Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/916 of 15 May 2025 operating a deduction from the fishing effort available to Italy in 2025 on account of overfishing in the previous year
Date: 2025-05-15
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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2025/916


16.5.2025







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/916
of 15 May 2025
         
operating a deduction from the fishing effort available to Italy in 2025 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) and (2) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Fishing efforts for the years 2024 and 2025 have been established, respectively, by Council Regulations (EU) 2024/259 (2) and (EU) 2025/219 (3).












(2)


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.












(3)


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 a multiplying factor as set out therein.












(4)


Italy has exceeded the maximum allowable fishing effort for bottom trawl vessels of Type 10 length targeting European hake in the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) geographical subareas 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 (EFF4/MED4_OTB2) allocated to it for the year 2024.












(5)


A deduction should therefore be operated on the fishing effort allocated to Italy in 2025 for the exceeded fishing effort in the fishing areas and fisheries concerned.












(6)


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 pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
The fishing effort fixed for the year 2025 in Regulation (EU) 2025/219 shall be reduced as set out in the Annex 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, 15 May 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) 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).

(3)  Council Regulation (EU) 2025/219 of 30 January 2025 fixing for 2025 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks applicable in the Mediterranean and Black Seas (OJ L, 2025/219, 4.2.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/219/oj).




ANNEX
Deduction from the fishing effort for the year 2025 for the stock which has been overfished
















Member State


Fishing effort group code


Stock group


Vessel length


Vessel type


Initial fishing effort allocated for 2024 (in fishing days)


Adapted fishing effort for 2024 (1)

(in fishing days)


Total fishing effort deployed in 2024
(in fishing days)


Effort uptake in 2024 (in %)


Overfishing related to adapted fishing effort in 2024
(in fishing days)


Multiplying factor (2)



Deduction to apply on the fishing effort allocation for 2025
(in fishing days)




ITA


EFF4/MED4_OTB2


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


T-10


Bottom trawl vessels


188 


188 


206 


109,57 


18 


1,0 


18 






(1)  Effort available to a Member State pursuant to the relevant fishing opportunities Regulation after taking into account possible transfer of fishing opportunities, 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.



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/916/oj
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