No C 257/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 25.9. 84 
II 
(Preparatory Acts) 
COMMISSION 
Proposal for a Council Regulation on the conclusion of an Agreement between the 
Government of the United States of America and* the European Economic Community 
concerning fisheries of the coasts of the United States 
COM(84) 3 90 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 12 July 1984) 
(84/C 257/04) 
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, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
Whereas the Agreement between the Government of 
the United States of America and the Community 
concerning fisheries off the coasts of the United 
States, initialled on 27 June 1984, should be 
concluded; 
Whereas it is appropriate to provide for specific pro­
cedures for terminating the Agreement if special 
circumstances arise which make it impossible for the 
Community to continue the Agreement, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
The Agreement between the Government of the 
United States of America and the European 
Economic Community concerning fisheries off the 
coasts of the United States, together with the Annex 
and the Agreed Minutes which form integral parts of 
the Agreement, are hereby approved on behalf of the 
Community. The text of the Agreement, the Annex and the 
Agreed Minutes are annexed to this Regulation. 
Article 2 
The President of the Council is hereby authorized to 
designate the persons empowered to sign the 
Agreement binding the Community. 
The President of the Council shall, on behalf of the 
Community, give the notification as to the entry into 
force of the Agreement as provided for in Article 
XIX of the Agreement. 
Article 3 
1. If the situation described in Agreed Minute No 
7 arises, the Commission, at the request of a Member 
State or on its own initiative, may terminate the 
Agreement under Article XIX thereof and following 
the procedure laid down in paragraph 2 below. 
2. The Commission shall give the Council at least 
one month's notice of its intention to terminate the 
Agreement under paragraph 1. Within 10 days of the 
giving of notice any Member State may raise the 
question in the Council; the Council may decide by a 
qualified majority that the Agreement shall not be 
terminated. If no such decision is taken within a 
period of one month following the giving of notice 
referred to above, the Commission may terminate the 
Agreement. 
3. In any situation other than that referred to in 
paragraph 1, the Council may decide to terminate the 
Agreement by a qualified majority on a proposal from 
the Commission. The Council shall adopt a decision 
within two months of submission of the Commission's 
proposal. 
4. The Commission shall, on behalf of the 
Community, give notice of any termination under 
Article XIX of the Agreement. 
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Article 4 
The owner or operator of a Member State vessel 
fishing or otherwise operating under the Agreement 
shall provide the appropriate authorities within the 
Community with such information as may be pre­
scribed concerning the fish or fishery products 
harvested or otherwise obtained pursuant to the 
Agreement. Detailed rules to this effect shall be 
adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down 
The Government of the United States of America and 
the European Economic Community (hereinafter 
referred to as 'the Community'), 
Considering their common concern for the rational 
management, conservation and achievement of 
optimum yield of fish stocks off the coasts of the 
United States, 
Recognizing that the United States has established by 
Presidential Proclamation of 10 March 1983 an 
exclusive economic zone within 200 nautical miles of 
its coasts within which the United States has 
sovereign rights to explore, exploit, conserve and 
manage all fish and that the United States also has 
such rights over the living resources of the continental 
shelf appertaining to the United States and 
anadromous species of fish of United States origin, 
Recognizing that the Community has been 
cooperating for the rational management and conser­
vation of the living resources off the coasts of the 
United States and that Community fishermen 
traditionally have been cooperating in the 
development of these resources under the Agreement 
between the Government of the United States and the 
European Economic Community concerning fisheries 
off the coasts of the United States, signed 15 
February 1977, 
Desirous of establishing reasonable terms and 
conditions pertaining to fisheries of mutual concern 
over which the United States has sovereign rights to 
explore, exploit, conserve and manage, in Article 33 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3796/ 
81 (l). 
Article 5 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day 
following 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. 
O OJ No L 379, 31. 12. 1981, p. 1. 
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS: 
Article I 
The purpose of this Agreement is to promote effective 
conservation, rational management and the 
achievement of optimum yield in the fisheries of 
mutual interest off the coasts of the United States, to 
facilitate the rapid and full development of the United 
States fishing industry and to establish a common 
understanding of the principles and procedures under 
which fishing may be conducted by nationals and 
vessels of the Member States of the Community for 
the living resources over which the United States has 
sovereign rights to explore, exploit, conserve and 
manage. 
Article II 
As used in this Agreement, the term: 
1. 'living resources over which the United States has 
sovereign rights to explore, exploit, conserve and 
manage' means all fish within the exclusive 
economic zone of the United States (except highly 
migratory species of tuna), all anadromous species 
of fish that spawn in the fresh or estuarine waters 
of the United States and migrate to ocean waters 
while present in the United States exclusive 
economic zone and in areas beyond national 
fisheries jurisdictions recognized by the United 
States and all living resources of the continental 
shelf appertaining to the United States; AGREEMENT 
Between the Government of the United States of America and the European Economic 
Community concerning fisheries off the coasts of the United States