Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stock of cod in the Irish Sea (ICES Division VIIa)
Date: 2000-04-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Irish Sea, conservation of fish stocks, fishing regulations, protection of animal life, sea fish

C 248 E/120

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

29.8.2000

Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of
the stock of cod in the Irish Sea (ICES Division VIIa)

(2000/C 248 E/09)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(2000) 190 final (cid:151) 2000/0071(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 5 April 2000)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

1. any cod-end or extension piece made entirely or partly of

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community and in particular Article 37 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Whereas:

(1) The stock of mature cod in the Irish Sea is currently
depleted and urgent and temporary technical measures
for
fishing in the Irish Sea have been laid down in
Commission Regulation (EC) No 304/2000 of 9 February
2000 establishing measures for the recovery of the stock of
cod in the Irish Sea (ICES Division VIIa) (1).

(2) Greater protection of

juvenile cod in the Irish Sea is
required so that more juveniles survive to become adults.

(3) Additional

intended to ensure the
survival of juvenile cod are required within the Irish Sea.

technical measures

(4) Also, conditions defined in footnote 6 of Annex I of Regu-
lation (EC) No 850/98 for the conservation of
fishery
resources through technical measures for the protection
of juveniles of marine organisms (2) as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 2723/1999 (3) currently allow, during
2000, relaxed percentage by-catch conditions to prevail for
various fishing gears both within and in waters adjacent to
the Irish Sea (ICES Division VIIa). The application of these
conditions during 2000 is not desirable. The aforemen-
tioned footnote therefore requires to be made inapplicable
in the Irish Sea,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

This Regulation lays down technical measures additional to
those defined in Regulation (EC) No 850/98 which shall
apply exclusively to the Irish Sea (ICES Division VIIa as
defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3880/91 of 17
December 1991 on the submission of national catch statistics
by Member States fishing in the Northeast Atlantic (4)).

multiple-twine netting materials;

2. any cod-end or extension piece of which the thickness of

the twine exceeds 6 mm,

3. any cod-end of mesh size range 70 to 89 mm having more
than 120 meshes in any circumference of said cod-end
excluding the joinings and selvedges;

4. any towed net which includes any individual quadrilateral
the mesh are not of

mesh of which the bars of
approximately equal length;

5. any demersal towed net of mesh size range 70 to 99 mm
unless the upper half of such a net includes a panel of
netting material attached directly to the headline of
the
net, extending towards the posterior of the net for at least
15 meshes and constructed of diamond-meshed netting
material of which no individual mesh is of mesh size less
than 140 mm. This provision shall not apply to beam
trawls;

6. any demersal towed net of mesh size range 80 to 99 mm
unless a square-meshed panel of mesh size of least 80 mm
is included in such a net. This provision shall not apply to
beam trawls;

7. any demersal towed net to which a cod-end of mesh size
less than 100 mm is attached by any means other than
being sewn into the anterior part of the net.

Article 3

Footnote 6 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 850/98 shall not
apply to ICES Division VIIa.

Article 4

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

Article 2

The conditions of Article 2 shall apply from 1 January 2001.

When fishing in the Irish Sea, it shall be prohibited to use or
carry on board:

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

(1) OJ L 35, 10.2.2000, p. 10.
(2) OJ L 125, 27.4.1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 328, 22.12.1999, p. 9
(4) OJ L 365, 31.12.1991, p. 1.