Commission Regulation (EC) No 1274/2007 of 29 October 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 2104/2004 laying down detailed implementing rules for Council Regulation (EC) No 639/2004 on the management of fishing fleets registered in the Community outermost regions
Date: 2007-10-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Portugal, Spain, fishery management, fishing fleet, peripheral region

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1274/2007

of 29 October 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 2104/2004 laying down detailed implementing rules for Council
Regulation (EC) No 639/2004 on the management of fishing fleets registered in the Community
outermost regions

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 of 20
December 2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploi-
tation of
the Common Fisheries
Policy (1), and in particular Article 11(5) thereof,

resources under

fisheries

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 639/2004 of 30
March 2004 on the management of fishing fleets registered in
the Community outermost regions (2), and in particular Article
1(2) and Article 4(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The statement on outermost regions made jointly by the
Council and the Commission during the Fisheries Council
of 27 July 2006 (3) stresses the need for appropriate
measures ensuring the sustainable development of the
fisheries sector in those regions. Such measures are to
take account of the specificities of fishing activities in the
relevant areas. Furthermore, they are to be adopted in the
light of the ongoing study on this topic and in the light
of
the assessment, by the Scientific, Technical and
Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF), of the state
of fisheries resources in outermost regions.

Following that
statement, France and Portugal have
adopted development plans for Guadaloupe, Martinique,
French Guiana, Réunion and the Azores. An assessment
of the effects of those plans on fisheries resources has
been delivered by STECF during its plenary meeting of
April 2007.

At the same time complementary information has been
submitted to the Commission on proposed regular-
isations relating to an important number of vessels,
which carried out fishing activities before 31 December
2006 and remained active in outermost regions without
having been entered in the Community Fleet Register.
an
Such regularisations
extension to the development plans.

considered as

to be

are

(4)

(5)

the

The development plans contribute to the sustainable
in outermost
fisheries
development of
In this context the reference levels for some
regions.
regions should
of
be
(EC) No
2104/2004 (4) should therefore be amended accordingly.

the fleets registered in outermost

Commission

Regulation

reviewed.

sector

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2104/2004 is replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 29 October 2007.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 59. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 865/2007 (OJ L 192, 24.7.2007, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 102, 7.4.2004, p. 9. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 1646/2006 (OJ L 309, 9.11.2006, p. 1).

(3) Council Document No 11823/06 ADD 1, 20 July 2006.

(4) OJ L 365, 10.12.2004, p. 19. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1570/2005 (OJ L 252, 28.9.2005, p. 6).

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ANNEX

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Specific reference levels for fishing fleets registered in the outermost regions of Spain, France and Portugal

Spain

Fleet segment

Segment code

Canary Islands. Length < 12 m. EU waters

Canary Islands. Length ≥ 12 m. EU waters

Canary Islands. Length ≥ 12 m. International and third country
waters

CA1

CA2

CA3

GT

2 878

4 779

51 167

kW

23 202

16 055

90 680

Total

58 824

129 937

France

Fleet segment

Segment code

Réunion. Demersal and pelagic species. Length < 12 m

Réunion. Pelagic species. Length ≥ 12 m

French Guiana. Demersal and pelagic species. Length < 12 m

French Guiana. Shrimp vessels.

French Guiana. Pelagic species. Offshore vessels.

Martinique. Demersal and pelagic species. Length < 12 m

Martinique. Pelagic species. Length ≥ 12 m

Guadeloupe. Demersal and pelagic species. Length < 12 m

Guadeloupe. Pelagic species. Length ≥ 12 m

4FC

4FD

4FF

4FG

4FH

4FJ

4FK

4FL

4FM

GT

1 050

10 002

475

7 560

3 500

5 409

1 000

6 188

500

kW

19 320

31 465

6 260

19 726

5 000

142 116

3 000

167 765

1 750

Total

35 684

396 402

Portugal

Fleet segment

Segment code

Madeira. Demersal species. Length < 12 m

Madeira. Demersal and pelagic species. Length ≥ 12 m

Madeira. Pelagic species. Seine. Length ≥ 12 m

Azores. Demersal species. Length < 12 m

Azores. Demersal and pelagic species. Length ≥ 12 m

4K6

4K7

4K8

4K9

4KA

Total

GT

680

5 354

253

2 721

14 246

23 254

kW

4 574

17 414

1 170

30 910

29 845

83 913’