2006/788/EC: Council Decision of 7 November 2006 on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the provisional application of the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Agreement between the European Community and the Gabonese Republic on fishing off the coast of Gabon for the period from 3 December 2005 to 2 December 2011
Date: 2006-11-07
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Gabon, agreement (EU), deep-sea fishing, financial compensation of an agreement, fishing agreement, fishing regulations, protocol to an agreement, ratification of an agreement

18.11.2006

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Official Journal of the European Union

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COUNCIL

COUNCIL DECISION

of 7 November 2006

on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the provisional
application of the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided
for in the Agreement between the European Community and the Gabonese Republic on fishing off
the coast of Gabon for the period from 3 December 2005 to 2 December 2011

(2006/788/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

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

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

The Community and the Gabonese Republic have nego-
tiated and initialled a Fisheries Partnership Agreement
providing Community fishermen with fishing opportu-
nities in the waters falling within the sovereignty of the
Gabonese Republic.

Article 1

The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the
provisional application of the Protocol setting out the fishing
opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the
Agreement between the European Community
and the
Gabonese Republic on fishing off the coast of Gabon for the
period from 3 December 2005 to 2 December 2011 is hereby
approved on behalf of the Community.

The text of the Agreement is attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The Agreement shall apply provisionally from 3 December
2005.

in the Community's

is

It
Agreement.

interest

to approve that

Article 3

is necessary to guarantee the continuity of
from the date of expiry of

It
activities
Protocol (1) until
Protocol
financial contribution provided for in that Agreement.

the date of entry into force of
fishing opportunities

fishing
the previous
the
and

setting out

the

(4)

The method for allocating the fishing opportunities
among the Member States should be defined,

(1) Approved by Council Regulation (EC) No 580/2002 of 25 March

2002 (OJ L 89, 5.4.2002, p. 3).

to the
set out
The fishing opportunities
Agreement shall be allocated among the Member States as
follows:

in the Protocol

Fishing category

Type of vessel

Member State

Licences or
quota

Tuna fishing

Surface longliners

Spain

Portugal

Tuna fishing

Freezer tuna seiners

Spain

France

13

3

12

12

(1)

(2)

(3)

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

Article 4

The Member States whose vessels fish under this Agreement
shall notify the Commission of the quantities of each stock
caught within the Gabonese fishing zone in accordance with
Commission Regulation (EC) No 500/2001 of 14 March 2001
laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regu-
lation (EEC) No 2847/93 on the monitoring of catches taken by
Community fishing vessels in third country waters and on the
high seas (1).

Article 5

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 in order to bind the Community.

Done at Brussels, 7 November 2006.

For the Council
The President

E. HEINÄLUOMA

(1) OJ L 73, 15.3.2001, p. 8.