COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
COM(92) 517 final 
Brussels, 3 December 1992 
Amended proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
on the common organization of the market in fishery 
and aquaculture products 
(presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149(3) 
of the EEC Treaty) 
^ 
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
As part of the reform of the common fisheries policy the Commission has 
proposed adjusting ^the common organization of the market in fishery products 
in the light of the depletion of stocks and with a view to improving the 
effectiveness of market support mechanisms and simplifying the rules in 
question. 
To this end, the Commission presented to the Council on 20 March 1992 a 
"Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on the common organization of the 
market in fishery products"!. 
On 20 November 1992 Parliament adopted a resolution giving its opinion on 
the proposal and containing 16 amendments. The Commission agreed to amend 
its initial proposal to take account of the following amendments: 
- specification in the title and Article 1 that the Regulation 
applies to aquaculture products; 
- maintenance of the threshold triggering compensatory allowances 
for producers of tuna for industrial purposes at 93% of the 
Community production price (Article 18); 
- inclusion of the lesser or Greenland halibut and frozen hake 
fillets in the list of products eligible for private storage aid 
(Annex II); 
- withdrawal of frozen hake fillets from Annex V, since these 
products are to be included in Annex II. 
Parliament reserves the right to invoke the conciliation procedure if the 
Council departs from its proposed amendments. 
The Commission on the other hand, has not kept the other amendments taking 
into account : 
- that they are contrary to the control of the production; 
- that they are incompatible with the commitments of the community to 
GATT; 
that they are not justifiable from an economic pount of view. 
COM (92) 79 final of 20 March 1992 
Amended proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) ^ 
on the common organization of the market in fishery 
and aquaculture products 
The Commission's proposal is hereby amended as follows: 
1. In the title of the proposal, insert the words "and aquaculture" 
between "fishery" and "products". 
2. On page 9, insert the following paragraph after the first paragraph 
in Article 1: 
"For the purposes of this Regulation, the expression "fishery 
products" shall include catch products and aquaculture products." 
3. On page 24, on the penultimate line of Article 18(1) replace "85%" 
with "93%". 
4. On page 36, replace point A of Annex II with the following point: 
"A. Frozen products of headings 0303 and 0304 
0303 31 10 Lesser or Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius 
hippoglossoides) 
0303 78 10 and Hake of the genus Merluccius 
0304 20 57" 
5. On page 40, remove from the column "Fish fillets and other fish meat 
(whether or not minced), frozen" the tariff codes "ex 0304 20 57" and 
"ex 0304 90 47", corresponding to hake. 

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