Council Regulation (EC) No 115/2006 of  23 January 2006  on the conclusion of the Protocol setting out, for the period from  18 January 2005  to  17 January 2011 , the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Seychelles on fishing off Seychelles
Date: 2006-01-23
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Seychelles, agreement (EU), disclosure of information, financial compensation of an agreement, fishing agreement, fishing licence, fishing regulations, protocol to an agreement

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 115/2006

of 23 January 2006

on the conclusion of the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January
2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement
between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Seychelles on fishing off
Seychelles

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty
establishing the European
Community, 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,

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Under the Agreement between the European Economic
Community and the Republic of Seychelles on fishing off
Seychelles (2), the two parties conducted negotiations to
determine the amendments or additions to be made to
the Agreement at the end of the period of application of
the Protocol thereto.

As a result of those negotiations, a new Protocol defining
for the period 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011 the
contribution
fishing opportunities and the
provided for in that Agreement was initialled on 23
September 2004.

financial

in the Community's

is
It
Protocol.

interest

to approve that

The scale for allocating the fishing opportunities among
the Member States should be defined on the basis of the
traditional allocation of fishing opportunities under the
Fisheries Agreement,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005
to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial
contribution provided for by the Agreement between the

European Economic Community and the Republic of Seychelles
on fishing off Seychelles is hereby approved on behalf of the
Community.

The text of the Protocol is attached to this Regulation (3).

Article 2

The fishing opportunities provided for in the Protocol shall be
allocated among the Member States as follows:

— tuna seiners:

Spain:

22 vessels

France:

17 vessels

Italy:

1 vessel

— surface longliners:

Spain:

2 vessels

France:

5 vessels

Portugal: 5 vessels

If licence applications from these Member States do not cover
all the fishing opportunities laid down by the Protocol, the
Commission may take into consideration licence applications
from any other Member State.

Article 3

fishing zone

Member States whose vessels fish under the Protocol are obliged
to notify the Commission of the quantities of each stock taken
in the Seychelles
in accordance with the
arrangements laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No
500/2001 of 14 March 2001 laying down detailed rules for
the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 on the
monitoring of catches taken by Community fishing vessels in
third-country waters and on the high seas (4).

(1) Opinion of 15 December 2005 (not yet published in the Official

Journal).

(2) OJ L 119, 7.5.1987, p. 26.

(3) OJ L 348, 30.12.2005, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 73, 15.3.2001, p. 8.

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Article 4

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate the persons empowered to sign the Protocol
in order to bind the Community.

Article 5

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

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

Done at Brussels, 23 January 2006.

For the Council
The President

J. PRÖLL