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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(80)661 final
Brussels,4November1980
Proposalfora
COUNCILREGULATION (EEC)
amendingRegulation (EEC)No3179/78concerning theconclusion bythe
EuropeanEconomicCommunityoftheConvention onfuturemultilateral
cooperation intheNorth-WestAtlanticFisheries
(submittedtotheCouncilbytheCommission )
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
AtitsfirstAnnualMeetingon7June1979theGeneralCouncilofthe
Northwest .AtlanticFisheriesOrganization adoptedamendmentsto.AnnexIII
ofthe-Convention onFutureMultilateral Cooperation intheNorthwest
AtlanticFisheries,pursuanttoArticleXX,paragraph 2ofthesame
Convention .
Theseamendmentsaffecttheboundarybetweenthestatistical subareas
inthewatersbetweentheWestcoastofGreenland andthecoastof
Canada.Corresponding changesweremadeonantemporarybasisto
thetextoftheConventionasitappearsinCouncilRegulation (EEC)
No.3179/78,concerningtheconclusion bytheEuropeanEconomicCommunityof
theConvention onFutureMultilateral Cooperation intheNorthwestAtlantic
Fisheries,byRegulation (EEC)No.653/80.SincethisRegulationexpireson
31December1980,itisnecessarytoreplaceitwitha
RegulationbasedonArticle43oftheTreaty.
s -
TheCommissionthereforeinvitestheCounciltoadopttheRegulationto
whichadraftisattachedbefore31December1980,afterconsultation of
theEuropeanParliament.

+ Proposal foraCouncil Regulation
amending Regulation (EEC)No3179/78concerning the
conclusion bytheEuropean Economic Community ofthe
Convention onfuture multilateral cooperation inthe
North-West Atlantic Fisheries
THECOUNCIL OFTHEEUROFEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard totheTreaty establishing theEuropean Economic Community ,
andinparticular Article 43thereof ,
Having regard totheproposal from theCommission ,
Having regard totheopinion oftheEuropean Parliament ,
Whereas .t;heCommunity ,byCouncil Regulation X'EEC )No3179 /78 (1)approved
the Convention onfuture multilateral cooperation inthe North-West Atlantic
fisheries ; < '
Whereas on7June 1979 theGeneral Council oftheNorth-West Atlantic Fisheries
Organization adopted with effect from 1January 1980amendments toAnnex IIIto
theConvention onfuture multilateral cooperation intheNorth –West Atlantic
Fisheries ,pursuant toArticle XX,paragraph 2,ofthesame Convention ,which
concern thedelimitation oftheboundary between thestatistical sub–areas
covering thewaters between thewest coast ofGreenland andthecoast ofCanada
Whereas thetext oftheConvention has .consequently been amended byCouncil
Regulation (EEC)No653/80.(2 ),theapplication ofwhich was,however ,limited
to31December 1980 ,since itwasadopted asaninterim measure onthebasis
ofArticle 103oftheTreaty ;
(1)0JNoL378,30.12.1978 ,p.1.
(2)OJ I;0L74,20.3.1980 ,p.'1.

Whereasitisthereforenecessarytoprovide,forthedefinitiveamenamentof
theRegulation (EEC)No3179/78afore-mentioned .
HASADOPTEDTHISREGULATION : J, .
Article 1
Paragraphs1(a)and2(a)ofAnnexIIItotheConventiononfuturemultilateral
cooperationintheNorth–WestAtlanticFisheries,publishedintheAnnexto
Regulation(EEC)No3179/78,shallbeamendedinconformitywiththeAnnexto
thisRegulation.
Article2
Regulation (EEC)No653/80isherebyrepealed.
Article3
ThisRegulationshallenterintoforceonthethirddayfollowingits
publicationintheOfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities .
ι
ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicablein
allMemberStates.
DoneatBrussels. FortheCouncil
ThePresident

ANNEX
Paragraph 1(a)ofAnnexIIItotheConventionshallbereplacedbythefollowing:
*1.(a)Sub-area0–thatportionoftheConventionAreaboundedonthesouthbyaline
extendingdueeastfromapointat61°00'northlatitudeand65°00'west
longitudetoapointat61°00'northlatitudeand59°00'westlongitude,
thenceinasouth-easterly directionalongarhumblinetoapointat60°12'
northlatitudeand57°13'westlongitude;thenceboundedontheeastbya
seriesofgeodesiclinesjoiningthefollowingpoints:
PointNo Latitude Longitude
1 60120 57"13Ό
2 6Γ00Ό 57°13Ί
3 62005 57°2ri
4 62°02'3 57°21'8
5 62°03'5 57°22'2
6• 62°11'5 '57°25'4
.7 62(>47'2 57°41'0
8 -63°22'8. 57°57'4
9 63°28'6 57°59'7
10 63°35'0 58°02'0
11 63°37'2 58°01'2
12 63441 57°58'8
13 63°501. «57°57'2
14 > 63°52'6 57°56'6
15. 63°57'4 57°53'5
16 64°04'3 57°49'1 .
17 64°12'2 57°48'2
18 65°06'0 57°44'1
19 65°08'9 57°43'9'
20 65°11'6 57°44'4
21 -65°14'5 ,57°45'1
22 65181 57°45'8
23 65°23'3 57°44'9
24 65°34'8 57°42'3
25 65°37'7 57°4Γ9
26 65°50'9 57°40'7
27 65°51'7 ,57°40'6
28 65°57'6 57°40'1
29 ' 66°03'5 57°39'6
30 66°12'9 57°38'2
31 66°18'8 57°37'8
32 '66°24'6 57°37'8
33 66°30'3' 57°38'3
34 66°36'1 57°39'2
35 66°37'9 57°39'6
36 66d41'8 57°40'6
37 66°49'5 57°43'0
38 .' 67°21'6 57°52'7
39 67°27'3 57°54'9
40 67°28'3 57°55'3
41 67291 57561
42 67307 57°57'8
43' 67°35'3 58°02'2
44 67°39'7 58°06'2
45 N 67°44'2 - 58°09'9
.46 67°56'9 58°19'8'
47 68°01'8 58°23'3
48 '68°04'3 .58°25'0
49 68°06'8 58°26'7
50 68°07'5 '58°27'2
51 68161 58°34'1
"52 .68°2Γ7' 58°39'0
53 68253 58°42'4
54 68°32'9 '59°01'8

PointNo
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59
60
61tNo -Latitude 'Longitude
15 68°34'0 59I04^
16 68°37'9 .
;7 68°38'0 ..5914,6
cg 68°56'8 60°024
59 69°00'8 ,60°09'0
so 69°06'8 60°18'5
61'-69°10'3 60°238
62 69°12'8 60°27'5
"69°29'4 60°516" 69°49'8 -60°58'2
65 .69°55'3 60°59'6
66 /69°55'8-,'61°00'0
67 -70°01'6 61°04'2
68 70°07'5'61°08'1
69 70°08'8 61°088
70 70°13'4 61°10'6
71 70°33'1 61°17'4
77 70°35'6 61°20'6
73 70°48'2 ,61°37'9
-ta -70°51'8 ''61°42'7
71°12Ί 62°091
71°18'9 62°17'5
71°25'9 62°25'57-S-4 62°29'3
7Γ3Γ8 62°320
71°32'9 62°335
71°44'7' 62°49'6
71°47'3 62°53'1
71°52'9' .63°03'9
72°01"7 63°211
72°06'4 63°309
72°1Γ0 63°410
72°24'8 64°132
72°30'5 64°26'1
72°36'3 64°38'8
72°43'7 ,64°54'3
72°45'7 64°58'4
72°47'7 ,■..65°00'9
72°50'8 *'65°07'6
73°18'5 '*66°08'3
73°25'9 66°25'3
73°31'1 ,67°151
73°36'5 68°055
73°37'9 68°12'3
,73°41'7 • 68°29'4
73°46'1 68948'5
73°46'7 68°51'1
73°52'3 69°11#3
-73°57'6 69°31'5*
-'74°02'2 69°503
74°02'6 .69°52'0
74°06'1 70°06'6
74°07'5. 70°12'5
74°10'O 70°23'1
74°12'5 70°33'7
74°24'0'- 71°25'7
74°28'6 7-1°45*8
74°44'2 72°53'0
74050-6 73°02'8
75°00'0 73°16'3
75°05' 73°30'64
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andthenceduenorthtotheparallelof78°10'northlatitude;andbounded
onthewestbyalinebeginningat61°00'northlatitudeand6500west
longitudeandextendinginanorth-westerlydirectionalongarhumblineto
thecoastofBaffinIslandatEastBluff(61°55'northlatitudeand66°20'west
longitude),andthenceinanortherlydirectionalongthecoastofBaffin
Island,BylotIsland,DevonIslandandEllesmereIslandandfollowing^the
•meridianof80°westlongitudeinthewatersbetweenthoseislands'to78°10'

northlatitude;andboundedonthenorthbytheparallelof7810northlati­
tude.' .
Paragraph2(a)ofAnnexIIItotheConventionshallbereplacedbythefollowing:
'2.(a)Sub-area1–thatportionoftheConventionArealyingtotheeastofSub-area0andto
'thenorthandeastofarhumblinejoiningapointat60°12'northlatitude
and57°13'westlongitudewithapointat52°15'northlatitudeand42°00'
westlongitude.'