Commission Regulation (EC) No 2157/2005 of  23 December 2005  setting out the licence fees applicable in 2006 to Community vessels fishing in Greenland waters
Date: 2005-12-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Greenland, fishing area, fishing licence, fishing regulations

24.12.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 342/59

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2157/2005

of 23 December 2005

setting out the licence fees applicable in 2006 to Community vessels fishing in Greenland waters

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1245/2004 of 28
June 2004 on the conclusion of the Protocol modifying the
fourth Protocol laying down the conditions relating to fishing
provided for
in the Agreement on fisheries between the
European Economic Community, on the one hand, and the
local Government of
Government of Denmark and the
Greenland, on the other (1), and in particular
the second
paragraph of Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(3)

(4)

(5)

Part B.4 of the Administrative Agreement specifies that
license fees for 2006 are to be fixed by an annex to that
Arrangement and based on 3 % of the price per tonne
per species.

It is appropriate to set out in this Regulation licence fees
for 2006, which were agreed by the Community and
Greenland on 12 December 2005 in an annex to the
Administrative Arrangement.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Committee on
fisheries and aquaculture,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1245/2004 provides
that owners of Community vessels who receive a
licence for a Community vessel authorised to fish in
waters in the exclusive economic zone of Greenland
are to pay a licence fee in accordance with Article
11(5) of the fourth Protocol.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2140/2004 of 15
December 2004 laying down detailed rules for the appli-
cation of Regulation No 1245/2004 as regards appli-
cations for fisheries licences in waters in the exclusive
economic zone of Greenland (2) implements an Admin-
istrative Arrangement on fisheries licences as set out in
Article 11(5) of the fourth Protocol.

The licence fees for 2006 for Community vessels authorised to
fish in waters in the exclusive economic zone of Greenland shall
be as set out in the Annex to the Administrative Agreement
referred to in Regulation (EC) No 2140/2004.

The text of
attached to this Regulation.

the Annex to the Administrative Agreement

is

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 23 December 2005.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 237, 8.7.2004, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 369, 16.12.2004, p. 49.

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24.12.2005

The licence fees for 2006 are as follows:

ANNEX

Species

EUR per tonne

Redfish

Greenland Halibut

Shrimp

Atlantic Halibut

Capelin

Roundnose Grenadier

Snowcrab

42

77

64

85

3

19

122