2008/794/EC: Commission Decision of 9 October 2008 on the allocation to the United Kingdom of additional days at sea within ICES division VIIe (notified under document number C(2008) 5657)
Date: 2008-10-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU waters, United Kingdom, fishery management, fishing area, fishing controls, fishing regulations, fishing rights, ship's flag

14.10.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 272/15

COMMISSION DECISION

of 9 October 2008

on the allocation to the United Kingdom of additional days at sea within ICES division VIIe

(notified under document number C(2008) 5657)

(Only the English text is authentic)

(2008/794/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 40/2008 of
16 January 2008 fixing for 2008 the fishing opportunities
and associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups
of
for
fish stocks, applicable in Community waters and,
Community vessels,
in waters where catch limitations are
required (1), and in particular point 9 of Annex IIC thereto,

Having regard to the requests made by the United Kingdom,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Point 7 of Annex IIC to Regulation (EC) No 40/2008
specifies the maximum number of days at sea (192) for
which Community vessels of length overall equal to or
greater than 10 meters carrying on board beam trawls of
mesh size equal to or greater than 80 mm or static nets,
trammel-nets and tangle-nets, with
including gill-nets,
mesh size less than 220 mm may be present within
ICES
to
from 1
31 January 2009.

division VIIe

February

2008

Point 9 of
that Annex enables the Commission to
allocate an additional number of days at sea for which
a vessel may be present within that area when carrying
on board such beam trawls or static nets, on the basis of
permanent cessations of fishing activities that have taken
place since 1 January 2004.

The United Kingdom has submitted data demonstrating
that vessels which ceased activities since 1 January 2004,
excluding those already taken into account
in earlier
years, deployed 3,36 % of the fishing effort expended
during the year 2003,
taken as reference period for
vessels present in the area and carrying on board beam
trawls of mesh size equal to or greater than 80 mm.

(4)

In view of the data submitted and applying the calcu­
lation method foreseen under point 9.1, six additional

days at sea should be allocated to the United Kingdom
for the period between 1 February 2008 and 31 January
2009 for vessels carrying on board such beam trawls.

(5)

For reasons of clarity this Decision reflects the total
amount of additional days allocated to the United
Kingdom, and takes into account
the 22 additional
days at sea that have been previously allocated by
Commission
Decisions
and
2007/487/EC (3) on the
allocation to the United
Kingdom of
days within ICES
fishing
additional
division VIIe, as these additional days remain allocated
in 2008.

2006/461/EC (2)

(6)

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

in this Decision are in
the Committee for

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

To the 192 maximum number of days a fishing vessel flying the
flag of the United Kingdom and carrying on board beam trawls
of mesh size equal to or greater than 80 mm may be present in
ICES division VIIe, as laid down in table I of Annex IIC to
Regulation (EC) No 40/2008, 28 days shall be added. The
number of 192 shall thus be amended to 220.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 9 October 2008.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

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

(2) OJ L 180, 4.7.2006, p. 25.
(3) OJ L 182, 12.7.2007, p. 33.