Council Regulation (EC) No 1660/98 of 20 July 1998 approving the Protocol establishing the fishing possibilities and the financial compensation provided for in the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Government of the Revolutionary People's Republic of Guinea on fishing off the Guinean coast for the period 1 January 1998 to 31 December 1999
Date: 1998-07-20
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Guinea, agreement (EU), deep-sea fishing, financial compensation of an agreement, fishing agreement, protocol to an agreement

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1660/98

of 20 July 1998

approving the Protocol establishing the fishing possibilities and the financial
compensation provided for in the Agreement between the European Economic
Community and the Government of the Revolutionary People’s Republic of
Guinea on fishing off the Guinean coast for the period 1 January 1998 to 31
December 1999

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 43, in conjunction
with the first sentence of Article 228(2) and the first
subparagraph of Article 228(3) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia-
ment (1),

Whereas, pursuant to the Agreement between the Euro-
pean Economic Community and the Government of the
Revolutionary People’s Republic of Guinea on fishing off
the Guinean coast (2), the two Parties have conducted
negotiations to determine any amendments and additions
to be made to the Agreement at the end of the period of
application of the Protocol annexed thereto;

Whereas, as a result of those negotiations, a new Protocol
establishing the fishing possibilities and the financial
compensation provided for in the abovementioned Agree-
ment for the period 1 January 1998 to 31 December 1999
was initialled on 11 December 1997;

Whereas it is in the Community’s interest to approve the
new Protocol;

Whereas the fishing possibilities should be apportioned
among the Member States on the basis of the traditional
allocation of
the fisheries
fishing possibilities under
Agreement,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Protocol establishing the fishing possibilities and the
financial compensation provided for in the Agreement
between the European Economic Community and the
Government of the Revolutionary People’s Republic of
Guinea on fishing off the Guinean coast for the period 1

(1) OJ C 210, 6. 7. 1998.
(2) OJ L 111, 27. 4. 1983, p. 1.

January 1998 to 31 December 1999 is hereby approved
on behalf of the Community.

The text of the Protocol is attached to this Regulation (3).

Article 2

The fishing possibilities laid down in the Protocol shall
be allocated among the Member States, according to gross
registered tonnage and number of vessels, as follows:

(a) cephalopods/fin-fish:

Spain:

Italy:

Greece:

(b) shrimps:

Spain:

Portugal:

Greece:

(c) tuna seiners:

France:

Spain:

(d) pole-and-line tuna vessels:

France:

Spain:

(e) surface longliners:

France:

Spain:

Portugal:

1 350 GRT

1 200 GRT

1 450 GRT

700 GRT

200 GRT

100 GRT

19 vessels

14 vessels

8 vessels

5 vessels

3 vessels

23 vessels

2 vessels.

If licence applications from those Member States do not
exhaust
the fishing possibilities established in the
Protocol, the Commission may consider licence applica-
tions from any other Member States.

(3) For the text of the Protocol, see OJ 196, 14. 7. 1998, p. 28.

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Article 3

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the persons empowered to
sign the Protocol in order to bind the Community.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities.

Article 4

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 20 July 1998.

For the Council

The President

W. MOLTERER