CELEX: 31986R4041
Language: en
Date: 1986-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4041/86 of 22 December 1986 fixing the flat-rate amounts of horse mackerel and blue whiting allocated to Spain for 1987

31 . 12 . 86                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 376 / 109
                                             COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4041 / 86
                                                          of 22 December 1986
                  fixing the flat-rate amounts of horse mackerel and blue whiting allocated to Spain for
                                                                   1987
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                               Whereas , under Article 158 of the Act of Accession, a
                                                                        distinction must be made between fishing for demersal
                                                                        species and fishing for species other than demersal and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   whereas the group to which blue whiting and horse
Economic Community ,                                                    mackerel belong must therefore be defined ,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal (*) and in particular Article 161 thereof,
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas , under Article 161 of the Act of Accession ,                                              Article 1
 flat-rate amounts of horse mackerel and blue whiting are
 allocated to Spain together with, for a three-year period, a            The zones in which the flat-rate quantities of horse
 supplementary quantity of hake which may not exceed                     mackerel and blue whiting allocated to Spain for 1987 may
 4 500 tonnes and the size of which is determined annually               be fished shall be as set out in the Annex .
 on the basis of the state of the stocks concerned ;
 Whereas those flat-rate amounts of horse mackerel and                                             Article 2
 blue whiting must be distributed among ICES sub-areas
 and divisions V b ( EC zone ), VI, VII and VIII a , b                   Blue whiting and horse mackerel shall, for the purposes of
 and d;                                                                  the fishing activities referred to in this Regulation, be
                                                                         considered to be species other than demersal .
 Whereas the overall level of the share of hake available to
 the Community in ICES sub-areas and divisions V b (EC
 zone), VI , VII and VIII a and b reaches 60 000 tonnes for                                        Article 3
 1987 ; whereas therefore there is no reason to allocate to
 Spain for that year the said flat-rate amount of hake;                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1987 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels , 22 December 1986 .
                                                                                              For the Council
                                                                                               The President
                                                                                                  G. SHAW
  (') OJ No L 302 , 15 . 11 . 1985 , p. 23 .
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                                                                        ANNEX
                                                       Allocation of the flat-rate amounts
                                                                                                         Flat-rate amounts
                              Species                                   ICES zone
                                                                                                              (tonnes)
            Horse mackerel                               V b (EC zone), VI , VII ( J )                         10 000
                                                         VIII a , b , d                                       21 000
            Blue whiting                                 V b ( EC zone), VI , VII (^                           10 000
                                                         VIII a , b , d                                       20 000
            (') Fishing is prohibited in the area south of latitude 56°30' N, east of longitude 12°00' W and north of latitude 50°30 '
                N.