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►B COUNCIL DECISION
of 27 November 1989
on a Community financial contribution towards expenditure incurred by Member States for the
purpose of ensuring compliance with the Community system for the conservation and management
of fishery resources
(89/631/EEC)
(OJ L 364, 14.12.1989, p. 64)
Amended by:
Official Journal
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►M1Council Decision 92/393/EEC of 20 July 1992 L 213 35 29.7.1992
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COUNCIL DECISION
of 27 November 1989
on a Community financial contribution towards expenditure
incurred by Member States for the purpose of ensuring compliancewith the Community system for the conservation and management
of fishery resources
(89/631/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee(3),
Whereas the common fisheries policy, which guarantees the long-term
existence of fishery stocks and thus employment in this sector, canachieve its objectives only if its rules are complied with absolutely andthus if enforcement is effective;
Whereas the Member States, in ensuring compliance with the conserva-
tion and control rules of the common fisheries policy within theirfishery zones and on their territory, are carrying out an obligation ofCommunity interest;
Whereas for some Member States the scale of the enforcement task is
unrelated to budgetary capacity or relative prosperity and may in certaincases constitute a disproportionate burden;
Whereas it is therefore appropriate to provide for a contribution by the
Community towards certain enforcement expenditure incurred bycertain of those Member States;
Whereas the total Community contribution should remain within the
limits of a budgetary provision of ECU 22 million per annum over aninitial period of five years and the corresponding financial resourceswill be entered as annual appropriations in the general budget of theEuropean Communities;
Whereas any such contribution should be conditional on the attainment,
by the Member States which are beneficiaries, of a satisfactory standardof enforcement both at sea and on land,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
1. The Community shall, under the conditions laid down in the
Annex, contribute to the financing of the expenditure incurred byMember States in enforcing the Community arrangements for theconservation and management of fishery resources.
(1) OJ NoC 152, 20. 6. 1989, p. 5.
(2) OJ NoC 120, 16. 5. 1989, p. 235.
(3) OJ NoC 139, 5. 6. 1989, p. 36.
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Pending the adoption of Community rules for the conservation andmanagement of fishery resources applicable to Mediterranean waters,the Community shall contribute under the same conditions as those setout in this Decision to the financing of the expenditure incurred by theMember States concerned to ensure compliance with the rules applic-able. Member States which wish to benefit from this contribution shallnotify such rules to the Commission and justify their merits.
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2. The Community contribution shall relate to eligible expenditureincurred by Member States from 1 January 1991 to 31 December 1995.
3. For any Member States in any year, the Community contribution
shall not be lower than 35 % or higher than 50 % of the eligibleexpenditure.
4. The Community may grant advances up to a maximum of 50 % of
its contribution.
5. The Council, acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 43 of the Treaty and on the basis of a Commission report on theapplication of this Decision, shall decide before 30 June 1995 on theprovisions for Community participation which might apply from 1January 1996.
Article 2
1. Member States wishing to benefit from the Community contribu-
tion to the financing of expenditure shall forward to the Commission, onthe first occasion before 30 June 1990 and subsequently before 30 Juneof each year, a schedule containing the information specified in para-graph 2 of the Annex.
2. The Commission shall decide, on the first occasion before 31
December 1990 and subsequently before 31 December of each year, inaccordance with the procedure laid down in Article 14 of CouncilRegulation (EEC) No 170/83 of 25 January 1983 establishing aCommunity system for the conservation and management of fisheryresources(
1), as amended by the 1985 Act of Accession, on the
Community contribution, the eligibility of planned expenditure and anyconditions to which the contribution may be subject.
3. The European Parliament and the Council shall be informed by the
Commission, by 31 March of the year following the latter’s decision, ofthe actions undertaken in accordance with this Decision and the impro-vementsnoted in the supervision of fishing activities by the MemberStates.
Article 3
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
(1) OJ NoL 24, 27. 1. 1983, p. 1.
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ANNEX
1. The eligible expenditure of Member States may relate to the acquisition or
modernization of:
— vessels, aircraft and land vehicles employed in the monitoring and super-
vision of fishing activities, including their equipment,
— systems for the detection and recording of fishing activities (including
equipment installed on fishing vessels),
— systems (including land-based systems) for recording and transmitting
catch data and other relevant information.
2. The schedule referred toin Article 2 (1) shall state the expenditure falling
under paragraph 1 envisaged for the following years. It shall specify inparticular:
— the technical features and cost of the equipment and the method of
payment envisaged,
— the timetable for the expenditure envisaged,— the use planned for the equipment, including the date of entry into service,— in the case of vessels or aircraft or equipment to be installed on vessels or
aircraft, the proposed programme of operations for the monitoring andsupervision of fishing activities by such vessels or aircraft.
Member States shall give a precise account of their present organization,
activities, problems and achievements in the field of fisheries enforcement atsea and on land and explain how the expenditure envisaged will improveperformance.
To this end, the Member States shall set specific objectives in accordance
with their own priorities.
3. The Commission shall consider each Member State’s application by reference
to the following criteria in particular:
— in the case of expenditure on the purchase of vessels, aircraft or land
vehicles, the amount of time which they will devote to fisheries enforce-ment,
— the approximate relative size of the enforcement burden of the Member
State on land and at sea, having regard in particular to the volume offishing activity in its fishery zone, the extent of the latter, the nember andthe volume of landings in its ports, the length of its coastline, the numberof its fishing ports and the geographical distribution of the activities of itsfleet,
— the use made by a Member State of any financial contribution granted
under this Decision in any previous year,
— the improvement in the Member State’s performance in fisheries enforce-
ment at sea and on land in the period preceding the application and theimprovement likely to result from the expenditure envisaged.
4. In considering a Member State’s enforcement performance the Commission
shall have regard to the following considerations in particular:
— the prevention, discovery and pursuit of infringements against the conser-
vation and control rules,
— the presence in national legislation and the application in practice of
penalties that are commensurate with the seriousness of infringements andeffectively discourage further infringements of the same kind,
— the reliability of the catch figures forwarded by the Member State to the
Commission and the Member State’s ability to prevent the ovefishing ofits quotas,
— the amount and the effectiveness of the human and material resources
devoted by the Member State concerned to fisheries enforcement,
— the diversity of the fishing activity in the fishery zone of the said State,— the degree of cooperation in fisheries enforcement between that Member
State and other Member States and the Commission,
— in appropriate cases, that Member State’s contribution to fisheries
enforcement in areas governed by international conventions to which theCommunity is a Contracting Party and the scale and effectiveness of thisenforcement.
5. Member States shall submit their applications for reimbursement before 30
April of the year following that in which the expenditure was incurred.
The reimbursement of expenditure and the payment of advances shall be
made only if the provisions of the directives coordinating procedures for theaward of public works and supply contracts have been complied with, in thesense that the certificates for payment must make reference to the notices onthe award of public contracts, published in the Official Journal of the Euro-
pean Communities . In case of non-publication of the notices in the Official
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Journal of the European Communities , the beneficiary shall certify that the
public contracts have been awarded in conformity with Community legisla-tion.
The Commission may request any information which it considers necessary
for judging whether Community legislation on public contracts has beenrespected.
6. Member States shall supply the Commission with any information which it
may request for the performance of its duties under this Decision.
Should the Commission consider that monitoring and supervision facilities
partly financed by the Community under this Decision are not being used forthe intended purpose or in accordance with the conditions defined under thisDecision, it shall inform the Member State concerned accordingly. TheMember State shall then conduct an administrative inquiry in which Commis-sion officials may participate. The Member State shall inform the Commis-sion of the progress and results of the inquiry and provide the Commissionwith a copy of the report of the inquiry and the principal data used in thepreparation of the report.
The Commission may carry out checks on the fulfilment of their duties under
this Decision by the Member States, which shall provide assistance to thestaff appointed by the Commission for this purpose.
The provisions of this paragraph shall be without prejudice to Article 12 of
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2241/87 of 23 July 1987 establishing certaincontrol measures for fishing activities (
1), as amended by Regulation (EEC)
No3483/88 (2).
(1) OJ NoL 207, 29. 7. 1987, p. 1.
(2) OJ NoL 306, 11. 11. 1988, p. 2.