COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/1924

of 3 November 2021

amending and correcting Implementing Regulation (EU) No 185/2013 as regards deductions from fishing quotas allocated to Spain for 2023

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 Community 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(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) In 2013, the Commission adopted Implementing Regulation (EU) No 185/2013 (2) providing for deductions from the mackerel quota allocated to Spain in 2013 and subsequent years in ICES division 8c, ICES subareas 9 and 10 and Union waters of CECAF 34.1.1 and from the anchovy quota in ICES subarea 8 on account of overfishing of the mackerel quota in 2009.

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1244 (3) amended Implementing Regulation (EU) No 185/2013 as regards the deductions from fishing quotas allocated to Spain in 2020 and 2023. Spain had requested to use the 3 341 tonnes unfished in 2019 for deductions for 2019 and to decrease the deductions provided by Implementing Regulation (EU) No 185/2013 for the years 2020 and 2023. The deduction to operate on the relevant mackerel quota for the year 2019 as set in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2020/1244 should have been increased with these 3 341 unfished tonnes. As this addition was inadvertently omitted, the quantities for deductions for 2019 should be corrected. Spain did not fish 114 tonnes of the relevant mackerel quota in 2020, thus exercising a lower fishing pressure on that stock compared to the maximum quantity allowed by the fishing opportunities allocated for that year. Spain has requested to use those unfished quantities for deductions for 2020 and to decrease the deductions provided by Implementing Regulation (EU) No 185/2013 for the year 2023 accordingly. The quantities for deductions for 2020 and for 2023 established in Implementing Regulation (EU) No 185/2013 should be adapted.

(3) The amounts deducted from the quotas for mackerel in 2023 after the changes would still continue ensuring that the fishing opportunities for those species are not exceeded, in line with the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy.

(4) Implementing Regulation (EU) No 185/2013 should therefore be corrected and amended accordingly.

(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 185/2013 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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, 3 November 2021. For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

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

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 185/2013 of 5 March 2013 providing for deductions from certain fishing quotas allocated to Spain in 2013 and subsequent years on account of overfishing of a certain mackerel quota in 2009 (OJ L 62, 6.3.2013, p. 1).

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1244 of 1 September 2020 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 185/2013 concerning deductions from fishing quotas allocated to Spain for 2020 and 2023 (OJ L 286, 2.9.2020, p. 9).