CELEX: 31977R1673
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-25 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1673/77 of 25 July 1977 amending Regulation (EEC) No 350/77 as regards the prohibition of fishing for Norwegian pout

No L 186/ 30                          Official Journal of the European Communities                            26. 7. 77
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1673/77
                                                      of 25 July 1977
              amending Regulation ( EEC) No 350/77 as regards the prohibition of fishing for
                                                     Norwegian pout
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                   Article 1
Economic Community,
                                                                 Fishing for Norwegian pout shall be forbidden from 1
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     September to 15 October 1977 in that part of the
350/77 of 18 February 1977 laying down certain                   North Sea bounded by a line joining the following
interim measures for the conservation and manage­                points :
ment of fishing resources ( !), as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1417/77 (2), and in particular Article          — east coast of the United Kingdom at 56° 00' lati­
5 (2) thereof,                                                       tude North,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,              —    56° 00 latitude North — 00° 00' longitude,
                                                                —    60° 00' latitude North — 00° 00' longitude,
Whereas, during fishing for Norwegian pout for indus­
trial purposes, a high proportion of immature fish of           —    60° 00 latitude North — 04° 00' longitude West,
demersal species are caught as by-catches ;                     —    coast of the United Kingdom at 04°00' longitude
                                                                     West.
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 350/77 provides, in
Article 5 (2), for the adoption of measures on fishing
for Norwegian pout ; whereas in implementation of                                       Article 2
that Regulation fishing for Norwegian pout should, on
the basis of the available scientific estimates, be              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
forbidden from 1 September to 15 October 1977,                   following its publication in the Official Journal of
pending a re-examination of the situation,                       the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 25 July 1977.
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                               The President
                                                                               H. SIMONET
(>) OJ No L 48, 19 . 2. 1977, p. 28 .
(2) OJ No L 160, 30 . 6 . 1977, p. 20 .