Council Regulation (EC) No 1316/2006 of 22 May 2006 on the conclusion 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: 2006-05-22
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: European Community, Mauritania, financial compensation of an agreement, fishing agreement, fishing rights, protocol to an agreement, ratification of an agreement

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1316/2006

of 22 May 2006

application of

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

amending the Protocol

the Protocol

setting out

the

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,

(4)

(5)

is in the Community's interest

It
amendments.

to approve those

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

amended,

thus

as

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the
financial contribution provided for in the Agreement on
sector between the
cooperation in the sea fisheries
European Community and the Islamic Republic of Maur-
itania applies for the period 1 August 2001 to 31 July
2006 (2).

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
party, and in the light of the conclusions drawn from
those results at the meetings 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.

in

the

fishing

The outcome of those amendments has been the subject
of an Exchange of Letters and involves a temporary
reduction
cephalopods
(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-
liners (category 8) and pelagic freezer trawlers (category
9).

effort

for

(1) Not yet published in the Official Journal.
(2) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 128.

Article 1

the provisional

in the form of an Exchange of Letters
The Agreement
the
Protocol
application of
concerning
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 (3) is hereby approved
on behalf of the Community.

Article 2

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:

Fishing category

Member State

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

Spain

Portugal

France

Pelagic species (vessels)

(3) OJ L 48, 18.2.2006, p. 24.

Tonnage/number of
vessels which may be
used

20 + 3 = 23

3 + 0 = 3

8 + 1 = 9

15 + 10 = 25

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The temporary suspension of five (5) fishing licences for the
cephalopod fishing category shall take effect as from 1 January
2005. The future reactivation of those five (5) 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.

If licence applications from Member States do not cover all the
the
fishing opportunities

down by

Protocol,

laid

the

Commission may take into consideration licence applications
from any other Member State.

Article 3

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, 22 May 2006.

For the Council
The President

J. PRÖLL