Council Regulation (EC) No 1570/1999 of 12 July 1999 on the allocation of fishing possibilities for certain fish stocks and amending Regulation (EC) No 48/1999 fixing, for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, the total allowable catches for 1999 and certain conditions under which they may be fished
Date: 1999-07-12
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: authorised catch, catch quota, common fisheries policy, fishing area, fishing regulations, sea fish

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1570/1999

of 12 July 1999

on the allocation of fishing possibilities for certain fish stocks and amending Regulation (EC) No
48/1999 fixing, for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, the total allowable catches for
1999 and certain conditions under which they may be fished

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(7)

Regulation (EC) No 48/1999 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

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 (1), and in particular Article 8(4) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Regulation (EC) No 48/1999 is hereby amended as follows:

Regulation (EC) No 48/1999 (2) fixes, for certain fish
stocks and groups of fish stocks, the TACs for 1998 and
certain conditions under which they may be fished;

In order to prevent overexploitation, it is desirable to set
new TACs for 1999 in order to limit the catches of the
stocks of spurdog and northern prawn in the North Sea;
the shares of these TACs available to the Community
should be allocated among Member States;

In order to prevent overfishing, the Community fisheries
for blue whiting in areas Vb (EC zone), VI and VII, and
VIIIabd should be subject to allocation among Member
States so as these fisheries are properly monitored;

1.

in Annex I:

(a) the tables ‘Blue whiting in zone Vb (Community waters),
VI, VII’, ‘Blue whiting in zone VIIIabd’ and ‘Sprat in zone
IIIbcd (Community waters)’ shall be replaced by the
corresponding tables in Annex I to this Regulation;

(b) the table ‘Blue whiting in zone VIIIe’ shall be deleted;

(c) the tables in Annex II to this Regulation relating to

Northern prawn and spurdog shall be inserted;

2.

in Annex III:

(a) the area ‘VIIIabd’ corresponding to blue whiting shall be

replaced by ‘VIIIabde’;

(b) the entries corresponding to blue whiting in area VIIIe

shall be deleted;

(c) the entries in Annex III to this Regulation relating to

Northern prawn and spurdog shall be inserted.

The abovementioned allocations should be made in
accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 8(4)
of Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92;

Article 2

All or a great deal of the allowed catches in 1999 for all
the abovementioned species is likely to have been taken
at the time of adoption of this Regulation; it is therefore
appropriate to exclude these catches from the applica-
tion of Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 of 6 May
1996 introducing additional conditions for year-to-year
management of TACs and quotas (3);

(6) Within the framework of the bilateral consultations on
the reciprocal fishing rights between the Community
and Poland for 1999, the Community share for Baltic
sprat has been modified;

Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply to
landings of:

(a) spurdog in the North Sea (Community waters);

(b) northern prawn in the Northern Sea (Community waters);

(c) blue whiting in ICES division Vb (Community waters), sub-

areas VI, VII, XII and XIV;

(d) blue whiting in ICES Division VIIabde.

Article 3

(1) OJ L 389, 31.12.1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regula-

tion (EC) No 118/98 (OJ L 164, 9.6.1998, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 115, 9.5.1996, p. 3.

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

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

Done at Brussels, 12 July 1999.

For the Council

The President

S. NIINISTÖ

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ANNEX I

Species: Blue whiting

Micromesistius poutassou

Zone: Vb (1), VI, VII, XII and XIV

(1) Community waters
(2) Of which 5 000 tonnes may be fished in ICES divisions VIIIa, b and e.

België/Belgique
Danmark
Deutschland
Ελλάδα
España
France
Ireland
Italia
Luxembourg
Nederland
Österreich
Portugal
Suomi/Finland
Sverige
United Kingdom

CE

TAC

3 100
12 000

20 000 (2)
16 700
24 000

37 700

1 500

35 000

150 000

407 000

Species: Blue whaiting

Micromesistius poutassou

Zone: VIII abde

(1) Any part of this quota may be fished in ICES division Vb (EC zone),

sub-areas VI, VII, XII and XIV

België/Belgique
Danmark
Deutschland
Ελλάδα
España
France
Ireland
Italia
Luxembourg
Nederland
Österreich
Portugal
Suomi/Finland
Sverige
United Kingdom

CE

TAC

10 000 (1)
7 759 (1)

1 500 (1)

7 241 (1)

26 500

26 500

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Species: Sprat

Sprattus sprattus

Zone: III bcd (1)

België/Belgique
Danmark
Deutschland
Ελλάδα
España
France
Ireland
Italia
Luxembourg
Nederland
Österreich
Portugal
Suomi/Finland
Sverige
United Kingdom

CE

TAC

48 064
30 450

(1) Community waters
(2) Of which no more than 8 000 tonnes may be fished in the Estonian
zone, no more than 6 000 tonnes in the Latvian zone, and no more
than 4 000 tonnes in the Lithuanian zone

25 160
105 917

209 590 (2)

468 000

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ANNEX II

Zone: IIa (1), North Sea (1)

(1) Community waters

Zone: IIa (1), North Sea (1)

(1) Community waters

Species: Northern Prawn
Pandalus borealis

België/Belgique
Danmark
Deutschland
Ελλάδα
España
France
Ireland
Italia
Luxembourg
Nederland
Österreich
Portugal
Suomi/Finland
Sverige
United Kingdom

EE

TAC

4 698

54

316
1 948

7 013

7 013

Species: Spurdog

Squalus acanthias

België/Belgique
Danmark
Deutschland
Ελλάδα
España
France
Ireland
Italia
Luxembourg
Nederland
Österreich
Portugal
Suomi/Finland
Sverige
United Kingdom

EC

TAC

150
863
156

276

236

12
7 177

8 870

8 870

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ANNEX III

Stock

Species

Common name

Latin name

area

Type of TAC
A = analytical
P = precautionary

Articles 3 and 4
of Regulation (EC)
No 847/96
applicable
(1/0 = yes/no)

Deductions of
Article 5(2)
of Regulation (EC)
No 847/96
applicable
(1/0 = yes/no)

Northern prawn

Pandalus borealis

II a (1), North Sea (1)

Spurdog

Squalus acanthias

II a (1), North Sea (1)

P

P

1

1

0

0