Commission Regulation (EC) No 1902/2000 of 7 September 2000 adapting certain fish quotas for 2000 pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 introducing additional conditions for year-to-year management of TACs and quotas
Date: 2000-09-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU waters, authorised catch, catch quota, fishery management, fishing regulations

L 228/50

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

8.9.2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1902/2000

of 7 September 2000

adapting certain fish quotas for 2000 pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 introducing
additional conditions for year-to-year management of TACs and quotas

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Council Regulation (EC) No 2742/1999 (21), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1696/2000 (22), fixes
fish quotas for certain stocks in 2000.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12
October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the
common fisheries policy (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 2846/98 (2), and in particular Article 23 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 of 6 May
1996 introducing additional
year-to-year
management of TACs and quotas (3), and in particular Article
4(2) thereof,

conditions

for

Whereas:

(1)

as

(EC) No 48/1999 (4),

Council Regulations
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2598/1999 (5), (EC) No
49/1999 (6), (EC) No 51/1999 (7), as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1619/1999 (8), (EC) No
53/1999 (9), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1619/1999, (EC) No 54/1999 (10), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 2472/1999 (11),
(EC) No 55/
1999 (12), (EC) No 57/1999 (13), (EC) No 59/1999 (14),
(EC) No 61/1999 (15), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 2473/1999 (16), (EC) No 63/1999 (17), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1619/1999, (EC) No
65/1999 (18), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
(EC) No 66/1999 (19) and (EC) No 67/
1619/1999,
1999 (20) stipulate which stocks may be subject to the
measures foreseen by Regulation (EC) No 847/96.

(1) OJ L 261, 20.10.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 358, 31.12.1998, p. 5.
(3) OJ L 115, 9.5.1996, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 316, 10.12.1999, p. 15.
(6) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 54.
(7) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 67.
(8) OJ L 192, 24.7.1999, p. 14.
(9) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 79.
(10) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 81.
(11) OJ L 302, 25.11.1999, p. 1.
(12) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 84.
(13) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 93.
(14) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 102.
(15) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 111.
(16) OJ L 302, 25.11.1999, p. 3.
(17) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 120.
(18) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 128.
(19) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 130.
(20) OJ L 13, 18.1.1999, p. 145.

(3) Within the terms of Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No
847/96, certain Member States have asked to withhold a
fraction of their quotas to be transferred to the following
year. Within the limits indicated in that Article, the
Commission shall add to the quota for 2000 the quant-
ities withheld.

(4)

(5)

(6)

According to the information communicated to the
Commission, certain Member States have fished in
excess of permitted landings for some stocks in 1999. In
accordance with Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 847/
96, deductions from national quotas for 2000 shall be
made at a level equivalent to the quantity fished in
excess, without prejudice to the application of Article
5(2).

In conformity with Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No
847/96, weighted deductions from national quotas for
2000 shall be made in the case of overfishing of
permitted landings in 1998 for those stocks identified as
such in Article 5 of and Annex III to Regulation (EC) No
48/1999.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The quotas fixed in Regulation (EC) No 2742/1999 are
increased or reduced as shown in the Annex.

Article 2

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

(21) OJ L 341, 31.12.1999, p. 1.
(22) OJ L 195, 1.8.2000, p. 1.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 7 September 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

Species

Zone

Member State

Withheld
quantities (1)

Catch in excess of
permitted landings
in 1999

Deductions (2)

ANNEX

Herring

Herring

Herring

Herring

Cod

Megrim

Megrim

Megrim

Megrim

Megrim

Megrim

Megrim

Megrim

Anglerfish

Anglerfish

Anglerfish

Anglerfish

Anglerfish

IV c, VII d

IV c, VII d

IV c, VII d

VII h g j k

III a Kattegat

VII

VII

VII

VII

VII

VIII a b d e

VIII a b d e

VIII c, IX

VII

VII

VII

VII

VII

DK

FR

UK

FR

SW

BE

ES

FR

IRL

UK

ES

FR

ES

BE

ES

FR

NL

UK

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

130

n.a.

61

672

815

371

321

144

98

554

246

98

791

32

480

231

218

37

n.a.

23

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

231

218

37

n.a.

23

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

Weighted
deductions %,
quantity (3)

40 %, 92

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

Additional
deductions (4)

2000 quota

Revised value
of 2000 quota

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

339

8 472

1 693

1 300

2 590

480

5 380

6 520

2 970

2 570

1 150

930

4 620

2 130

840

16

8 254

1 656

1 430

2 567

541

6 052

7 335

3 341

2 891

1 294

1 028

5 174

2 376

938

13 630

14 421

280

312

4 140

4 620

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Zone

Member State

Withheld
quantities (1)

Catch in excess of
permitted landings
in 1999

Deductions (2)

Weighted
deductions %,
quantity (3)

Additional
deductions (4)

2000 quota

Revised value
of 2000 quota

Anglerfish

Anglerfish

Whiting

VIII a b d e

VIII a b d e

VII b and k

Blue whiting

IIa (*), North Sea (*)

Blue whiting

V b, VI, VII

Blue whiting

V b, VI, VII

Blue whiting

Blue whiting

VIII a b d e

VIII a b d e

Blue whiting

VIII c, IX, X, CECAF 34.1.1

European plaice

European plaice

European plaice

European plaice

Saithe

Mackerel

Common sole

Common sole

Common sole

Horse mackerel

VII a

VII a

VII a

VII a

I, II (Norwegian waters)

V b (Faroese waters)

VIII a b

VIII a b

VIII a b

V b (*), VI, VII, VIII a b d e, XII,
XIV

ES

DR

FR

NL

ES

FR

ES

FR

ES

BE

IRL

NL

UK

FR

DK

BE

ES

FR

ES

116

323

n.a.

15

2 000

1 670

1 000

775

4 400

9

136

3

88

n.a.

n.a.

7

1

495

1 500

n.a.

n.a.

103

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

58

29

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

103

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

58

29

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

1 000

5 570

1 116

5 893

13 500

13 397

145

160

21 730

23 730

18 150

19 820

10 000

11 000

7 759

8 534

44 000

48 400

85

94

1 365

1 501

30

885

386

33

973

328

3 890

3 861

70

15

77

16

5 315

5 810

23 080

24 580

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Withheld
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Catch in excess of
permitted landings
in 1999

Deductions (2)

Weighted
deductions %,
quantity (3)

Additional
deductions (4)

2000 quota

Revised value
of 2000 quota

Horse mackerel

V b (*), VI, VII, VIII a b d e, XII,
XIV

UK

1 750

Horse mackerel

VIII c, IX

Swordfish

Swordfish

Atlantic Ocean, north of 5° N

Atlantic Ocean, north of 5° N

ES

ES

ES

3 927

441

584

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

22 850

24 600

36 580

40 507

4 198

5 848

4 639

6 432

n.a. Not applicable.
(*) Community waters.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4) Due to relapse,

In accordance with Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96.
In accordance with Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96.
In accordance with Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96.

in accordance with Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96.

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