Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Council Regulation (EC) No 395/97 allocating, for 1997, Community catch quotas in Greenland waters
Date: 1997-10-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Greenland, authorised catch, catch quota, fishery management, fishing area

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

Brussels, 20.10.1997 
COM(97) 493  final 

Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) 

amending Council Regulation (EC) No. 395/97 allocating, for 1997, 
Community catch quotas in Greenland waters 

(presented  by the Commission) 

EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 

Pursuant to Article  1 paragraph 2 of the Third  Protocol(,), the Community  is entitled  to "70% of the 
Greenland  share of the capelin TAC minus  10,000 tonnes to the Faroe Islands". This provision  has to 
be  seen  against  the  background  that  the  capelin  stock  in  the  waters  off  Eastern  Greenland  is 
managed jointly  by Greenland, Iceland and Norway. In annual consultations, these parties  normally 
establish, on the basis of an initial survey, a "total preliminary quota" (of which the Greenland  share 
is  16.5 %) and, after  another survey later in the year, a TAC (of which the Greenland  share is  11  %). 
For  1996/97, the "total preliminary quota" was  1,100,000 tonnes (of which the Greenland  share was 
181,500 tonnes) and the final  TAC was  1,650,000 tonnes (of which the Greenland  share was equally 
181,500 tonnes). 

Council Regulation (EC) No. 395/97 
established the corresponding  Community  catch quota on the 
basis of these calculations at  127,050 tonnes. The underlying TAC has been revised  in the meantime 
and  set  at  1,265,000 tonnes  for  1997/98. The ensuing Greenland  share  is  139,150 tonnes  and,  as a 
consequence, the quota available to the Community decreases to 97,405 tonnes. 

Following  this decrease, Greenland  has consented  to grant  the Community  an additional  quantity  of 
13,745 tonnes free of charge. Consequently, the Community catch quota now totals  111,150 tonnes. 

The  objective  of  this  proposal  is  to  implement  the  measures  resulting  from  the  variation  of  the 
underlying TAC. 

(1) 
(2) 

OJNo. L35I, 31.12.1994, p. I 
OJNo. L 66, 06.03.1997, p. 71 

A 

Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 

/97 

of.... 1997 

amending Council Regulation (EC) No. 395/97 allocating, for  1997, 
Community catch quotas in Greenland waters 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, 

Having  regard  to  Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No.  3760/92  of  20  December  1992  establishing  a 
Community  system  for  fisheries  and  aquaculture  \  as  amended  by  the  Act  of  Accession  of  Austria, 
Finland and Sweden, and in particular Article 8(4) thereof, 

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 

Whereas  Council  Regulation  (EC) No. 395/97 
capelin in Greenland waters on the basis of a provisional TAC; 

established,  for  1997, the  Community  catch  quota  for 

Whereas a revision of the relevant TAC in the meantime has resulted  in a decrease in the share  available 
to the Community; 

( 2) 

Whereas Greenland has consented to grant the Community an additional  quantity; 

Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No. 395/97 has to be amended accordingly; 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION 

Article 1 

In the Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No. 395/97, the part dealing with capelin shall be amended  as 
given in the Annex to this Regulation. 

Article 2 

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. 

Done at Brussels,.... 1997. 

(i) 

(2) 

OJNo. L 389, 31.12.1992,p. 1. 
OJNo.  L 66, 06.03.1997, p. 71 

For the Council 
The President 

ANNEX 

Allocation of Community catch quotas in Greenland waters for 1997 

Species 

Geographical 
area 

Community 
catch quotas 
(in tonnes) 

Quotas allocated to Member States 

Quantities 
allocated 
to Norway 

Quantities 
allocated to 
Iceland 

Faroese 
quotas under 
EC/ 
Greenland 

Capelin 

ICES XIV/V 

1 1 1 1 5 0( 6 )( 10) 

Community 

46 150 

25 000 

30 000 

10 000 

(6) 

(I(,) 

70% of the Greenland share of tlie TAC for capelin minus  10 000 tonnes to tlie Faroe Islands. Upon any further  revision of the relevant 
TAC in the course of  1997, the Community quota shall be revised accordingly. 

Includes a transfer  of  13 745 tonnes from  Greenland. 

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