Council Regulation (EC) No 242/2008 of 17 March 2008 on the conclusion of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
Date: 2008-03-17
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Côte d'Ivoire, agreement (EU), fishery management, fishing agreement, fishing rights

18.3.2008

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 242/2008

of 17 March 2008

on the conclusion of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and
the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Article 2

Having regard to the Treaty
establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 37 in conjunction with
Article 300(2) and the first subparagraph of Article 300(3)
thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

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

in the Protocol

— 25 purse seiners:

France:

10 vessels

Spain:

15 vessels

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament (1),

— 15 surface longliners:

Whereas:

Spain:

10 vessels

Portugal:

5 vessels.

The Community has negotiated with Côte d’Ivoire a
Fisheries Partnership Agreement providing Community
vessels with fishing opportunities in the waters over
which Côte d’Ivoire has sovereignty or jurisdiction in
respect of fisheries.

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

As a result of those negotiations, a new Fisheries Part-
nership Agreement was initialled on 5 April 2007.

Article 3

in the Community’s

is

It
Agreement.

interest

to approve that

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

The Member States whose vessels fish under the Agreement
referred to in Article 1 shall notify the Commission of the
quantities of each stock caught within Côte d’Ivoire’s fishing
zone in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No
500/2001 of 14 March 2001 laying down detailed rules for
the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 on the
monitoring of catches taken by Community fishing vessels in
third country waters and on the high seas (3).

Article 4

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate
the person(s) empowered to sign the Agreement in order to
bind the Community.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 1

The Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European
Community and the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire (2)
is hereby
approved on behalf of the Community.

(1) Opinion of 11 March 2008 (not yet published in the Official

Journal).

(2) OJ L 48, 22.2.2008, p. 41.

Article 5

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

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

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

Done at Brussels, 17 March 2008.

For the Council
The President

I. JARC