Proposal for a Council Decision amending Council Decision 97/413/EC concerning the objectives and detailed rules for restructuring the Community fisheries sector for the period from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2001 with a view to achieving a balance on a sustainable basis between resources and their exploitation
Date: 2001-06-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Community fisheries, aquaculture, common fisheries policy, conservation of resources

25.9.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 270 E/79

Proposal for a Council Decision amending Council Decision 97/413/EC concerning the objectives
and detailed rules for restructuring the Community fisheries sector for the period from 1 January
1997 to 31 December 2001 with a view to achieving a balance on a sustainable basis between
resources and their exploitation

(2001/C 270 E/07)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(2001) 322 final (cid:151) 2001/0128(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 14 June 2001)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(b) In paragraph 2, (cid:145)30 %(cid:146) is replaced by (cid:145)36 %(cid:146) and (cid:145)20 %(cid:146) is

replaced by (cid:145)24 %(cid:146).

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), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1181/98 (2) and in particular Article 11 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

(c)

In paragraphs 3 and 4,
replaced by (cid:145)the period 1997 to 2002(cid:146).

(cid:145)the period 1997 to 2001(cid:146)

is

2. Article 3 is amended as follows:

(a)

(cid:145)31 December 2001(cid:146) is replaced by (cid:145)31 December 2002(cid:146).

(b) The words (cid:145)except in the framework of programmes for
improving safety of navigation at sea(cid:146) are deleted.

Whereas:

3. In Article 4 paragraph 2 is deleted.

4. In Article 7 (cid:145)31 December 2001(cid:146) is replaced by (cid:145)31 December

2002(cid:146).

5. Article 9 is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)Article 9

The implementation of
the objectives and detailed rules
of this Decision shall be carried out by the Commission
in
(EC)
accordance with Article 4 of Regulation
No 2792/1999 (*). By 31 December 2001 the Commission
shall modify, in accordance with the present Decision, the
Multiannual Guidance Programmes for the fishing fleets of
shall be
individual Member States. The programmes
prolonged to cover the period from 1 January 1997 to
31 December 2002 and shall be progressively achieved,
by reference to annual intermediate objectives.

___________
(*) OJ L 337, 30.12.1999, p. 10.(cid:146)

Article 2

This Decision shall apply as of 1 January 2002.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

In order

(1) The Common Fisheries Policy will be reviewed before
1 January 2003.
to ensure the coherence
between the policy for restructuring the fisheries sector
and the rest of
is
therefore necessary to prolong the period of application
of Council Decision 97/413/EC until 31 December 2002.

the Common Fisheries Policy it

(2) In order to make further progress towards achieving a
balance between fisheries resources and their exploitation
the fishing effort of the Community fleet should continue
to be reduced during the prolongation year.

(3) Measures to improve safety should not lead to an increase
in fishing effort and such measures should therefore be
applied within the existing capacity objectives for the fleet.

(4) Decision

97/413/EC should

therefore

be

amended

accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Council Decision 97/413/EC is amended as follows:

1. Article 2 is amended as follows:

(a)

In paragraph 1 (cid:145)31 December 2001(cid:146)
(cid:145)31 December 2002(cid:146).

is replaced by

(1) OJ L 389, 31.12.1992, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 164, 9.6.1998, p. 1.