Commission Regulation (EC) No 898/2006 of  19 June 2006  amending Council Regulation (EC) No 51/2006 as regards catch limits and fishing effort limitations for the fisheries on sandeel in ICES zones IIa (EC waters), IIIa and IV (EC waters)
Date: 2006-06-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU waters, authorised catch, fishery management, fishing area, fishing regulations, fishing rights, sea fish

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EN

Official Journal of the European Union

20.6.2006

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 898/2006

of 19 June 2006

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 51/2006 as regards catch limits and fishing effort limitations
for the fisheries on sandeel in ICES zones IIa (EC waters), IIIa and IV (EC waters)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 51/2006 of 22
December 2005 fixing for 2006 the fishing opportunities and
associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of fish
stocks, applicable in Community waters and, for Community
vessels, in waters where catch limitations are required (1), and in
particular Article 5(4) and Article 7(4) thereof,

Whereas:

shall be fixed at 300 000 tonnes. The total kilowatt-days
for each year are calculated as the product of the number
of days present within the area and the installed engine
power in kilowatts.

(3)

(4)

STECF has estimated the strength of the 2005 year-class
to be not less than 324 000 million individuals at age 0.

Regulation (EC) No 51/2006 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

Catch limits and fishing effort limitations for sandeel in
ICES zones IIa (EC waters), IIIa and IV (EC waters) are
provisionally laid down in Annexes IA and IID to Regu-
lation (EC) No 51/2006.

Pursuant to point 6 of Annex IID to Regulation (EC) No
51/2006 the Commission shall revise the catch limits
and fishing effort limitations for 2006 based on advice
from the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee
for Fisheries (STECF) on the size of the 2005 year class
of North Sea sandeel. Where STECF estimates the size of
the 2005 year class of North Sea sandeel to be between
300 000 million and 500 000 million individuals at age
0, the number of kilowatt-days shall not exceed the level
in 2003 calculated as the total kilowatt-days for each
for 2006
year and the total allowable catches (TAC)

Regulation (EC) No 51/2006 is amended as follows:

1. Annex IA is amended in accordance with the Annex to this

Regulation;

2.

in Annex IID, point 5 is replaced by the following:

‘5. Each Member State shall ensure that

the number of
kilowatt-days in 2006 for vessels flying its flag or
registered in the Community does not exceed the level
in 2003 as calculated in point 4(a).’

Article 2

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, 19 June 2006.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 16, 20.1.2006, p. 1.

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ANNEX

Annex IA to Regulation (EC) No 51/2006 is amended as follows:

the entry concerning the species sandeel in zone IIa (EC waters) and IIIa, IV (EC waters) is replaced by the following:

Species:

‘Denmark
United Kingdom

All Member States

EC

Norway

TAC

______________

Sandeel
Ammodytidae

282 989

6 186

10 825 (2)

300 000

0 (3) (4)

300 000

Zone: IIa (EC waters) (1), IIIa, IV (EC waters) (1)

SAN/2A3A4

Analytical TAC.
Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 applies.
Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 applies.
Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 applies.

(1) Excluding waters within six miles of UK baselines at Shetland, Fair Isle and Foula.
(2) Except Denmark and the United Kingdom.
(3) To be taken in the North Sea.
(4) Subject to review during 2006.’