Commission Regulation (EC) No 446/2008 of 22 May 2008 adapting certain bluefin tuna quotas in 2008 pursuant to Article 21(4) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 establishing a control system applicable to the Common Fisheries Policy
Date: 2008-05-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: authorised catch, catch quota, common fisheries policy, fishing controls, sea fish

23.5.2008

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 446/2008

of 22 May 2008

adapting certain bluefin tuna quotas in 2008 pursuant to Article 21(4) of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 2847/93 establishing a control system applicable to the Common Fisheries Policy

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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 21(4)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Council Regulation (EC) No 41/2007 (2),
fixed the
amount of bluefin tuna which could be fished in 2007
in the Atlantic Ocean, east of longitude 45° W, and the
Mediterranean sea by Community fishing vessels.

France and Italy overfished their bluefin tuna quotas in
2007.

On the basis of the exhaustion of the Community share,
fishing for bluefin tuna by vessels flying the flag of or
registered in Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Malta or Portugal was
prohibited
(EC) No
by
1073/2007 (3).

Commission

Regulation

their quotas. The quotas which could not be used by
those Member States in 2007 amounted to 438,6 tonnes.

Council Regulation (EC) No 40/2008 (4),
the
amount of bluefin tuna which may be fished in 2008
in the areas concerned.

fixes

It
is appropriate to make deductions from the 2008
bluefin tuna quotas of France and Italy and to allocate
the amounts deducted, as appropriate, to the Member
States whose fishing activities were halted before their
quotas were exhausted.

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

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) quotas allocated to France and
Italy for the year 2008 shall be reduced and the amounts
deducted shall be allocated to Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Malta
and Portugal for 2008 as shown in the Annex.

Article 2

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1073/2007 entered into force before
Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Malta and Portugal had exhausted

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, 22 May 2008.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

(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), corrected
version in OJ L 36, 8.2.2007, p. 6.

(2) OJ L 15, 20.1.2007, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1533/2007 (OJ L 337, 21.12.2007, p. 21).

(3) OJ L 245, 20.9.2007, p. 3.

(4) OJ L 19, 23.1.2008, p. 1.

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