Regulation (EEC) No 3179/78 (
2) and
entered into force on 1 January 1979;
Whereas the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) estab-
lished by the NAFO Convention adopted a Scheme of Joint Inter-national Inspection which was adopted by the Council in Regulation(EEC) No 1956/88 (
3);
Whereas the NAFO Fisheries Commission, at its 13th Annual Meeting
held in Dartmouth on 13 September 1991, adopted a proposal for theestablishment of a control measure, requiringfishingvessels to commu-nicate certain information regarding their activities in the NAFO regula-tory area; whereas that proposal is acceptable to the Community,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Vessels flyingthe flagof a Member State of the Community to which
the NAFO scheme of joint international inspection applies shall transmitto the Commission of the European Communities and simultaneously totheir competent national authorities, in accordance with the rules laiddown in the Annex, the information set out therein.
Article 2
Within 24 hours of receipt of the reports, whenever possible, the
Commission shall transmit the information contained therein to theExecutive Secretary of NAFO.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States.
(1) OJ No L 24, 27. 1. 1983, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 378, 30. 12. 1978, p. 1.
(3) OJ No L 175, 6. 7. 1988, p. 1.
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ANNEX
1. The communications described below shall be entitled ‘NAFO report'.The
information to be transmitted, which shall be presented in the form speci-fied, is as follows:
1.1. each entry of the vessel into the Regulatory Area. This report shall be made
at least six hours in advance of the vessel’s entry and shall contain thefollowingparticulars in the followingorder:
— name of vessel,
— call sign,— external identification letters and numbers,— the date, the time and geographical position,— indication of the message code: ‘ENTRY',— the NAFO division into which the vessel is about to enter,— the name of the master,
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— species (3 Alpha code) in kilograms (rounded to the nearest 100 kilo-
grams). The total quantity of species for which the total round weight byspecies is less than one tonne may be reported by the 3 Alpha code‘MZZ' (marine fish unspecified);
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1.2. each movement from one NAFO division to another NAFO division except
when movingbetween divisions 3L and 3N, and 3N and 3O under theconditions provided for in 1.3, and each movement ►
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ited zone of 10 miles either side of the lines separatingdivisions 3L and 3N,and 3N and 3O ◄when the conditions set out in 1.3 no longer apply.
These reports shall be made prior to the vessel’s entry into a NAFO divisionand shall contain the followingparticulars in the followingorder:
— name of vessel,
— call sign,— external identification letters and numbers,— the date, the time and geographical position,— indication of the message code: ‘MOVE',— the NAFO division into which the vessel is about to enter,— the name of the master;
1.3. vessels conductingtrans-zonal fishery between NAFO Divisions 3L and 3N
or between divisions 3N and 3O which cross the line separatingthesedivisions more than once duringa period of 24 consecutive hours, andprovided that they remain within the delimited zone (of 10 miles either sideof the line between the divisions) shall report when first crossingthe linebetween the divisions and at intervals not exceeding24 hours thereafter(while remainingin the delimited zone), the followingparticulars in thefollowingorder:
— name of vessel,
— call sign,— external identification letters and numbers,— the date, the time and geographical position,— indication of the message code: ‘ZONE',— the name of the master;
1.4. each exit from the Regulatory Area. ►
M1These reports shall be made at
least six hours in advance of the vessel’s exit from the Regulatory Area andshall contain the followingparticulars in the followingorder ◄:
— name of vessel,
— call sign,— external identification letters and numbers,— the date, the time of geographical position,— indication of the message code: ‘EXIT',— the NAFO division from which the vessel is about to leave,— the name of the master,
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— species (3 Alpha code) in kilograms (rounded to the nearest 100 kilo-
grams). The total quantity of species for which the total round weight byspecies is less than one tonne may be reported by the 3 Alpha code‘MZZ' (marine fish unspecified);
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1.5 transshipment in the Regulatory Area. This report shall be made 24 hours in
advance and shall contain the followingparticulars in the followingorder:
— name of vessel,
— call sign,— extend identification letters and numbers,— the date, time and geographical position,— indication of the message code: ‘TRANS',— the total round weight by species (3 Alpha code) to be transshipped in
kilograms (rounded to the nearest 100 kilograms),
— the name of the master;
1.6 vessels equipped with devices which enable the automatic transmission of
their position are exempt from the hail requirements set out in 1.2 and 1.3.
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2. Without prejudice to the provisions set down in Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 2807/83 of 22 September 1983 layingdown detailed rules forrecordinginformation on Member States’ catches of fish (
1), after each radio
transmission of the information described in point 1 the followingdetailsare to be immediately entered in the logbook:
— date and time of the transmission,
— in the case of radio transmissions, the name of the radio station through
which the transmission was made.
3.1. The information specified under point 1 shall be transmitted to the Commis-
sion of the European Communities in Brussels (telex 24189 FISEU-B) andto the competent national authorities of the Member State whose flagthevessel is flying.
3.2. If it is impossible for reasons of force majeure for the message to be
transmitted by the vessel, it may be transmitted on the vessel’s behalf byanother vessel.
(1) OJ No L 276, 10. 10. 1983, p. 1.