Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/713 of 14 April 2025 operating deductions from fishing effort available to Italy in 2024 on account of overfishing in the previous year
Date: 2025-04-14
Institutions: Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission
Subjects: EU waters, Italy, Mediterranean Sea, catch by species, catch quota, deep-sea fishing, fishing area, fishing net, fishing rights, fishing vessel, sea fish








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Official Journal of the European Union


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2025/713


15.4.2025







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/713
of 14 April 2025
         
operating deductions from fishing effort available to Italy in 2024 on account of overfishing in the previous year


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009 establishing a Union control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy, amending Regulations (EC) No 847/96, (EC) No 2371/2002, (EC) No 811/2004, (EC) No 768/2005, (EC) No 2115/2005, (EC) No 2166/2005, (EC) No 388/2006, (EC) No 509/2007, (EC) No 676/2007, (EC) No 1098/2007, (EC) No 1300/2008, (EC) No 1342/2008 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2847/93, (EC) No 1627/94 and (EC) No 1966/2006 (1), and in particular Article 106(1), (2) and (3) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Fishing effort opportunities for the year 2023 have been established by Council Regulation (EU) 2023/195 (2).












(2)


Fishing effort opportunities for the year 2024 have been established by Council Regulation (EU) 2024/259 (3).












(3)


Pursuant to Article 106(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, when the Commission has established that a Member State has exceeded the fishing effort which has been allocated to it, the Commission is to operate deductions from the future fishing effort allocated to that Member State.












(4)


Article 106(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 provides that such deductions are to be operated in the following year or years by applying the respective multiplying factors as set out therein.












(5)


Italy has exceeded the maximum allowable fishing effort allocated to it for the year 2023 for Type 10 length bottom trawl vessels targeting European hake in the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) geographical subareas 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 (EFF4/MED4_OTB2) and for demersal longliners targeting European hake in the GFCM geographical subareas 8, 9, 10 and 11 (EFF1/MED2_LL3).












(6)


Deductions should therefore be operated on the fishing effort allocated to Italy in 2024 for the overfished fishing effort in the areas and fisheries concerned.












(7)


However, the fishing effort available to Italy in 2024 for Type 10 length bottom trawl vessels targeting European hake in the GFCM geographical subareas 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 (EFF4/MED4_OTB2) is not available to operate the due deduction on the fishing effort in the same area and fishery concerned.












(8)


Article 106(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 provides that if the deduction cannot be operated on the fishing effort that was exceeded because such fishing effort is not or not sufficiently available to the Member State concerned, the Commission may deduct in the following year or years fishing effort available to that Member State in the same geographical area.












(9)


It is therefore appropriate to operate the deduction from fishing effort allocated to Italy for Type 11 length bottom trawl vessels targeting European hake in the GFCM geographical subareas 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 (EFF4/MED4_OTB3).












(10)


Italy has been informed and consulted about the Commission’s intention to operate the deduction from this alternative fishing effort allocated to that Member State in 2024 in the same geographical area.












(11)


Further updates or corrections may still occur following the detection, for the current or previous deduction exercises, of errors, omissions or misreporting in the fishing effort deployment data declared by Italy pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The fishing effort opportunities fixed for the year 2024 in Regulation (EU) 2024/259 shall be reduced as set out in the Annexes to this Regulation.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of 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, 14 April 2025.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2009/1224/oj.

(2)  Council Regulation (EU) 2023/195 of 30 January 2023 fixing for 2023 the fishing opportunities for certain stocks and groups of fish stocks applicable in the Mediterranean and Black Seas and amending Regulation (EU) 2022/110 as regards the fishing opportunities for 2022 applicable in the Mediterranean and the Black Seas (OJ L 28, 31.1.2023, p. 220, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/195/oj).

(3)  Council Regulation (EU) 2024/259 of 10 January 2024 fixing for 2024 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks applicable in the Mediterranean and Black Seas (OJ L, 2024/259, 11.1.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/259/oj).




ANNEX I
DEDUCTION FROM FISHING EFFORT FOR THE YEAR 2024 FOR THE STOCK WHICH HAS BEEN OVERFISHED
















Mem-ber State


Fishing effort group code


Stock group


Vessel length


Vessel type


Initial fishing effort days allocated for 2023


Adapted fishing effort days for 2023 (1)



Total fishing effort days deployed in 2023


Effort days uptake in 2023 (in %)


Overfishing related to adapted fishing effort in 2023 (quantity in days)


Multiplying factor (2)



Deduction to apply on the fishing effort allocation for 2024 (quantity in days)




ITA


EFF1/MED2_LL3


Hake in GFCM geographical subareas 8, 9, 10 and 11


≥ 18 m and < 24 m


Demersal longliners


26 


26 


46 


176,92 


20 


2,0 


40 






(1)  Effort available to a Member State pursuant to the relevant fishing opportunities Regulation after taking into account possible transfer of fishing days, exchanges of fishing opportunities in accordance with Article 16(8) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/1380/oj), as well as deduction of fishing opportunities in accordance with Article 106 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.

(2)  As set out in Article 106(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.





ANNEX II
DEDUCTION FROM FISHING EFFORT FOR THE YEAR 2024 TO BE APPLIED ON AN ALTERNATIVE STOCK
















Mem-ber State


Fishing effort group code


Stock group


Vessel length


Vessel type


Initial fishing effort days allocated for 2023


Adapted fishing effort days for 2023 (1)



Total fishing effort days deployed in 2023


Effort days uptake in 2023 (in %)


Overfishing related to adapted fishing effort in 2023 (quantity in days)


Multi-plying factor (2)



Deduction to apply on the fishing effort allocation for alternative stock for 2024 (quantity in days)




ITA


EFF4/MED4_OTB2


Hake in GFCM geographical subareas 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16


T-10


Bottom trawl vessels


188 


188 


364 


193,62 


176 


2,0 


352 




Deduction to be applied on the following stock group




ITA


EFF4/MED4_OTB3


Hake in GFCM geographical subareas 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16


T-11


Bottom trawl vessels


/


/


/


/


/


/


352 






(1)  Effort available to a Member State pursuant to the relevant fishing opportunities Regulation after taking into account possible transfer of fishing days, exchanges of fishing opportunities in accordance with Article 16(8) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, as well as deduction of fishing opportunities in accordance with Article 106 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.

(2)  As set out in Article 106(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/713/oj
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