2006/113/EC: Council Decision of  14 February 2006  on the signature, on behalf of the European Community, and the provisional application of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the provisional application of the Protocol amending the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for in the Agreement on cooperation in the sea fisheries sector between the European Community and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for the period  1 August 2001  to  31 July 2006
Date: 2006-02-14
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Mauritania, financial compensation of an agreement, fishing agreement, interim agreement (EU), protocol to an agreement, signature of an agreement

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COUNCIL DECISION

of 14 February 2006

on the signature, on behalf of the European Community, and the provisional application of the
Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters concerning the provisional application of the
Protocol amending the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution
provided for in the Agreement on cooperation in the sea fisheries sector between the European
Community and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for the period 1 August 2001 to 31 July 2006

(2006/113/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(category

liners
(category 9).

8)

and

pelagic

freezer

trawlers

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community, and in particular Article 37 in conjunction with
Article 300(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

(4)

(5)

So that those amendments to fishing opportunities can
apply as
should,
therefore, be signed in the form of an Exchange of
Letters, subject to its definitive conclusion by the Council.

soon as possible,

the Agreement

The allocation of the new fishing opportunities among
the Member States,
should be
confirmed,

amended,

thus

as

Whereas:

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the
financial contribution provided for in the Agreement on
cooperation in the sea fisheries
sector between the
European Community and the Islamic Republic of Maur-
itania is applicable for the period 1 August 2001 to
31 July 2006 (1).

In view of
the scientific opinions on the state of
resources in the Mauritanian EEZ and, in particular, the
results of the fourth and fifth working groups of the
Mauritanian Institute of Oceanographic Research and
Fisheries (IMROP) and of
the joint scientific working
group, and in the light of the conclusions drawn from
those results at the meeting of the Joint Committee held
on 10 September and 15 and 16 December 2004, the
two parties have decided to amend the existing fishing
opportunities.

The outcome of those amendments has been the subject
of an Exchange of Letters and involves a temporary
cephalopods
reduction
(category 5), the fixing of a second closed period of
one month for demersal fishing, and an increase in the
number of pole-and-line tuna vessels and surface long-

fishing

effort

the

for

in

(1) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 128.

Article 1

The signature of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of
Letters concerning the provisional application of the Protocol
amending the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and
the financial contribution provided for in the Agreement on
cooperation in the sea fisheries sector between the European
Community and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for the
period 1 August 2001 to 31 July 2006 is hereby approved
on behalf of the Community, subject to the conclusion of the
said Agreement.

The text of the Agreement is attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate
the persons empowered to sign the Agreement in the form of
an Exchange of Letters on behalf of the Community subject to
its conclusion.

Article 3

The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters shall be
applied on a provisional basis by the Community as from
1 January 2005.

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Article 4

Following the amendments set out in the Exchange of Letters,
the new fishing opportunities for the ‘pole-and-line tuna vessel
and surface longliner’ category (Datasheet No 8 of the Protocol)
and for the ‘pelagic freezer trawler’ category (Datasheet No 9)
shall be allocated among the Member States as follows:

five fishing licences for
take effect as

the
The temporary suspension of
cephalopod fishing category shall
from 1
January 2005. The future reactivation of those five licences
shall be decided by common accord in a Joint Committee
meeting held between the Commission and the Mauritanian
authorities on the basis of the state of resources.

Fishing category

Member State

Tonnage/Number of
vessels which may
be used

Pole-and-line tuna vessels
Surface longliners (vessels)

Spain

Portugal

France

20 + 3 = 23

3 + 0 = 3

8 + 1 = 9

Pelagic species (vessels)

15 + 10 = 25

If licence applications from Member States do not cover all the
the
fishing opportunities
Commission may take into consideration licence applications
from any other Member State.

down by

Protocol,

laid

the

Done at Brussels, 14 February 2006.

For the Council
The President

K.-H. GRASSER