COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/252

of 29 January 2021

operating a deduction from the Portuguese fishing quota available for anchovy, on account of overfishing in the previous year

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009 establishing a Union control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy, amending Regulations (EC) No 847/96, (EC) No 2371/2002, (EC) No 811/2004, (EC) No 768/2005, (EC) No 2115/2005, (EC) No 2166/2005, (EC) No 388/2006, (EC) No 509/2007, (EC) No 676/2007, (EC) No 1098/2007, (EC) No 1300/2008, (EC) No 1342/2008 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2847/93, (EC) No 1627/94 and (EC) No 1966/2006 (1), and in particular Article 105(1), (2) and (3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Fishing quotas for anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (‘ICES’) zones 9 and 10 and Union waters of Committee for Eastern Central Atlantic Fisheries (‘CECAF’) area 34.1.1 (ANE/9/3411) have been established by Council Regulation (EU) 2019/124 (2), for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020.

(2) Fishing quotas for anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in ICES zones 9 and 10 and Union waters of CECAF area 34.1.1 (ANE/9/3411) have been established by Council Regulation (EU) 2020/123 (3), for the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

(3) Pursuant to Article 105(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, when the Commission has established that a Member State has exceeded the fishing quotas which have been allocated to it, the Commission is to operate deductions from future fishing quotas of that Member State.

(4) Article 105(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 provides that such deductions have to be operated in the following year or years by applying the respective multiplying factors as set out therein.

(5) Portugal has exceeded its fishing quota for anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in ICES zones 9 and 10 and Union waters of CECAF area 34.1.1 (ANE/9/3411) for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020.

(6) It is therefore appropriate to operate a deduction on the fishing quota allocated to Portugal for the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021 and, where relevant, in subsequent years, for the overfished stock,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 The fishing quota allocated to Portugal for anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) zones 9 and 10 and Union waters of Committee for Eastern Central Atlantic Fisheries (CECAF) area 34.1.1 (ANE/9/3411), for the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021, fixed in Regulation (EU) 2020/123, shall be reduced as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 29 January 2021. For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 1.

(2) Council Regulation (EU) 2019/124 of 30 January 2019 fixing for 2019 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters (OJ L 29, 31.1.2019, p. 1).

(3) Council Regulation (EU) 2020/123 of 27 January 2020 fixing for 2020 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters (OJ L 25, 30.1.2020, p. 1).