CELEX: 51992PC0517
Language: en
Date: 1992-12-03
Title: Amended proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on the common organization of the market in fishery and aquaculture products

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                     COM(92) 517 final
                                      Brussels, 3 December 1992
                    Amended proposal for a
                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
     on the common organization of the market in fishery
                   and aquaculture products
   (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149(3)
                      of the EEC Treaty)
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                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
As part of the reform of the common fisheries policy the Commission has
proposed adjusting ^the common organization of the market in fishery products
in the light of the depletion of stocks and with a view to improving the
effectiveness of market support mechanisms and simplifying the rules in
question.
To this end, the Commission presented to the Council on 20 March 1992 a
"Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on the common organization of the
market in fishery products"!.
On 20 November 1992 Parliament adopted a resolution giving its opinion on
the proposal and containing 16 amendments. The Commission agreed to amend
its initial proposal to take account of the following amendments:
       -   specification in the title and     Article 1 that  the  Regulation
          applies to aquaculture products;
       -  maintenance of the threshold triggering compensatory allowances
          for producers of tuna for industrial purposes at 93% of the
          Community production price (Article 18);
       -   inclusion of the lesser or Greenland halibut and frozen hake
          fillets in the list of products eligible for private storage aid
           (Annex II);
       -  withdrawal of frozen hake fillets from       Annex V,  since  these
          products are to be included in Annex II.
Parliament reserves the right to invoke the conciliation procedure if the
Council departs from its proposed amendments.
The Commission on the other hand, has not kept the other amendments taking
into account :
-      that they are contrary to the control of the production;
-      that they are incompatible with the commitments of the community to
       GATT;
       that they are not justifiable from an economic pount of view.
       COM (92) 79 final of 20 March 1992
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                              COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)                        ^
                on the common organization of the market in fishery
                              and aquaculture products
The Commission's proposal is hereby amended as follows:
1.     In the title of the proposal, insert the words      "and  aquaculture"
       between "fishery" and "products".
2.     On page 9, insert the following paragraph after the first paragraph
       in Article 1:
       "For the purposes of this Regulation, the expression "fishery
       products" shall include catch products and aquaculture products."
3.     On page 24, on the penultimate line of Article 18(1) replace "85%"
       with "93%".
4.     On page 36, replace point A of Annex II with the following point:
       "A.     Frozen products of headings 0303 and 0304
               0303 31 10       Lesser or Greenland halibut     (Reinhardtius
                                hippoglossoides)
               0303 78 10 and Hake of the genus Merluccius
               0304 20 57"
5.     On page 40, remove from the column "Fish fillets and other fish meat
       (whether or not minced), frozen" the tariff codes "ex 0304 20 57" and
       "ex 0304 90 47", corresponding to hake.
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