2007/429/EC: Commission Decision of 18 June 2007 amending Decision 2005/429/EC establishing a specific monitoring programme related to the recovery of cod stocks (notified under document number C(2007) 2550)
Date: 2007-06-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common fisheries policy, conservation of fish stocks, fishing controls, sea fish

L 160/28

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Official Journal of the European Union

21.6.2007

COMMISSION DECISION

of 18 June 2007

amending Decision 2005/429/EC establishing a specific monitoring programme related to the
recovery of cod stocks

(notified under document number C(2007) 2550)

(only the Danish, German, English, French, Dutch and Swedish texts are authentic)

(2007/429/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

priate level of implementation of the conservation and
control measures applicable
in
relation to the recovery of cod stocks.

to fishing activities

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12
October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the
common fisheries policy (1), and in particular Article 34c(1)
thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

Council Regulation (EC) No 423/2004 (2),
lays down
measures
in the
recovery of
Kattegat, the North Sea, the Skagerrak and the Eastern
Channel, the West of Scotland and the Irish Sea.

cod stocks

the

for

(1)

(2)

The specific monitoring programme is necessary for the
organisation of operational cooperation between Member
States concerned and to allow the Community Fisheries
Control Agency to organise joint deployment plans in
accordance with Article 9 of Council Regulation (EC)
No 768/2005 (7).

In order to ensure the continued implementation of
conservation and control measures, the specific moni-
toring programme should be extended for a period of
one year.

(EC) No 27/2005 (3),

and (EC) No 41/2007 (5), provide
limitations

(EC) No
Council Regulations
51/2006 (4)
for
additional
and
interim fishing
inspection and surveillance
conditions for monitoring,
in the context of certain stocks
recovery measures
applicable to all fisheries likely to catch cod in those
waters.

effort

(6)

Decision 2005/429/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

(7)

The measures provided for
accordance with the opinion of
Fisheries and Aquaculture,

in this Decision are in
the Committee for

(3)

Commission Decision 2005/429/EC (6)
a
specific monitoring programme applicable for a period
of two years with the objective of guaranteeing an appro-

establishes

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(1) OJ L 261, 20.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1967/2006 (OJ L 409, 30.12.2006, p. 11).

(2) OJ L 70, 9.3.2004, p. 8. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 441/2007 (OJ L 104, 21.4.2007, p. 28).

(3) OJ L 12, 14.1.2005, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) 1936/2005 (OJ L 311, 26.11.2005, p. 1).
(4) OJ L 16, 20.1.2006, p. 1. Regulation as

(EC) No 2017/2006 (OJ

last amended by
L 384,

Commission Regulation
29.12.2006, p. 44).

(5) OJ L 15, 20.1.2007, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Commission

Regulation (EC) No 609/2007 (OJ L 141, 2.6.2007, p. 33).

(6) OJ L 148, 11.6.2005, p. 36.

Article 1

In Article 1 of Decision 2005/429/EC, the words ‘for a period
of two years’ are replaced by the words ‘for a period of three
years’.

(7) OJ L 128, 21.5.2005, p. 1.

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Official Journal of the European Union

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This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of
Germany, the French Republic, Ireland, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Sweden and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 18 June 2007.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission