Amended proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) introducing a scheme to compensate for the additional costs incurred in the marketing of certain fishery products from the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands and the French overseas department of Guiana as a result of those regions' remoteness
Date: 1998-03-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, compensatory financing, fishery product, island region, peripheral region

C  125/18

EN

Official  Journal  of  the  European  Communities

23.4.98

Amended  proposal  for  a  Council  Regulation  (EC)  introducing  a  scheme  to  compensate  for  the
additional  costs  incurred  in  the  marketing  of  certain  fishery  products  from  the  Azores,  Madeira,
the  Canary  Islands  and  the  French  overseas  department  of  Guiana  as  a  result  of  those  regions’
remoteness (˛)

(98/C  125/12)

COM(1998)  141  final  -  97/0200(CNS)

(Submitted  by  the  Commission  pursuant  to  Article  189a(2)  of  the  EC  Treaty  on  23  March  1998)

The  proposal  is  amended  as  follows:

Article  1

Title

Proposal  for  a  Council  Regulation  introducing  a  scheme
to  compensate  for  the  additional  costs  incurred  in  the
marketing  of  certain  fishery  products  from  the  Azores,
Madeira,  the  Canary  Islands  and  the  French  overseas
departments  of  Guiana  and  R~union  as  a  result  of  those
regions’  remoteness.

A  scheme  is  hereby  introduced  to  compensate  for  the
additional  costs  of  marketing  certain  fishery  products
from  the  Azores,  Madeira,  the  Canary  Islands  and  the
French  departments  of  Guiana  and  R~union.

Article  2(3)(a)

Recital  5

(a)(cid:217)ECU  152  per  tonne  of  tuna  for  marketing  fresh  for

up  to  11(cid:216)320  tonnes  a  year;

Whereas  the  regions  concerned  are  facing  specific  devel(cid:220)
opment  problems  and 
in  particular  additional  costs
incurred  in  the  marketing  of  certain  products  as  a  result
of  their  remoteness;  whereas,  with  a  view  to  maintaining
the  competitiveness  of  certain  fishery  products  against
similar  products  from  other  Community  regions,  the
Community  introduced  measures  in  1992  and  1993  to
compensate  for  such  additional  costs  in  the  fisheries
sector;  whereas  those  measures  were  followed  up  in  1994
and  1995(cid:220)1997  by  the  adoption  of  Council  Regulations
(EC)  No  1503/94  and  (EC)  No  2337/95;  whereas  the
arrangements  to  compensate  for  the  additional  costs
in  processing  and  marketing  certain  fishery
incurred 
products  (tuna  and  demersal  species  in  the  Azores;  tuna,
black  scabbardfish  and  mackerel 
tuna,
sardines,  mackerel,  aquaculture  products,  cephalopods,
sole  and  sea  bream  in  the  Canary  Islands;  shrimp  in
in  R~union)  should  be
Guiana;  (tuna  and  swordfish 
continued  from  1998  and  provision  must  accordingly  be
made  for  the  measures  to  be  extended.

in  Madeira; 

Recital  7a  (new)

Whereas  it  is  essential  to  respect  the  Community  rules  on
the  conservation  and  management  of  stocks  in  those
regions,  and  in  particular,  in  the  case  of  the  French
department  of  Guiana,  the  rule  prohibiting  fishing  for
shrimp  at  a  depth  of  less  than  30  metres,  and  to  provide
for  the  adjustment,  where  necessary,  of  the  amounts  set
for  the  various  species  in  the  light  of  their  marketing
conditions  and  characteristics.

Article  2(3)(b)

(b) ECU  56  per  tonne  of  frozen  tuna  for  up  to  1(cid:216)000

tonnes  a  year;

Article  2(3)(c)

(a)(cid:217)ECU  56  per  tonne  of  sardines  and  mackerel  for

freezing  for  up  to  4(cid:216)000  tonnes  a  year;

Article  2(3)(d)

(d) ECU  105  per  tonne  of  sardines  and  mackerel  for

processing  for  up  to  12(cid:216)100  tonnes  a  year;

Article  2(4a)  (new)

In  the  case  of  R~union,  the  scheme  provided  for  in
Article  1  shall  entail  payment  of  ECU  1(cid:216)000  per  tonne  of
tuna  and  swordfish  for  up  to  1(cid:216)000  tonnes  a  year.

Article  2(4b)  (new)

The  Commission  may,  in  accordance  with  the  procedure
laid  down  in  Article  4,  adjust  the  amounts  set  for  the
various  species  in  the  light  of  their  marketing  conditions
and  characteristics.

(˛)(cid:217)OJ  C  292,  26.9.1997.