CELEX: 51977PC0360
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-13
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) prohibiting the direct fishing and landing of herring for industrial purposes (presented to the Council by the Commission)

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                                               COM(77 ) 360 final
                                             N Brussels , 14 July 1977
                              Proposal for a
                        COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
             . \
                  prohibiting the direct fishing and landing
                  of herring for industrial purposes
                 (presented to the Council by the Commission )
COM(77)360 final
 ---pagebreak---                         EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
           This proposal for a regulation prohibiting the fishing and
landing of herring for industrial purposes is part of the extended
conservation measures already proposed for this species .
           It is generally conceded that the preoccupying situation
affecting the greater part of the North Atlantic herring stocks is due
to the systematic over-exploitation of certain of these stocks and to
the intensive exploitation of others following the continuation of the
fishing effort .
           Such a situation cannot but cause difficulties in the provision
of supplies to the processing industry , in order to cover the traditional
needs for human consumption .   Moreover , this industry suffers from the
measures aimed at prohibiting or limiting catches which it is necessary
to take in order to remedy the situation described above .
           Taking into account these factors , it appears that the only
measure which allows for both the building up of stocks of herring to an
economically viable level and also for the allotment of quantities
presently available for the provisioning of the traditional market for
human consumption , involves the total ban of the industrial fishery for
herring in waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of Member States
 as well as their landing in the Community .
 ---pagebreak---                            Proposal for a
                        COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
            prohibiting the direct fishing and Landing of
                  herring for industrial purposes
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
and in particular Article 43 thereof .
Having regard to the proposal form the Commission ,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament ,
Whereas the greater part of the stocks of herring which are in waters under
the sovereignty and jurisdiction of Member States have reached an alarming
state , was the conservation measures which are necessary to take by limiting
the catches possibly affecting the interests of the traditional fishery
for human consumption and raise serious supply problems for the processing
industry ;
Whereas , in consequence , it is indispensable to ban the direct fishery
for herring for industrial purposes in order to allow for a regular supply
to the food processing and distribution industries ;
Whereas such a measure can be effective only if all industrial fishing
operations within Member States' fishing limits are prohibited to
fishermen whether they are nationals of Member States or of non-member
countries ;
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Whereas the quantities of herring caughty bh the direct fishery and intended
for industiral purposes outside waters under the sovereignty or the
jurisdiction of the Member States are now landed in the Community ; as
it is to be ensured that these quantities are reserved for human consumption
to the exclusion of the reduction industry which can be supplied by other
species ;
HAS ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING REGULATION :
 ---pagebreak---                               Article 1
- All direct herring fishing for industrial purposes shall he prohibited
  in waters under the sovereignty and the jurisdiction of the Member
  States .
                              Article 2
  All landings in the Community of herring caught by the direct fishery
  for herring and intended for industrial ends is forbidden , no matter
  what the origin .
                              Article 3
 This Regulation shall enter into force on
  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
  in all Member States .
 Done at Brussels ,                             For the Council ,
                                                 The President