2005/425/EC: Commission Decision of 6 June 2005 on the allocation of one additional day absent from port to Denmark and the United Kingdom in accordance with Annex IVa to Council Regulation (EC) No 27/2005 (notified under document number C(2005) 1657)
Date: 2005-06-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Denmark, United Kingdom, fishery management, fishery resources, fishing regulations, fishing vessel

8.6.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 144/51

COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 June 2005

on the allocation of one additional day absent from port to Denmark and the United Kingdom in
accordance with Annex IVa to Council Regulation (EC) No 27/2005

(notified under document number C(2005) 1657)

(Only the Danish and English texts are authentic)

(2005/425/EC)

Kingdom for fishing vessels carrying on board fishing
gears referred to in point 4(a) of Annex IVa to Regulation
(EC) No 27/2005 of mesh size greater than 120 mm,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

One additional day, in relation to those set out in point 6(a) of
Annex IVa to Regulation (EC) No 27/2005, shall be allocated in
each calendar month for vessels from Denmark and the United
Kingdom carrying on board demersal trawls, seines or similar
towed gears of mesh size greater than 120 mm except beam
trawls.

Article 2

A vessel to which one additional day is allocated pursuant to
Article 1 may not transfer this day to any other vessel unless

(a) the recipient vessel uses at all times a fishing gear of mesh

size greater than 120 mm;

(b) the conditions set out in point 10 of Annex IVa to Regu-

lation (EC) No 27/2005 are fulfilled.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Denmark and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 6 June 2005.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 27/2005 of 22
December 2004 fixing for 2005 the fishing opportunities and
associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of
stocks, applicable in Community waters and, for Community
vessels, in waters where catch limitations are required (1), and in
particular point 6(e) of Annex IVa,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Point 6(a) of Annex IVa to Regulation (EC) No 27/2005
the number of days on which certain
specifies
Community fishing vessels may be absent from port in
the geographical areas defined in paragraph 2 of that
Annex from 1 February to 31 December 2005.

Point 6(e) of that Annex enables the Commission to
allocate an additional day on which a vessel may be
absent from port while carrying on board fishing gears
referred to in point 4(a) of mesh size greater than
from a Member
120 mm, on the basis of a request
the Member State
State and on the condition that
automatic
concerned has developed a
suspensions of
infringe-
ments.

fishing licences in respect of

system of

Denmark and United Kingdom have submitted a request
and provided information on a system of automatic
suspensions of
infringe-
ments for fishing vessels carrying on board demersal
towed gears of mesh size
trawls,
greater than 120 mm except beam trawls.

fishing licences in respect of

seines or

similar

(4)

In the view of the information submitted, one additional
day should be allocated to Denmark and the United

(1) OJ L 12, 14.1.2005, p. 1.