Council Regulation (EC) No 2057/2002 of 11 November 2002 on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the extension of the Protocol setting out the fishing rights and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Government of the Republic of Angola on fishing off Angola for the period from 3 May to 2 August 2002
Date: 2002-11-11
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Angola, catch quota, financial compensation of an agreement, fishing agreement, fishing regulations

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2057/2002

of 11 November 2002

on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the extension of the
Protocol setting out the fishing rights and the financial contribution provided for by the Agree-
ment between the European Economic Community and the Government of the Republic of
Angola on fishing off Angola for the period from 3 May to 2 August 2002

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu-
nity, and in particular Article 37, in conjunction with Article
300(2) and the first subparagraph of Article 300(3) thereof,

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

fishing rights and the financial contribution provided for in the
Agreement between the European Economic Community and
the Government of the Republic of Angola on fishing off
Angola for the period from 3 May to 2 August 2002 is hereby
approved on behalf of the Community.

The text of the Agreement is attached to this Regulation (4).

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

Article 2

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The European Community and the Republic of Angola
have entered into negotiations to determine any amend-
ments or additions to be made to the Agreement
between the European Economic Community and the
Government of the Republic of Angola on fishing off
Angola (3) at the end of the period of application of the
Protocol annexed thereto.

During the negotiations,
the two Parties decided to
extend the current Protocol for three months by means
of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters
initialled on 26 April 2002, pending the conclusion of
the negotiations on the amendments to be made to the
Protocol.

It is in the Community's interest to approve that exten-
sion.

The allocation of the fishing rights among the Member
States under the expired Protocol should be confirmed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Agreement
concerning the extension of

in the form of an Exchange of Letters
the

the Protocol setting out

(1) Proposal of 10 July 2002 (not yet published in the Official Journal).
(2) Opinion delivered on 22 October 2002 (not yet published in the

Official Journal).

(3) OJ L 341, 3.12.1987, p. 2.

The fishing rights established pro rata temporis by Article 1
shall be allocated among the Member States as follows:

— shrimp vessels:

— Spain:

6 550 GRT per month, averaged over
the year, 22 vessels

— demersal fishing vessels:

— Spain:

— Portugal:

— Italy:

— Greece:

1 650 GRT per month, averaged over
the year

1 000 GRT per month, averaged over
the year

650 GRT per month, averaged over the
year

450 GRT per month, averaged over the
year

— freezer tuna seiners:

— France:

— Spain:

7 vessels

11 vessels

— surface longliners:

— Portugal:

5 vessels

— Spain:

20 vessels

— pelagic fishing vessels:

— Ireland:

2 vessels.

If licence applications from these Member States do not cover
all the fishing rights fixed by the Protocol, the Commission
may consider licence applications from any other Member
State.

Article 3

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

(4) See page 31 of this Official Journal.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 November 2002.

For the Council

The President

B. MIKKELSEN