Council Regulation (EC) No 1298/2000 of 8 June 2000 amending for the fifth time Regulation (EC) No 850/98 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms
Date: 2000-06-08
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: conservation of fish stocks, fishery resources, fishing area, fishing net, fishing rights

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1298/2000

of 8 June 2000

amending for the fifth time Regulation (EC) No 850/98 for the conservation of fishery resources
through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 850/98 should therefore be
amended,

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

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),

Article 1

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (3),

Regulation (EC) No 850/98 is hereby amended as follows:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

render

Geographical and seasonal particularities
it
appropriate that detailed rules for separator trawls or
nets with a sorting grid to be used in shrimp fisheries
should be established by Member States for fishing
vessels flying their flag and registered in the Community.
Article 25 of Regulation (EC) No 850/98 (4) should
therefore be amended.

Recent scientific advice indicates that quantities of sand
eels within an area off the northeast coast of England
and the east coast of Scotland are currently insufficient
to support both fisheries upon them and the require-
ments of various species for which sand eels are a major
component of their diet and that a closure of fisheries
for sandeels in this area is therefore required.

Article 46 of Regulation (EC) No 850/98 should be
redrafted to provide greater clarity with regard to its
applicability.

Minimum sizes for a number of crustaceans and bivalve
molluscs should be revised or introduced.

1. Article 25(2) shall be replaced by:

‘2.
At the latest on 1 July 2002, a separator trawl or a
trawl with a sorting grid shall be used to catch common
shrimps and Aesop shrimps in conformity with detailed
rules which Member States shall establish in accordance
with Article 46. Such rules may be applicable only to nets
towed by fishing vessels.’

2. The following Article shall be inserted after Article 29:

‘Article 29a

Restrictions on fishing for sand eels

1.
During the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, it shall be
prohibited to land or retain on board sand eels caught
within the geographical area bounded by the east coast of
England and Scotland, and a line sequentially joining the
following coordinates:

— the east coast of England at latitude 55° 30(cid:1)N,

— latitude 55° 30(cid:1)N,

longitude 1° 00(cid:1)W,

— latitude 58° 00(cid:1)N,

longitude 1° 00(cid:1)W,

— latitude 58° 00(cid:1)N,

longitude 2° 00(cid:1)W,

— the east coast of Scotland at longitude 2° 00(cid:1)W.

(1) OJ C 89 E, 28.3.2000.
(2) Opinion delivered on 19 May 2000 (not yet published in the Offi-

cial Journal).

(3) OJ C 75, 15.3.2000, p. 34.
(4) OJ L 125, 27.4.1998, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regula-

tion (EC) No 2723/1999 (OJ L 328, 22.12.1999, p. 9).

2.
Before 1 March 2001 and again before 1 March 2002,
the Commission will report to the Council on the effects of
the provision contained in paragraph 1. On the basis of the
said reports,
the Commission may propose appropriate
amendments to the conditions indicated in paragraph 1.’

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3. Article 46(1) shall be replaced by the following:

4. Annex XII shall be amended as follows:

‘1. Member States may take measures for the conserva-
tion and management of stocks:

(a) in the case of strictly local stocks which are of interest

solely to the Member State concerned; or

(b) in the form of conditions or detailed arrangements
designed to limit catches by technical measures:
(i) supplementing those laid down in the Community

legislation on fisheries; or

(ii) going beyond the minimum requirements laid down

in the said legislation;

provided that such measures apply solely to fishing vessels
flying the flag of the Member State concerned and registered
in the Community or, in the case of fishing activities which
are not conducted by a fishing vessel, to persons established
in the Member State concerned.’

(a) ‘Carpetshell

(Venerupis

replaced by ‘Carpetshell

pullastra) 40 mm’
shall be
(Venerupis pullastra) 38 mm’,

(b) ‘Hard clam (Callista chione) 5 cm’ shall be replaced by

‘Hard clam (Callista chione) 6 cm’,

(c) ‘Razor clam (Ensis spp., Pharus legumen) 10 cm’ shall be

replaced by ‘Razor clam (Ensis spp) 10 cm’,

(d) ‘Bean solen (Pharus legumen) 65 mm’ shall be inserted

before ‘Whelk (Buccinum undatum)’,

(e) ‘Deepwater rose shrimp (Parapenaeus longirostirs) 22 mm
(carapace length)’ shall be added after ‘Crawfish (Pali-
nurus spp.)’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day
following that of 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 Luxembourg, 8 June 2000.

For the Council

The President

G. OLIVEIRA MARTINS