Amended proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on the common organization of the market in fishery and aquaculture products
Date: 1992-12-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aquaculture, common organisation of markets, fishery product, market intervention, marketing standard, trade policy

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) 

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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  : 

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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) 

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on the common  organization  of the market  in  fishery 

and  aquaculture  products 

The Commission's  proposal  is hereby amended  as follows: 

1. 

2. 

In  the  title  of  the  proposal,  insert  the  words  "and  aquaculture" 
between  "fishery" and "products". 

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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