Commission Regulation (EC) No 169/2008 of 25 February 2008 excluding ICES Subdivisions 27 and 28.2 from certain fishing effort limitations and recording obligations for 2008, pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 establishing a multiannual plan for the cod stocks in the Baltic Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks
Date: 2008-02-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Baltic Sea, conservation of fish stocks, fishing area, fishing controls, fishing rights, sea fish

26.2.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 51/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 169/2008

of 25 February 2008

excluding ICES Subdivisions 27 and 28.2 from certain fishing effort limitations and recording
to Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 establishing a
obligations

for 2008, pursuant

multiannual plan for the cod stocks in the Baltic Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 of
18 September 2007 establishing a multiannual plan for the
cod stocks in the Baltic Sea and the fisheries exploiting those
stocks, amending Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 and repealing
Regulation (EC) No 779/97 (1), and in particular Article 29(2)
thereof,

Having regard to the reports submitted by Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden,

Having regard to the opinion of the Scientific, Technical and
Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF),

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

Taking into account the reports submitted by Member
States and the advice from the STECF, Subdivisions 27
and 28.2 should be excluded in 2008 from the scope of
those fishing effort limitations and recording obligations.

In order to ensure that account could be taken of the
latest information made available by the Member States
and to allow the scientific advice to be based on the
most accurate information, the ultimate date laid down
in Article 29(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 for
the final conclusion concerning the need to exclude the
respective Subdivisions could not be met.

Regulations (EC) No 1098/2007 and (EC) No 1404/2007
apply from 1 January 2008. In order to ensure coherence
with those Regulations,
this Regulation should apply
retroactively from that date.

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

(1)

(2)

(3)

Provisions for setting fishing effort limitations for the cod
stocks in the Baltic Sea and on the recording of related
fishing effort data are set out in Council Regulation (EC)
No 1098/2007.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

On the basis of (EC) No 1098/2007, Annex II to Council
Regulation (EC) No 1404/2007 (2) has established fishing
effort limitations for 2008 in the Baltic Sea.

Article 8(1)(b), (3), (4) and (5) and Article 13 of Regulation (EC)
No 1098/2007 shall not apply to ICES Subdivisions 27 and
28.2.

According to Article 29(2) and Article 29(4) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1098/2007 the Commission may
exclude Subdivisions 27 and 28.2 from the scope of
certain fishing effort limitations and recording obligations
when the catches of cod were below a certain threshold
in the last reporting period.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2008.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 25 February 2008.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 248, 22.9.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 312, 30.11.2007, p. 1.