2006/2/EC: Council Decision of  21 December 2005  amending Decision 2004/465/EC on a Community financial contribution towards Member States fisheries control programmes
Date: 2005-12-21
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU financing, common fisheries policy, fishing controls

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COUNCIL

COUNCIL DECISION

of 21 December 2005

amending Decision 2004/465/EC on a Community financial contribution towards Member States
fisheries control programmes

(2006/2/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament (1),

(5)

(6)

In order

The new financial perspective will cover the period 2007
to avoid an interruption of
to 2013.
Community financial support,
it is therefore necessary
that the financial assistance available to Member States
under Decision 2004/465/EC is continued during 2006.

It is appropriate to include in Decision 2004/465/EC
studies on fisheries control as well as arrangements
designed to facilitate the implementation of new tech-
nologies on control.

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) sets out general rules
and responsible
on the
conservation, management
living
exploitation, and processing and marketing of
aquatic resources.

Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 of 20 December
2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of
fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy (2)
underlined the need to enhance cooperation and coordi-
nation among Member States and with the Commission
in order to strengthen control and discourage behaviour
contrary to CFP rules.

The period covered by Decision 2004/465/EC (3) will
expire on 31 December 2005.

Due to domestic budgetary and administrative difficulties,
Member States which acceded to the Community on 1
May 2004 have obtained very limited Community
financial assistance under the current financial scheme
foreseen under Decision 2004/465/EC.

(7)

Decision 2004/465/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2004/465/EC is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 3(2) shall be replaced by the following:

‘2.
All Member States shall submit their annual fisheries
control programme by 1 June 2004 for 2004 and by 31
January for 2005 and by 31 January 2006 for 2006.’

2. The following points shall be added to Article 4(1):

(1) Not yet published in the Official Journal.
(2) OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 59.
(3) OJ L 157, 30.4.2004, p. 114.

‘(i) Administrative arrangements with the Joint Research
implementing new technologies on

Centre aimed at
control;

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(j) Studies on control-related areas carried out at

initiative of the Commission.’

the

— point (v) shall be replaced by the following:

3. The first sentence of Article 5(1) shall be replaced by the

following:

‘The financial reference amount for the implementation of
the actions for which financial assistance is provided for the
period 2004 to 2006 shall be EUR 105 million’.

‘(v)

the impact of the financial contribution on fisheries
control programmes over the whole period from
2001 to 2006.’

7. In Article 17, ‘30 June 2007’ shall be replaced by ‘30 June

2008’.

Article 2

4. The following point shall be added to Article 6(2):

This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2006.

‘(d)

for the actions referred to in Article 4(1)(i) and (j), the
rate may be 100 % of the eligible expenditure.’

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

5. In Article 12(2),

‘31 December 2010’.

‘31 December 2008’ shall be replaced by

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2005.

6. In Article 16(b):

— ‘31 December 2006’ shall be replaced by ‘31 December

2007’,

For the Council
The President

B. BRADSHAW