CELEX: 51979PC0132
Language: en
Date: 1979-03-12
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) allocating catch quotas between Member States for vessels fishing in Faroese waters (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                              COM(79)132 final.
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                                Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
    allocating catch quotas between Member States for vessels fishing
                               in Faroese waters
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
  COM ( 79 ) 132 final .
 ---pagebreak---              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 The consultations which have taken place between the European
Economic Community on the one hand and the Government of
 Denmark and the Home Government of the Paroese Islands on the
 other hand , according to the rules set out in the fisheries
 agreement signed between the two parties , have resulted in -
 agreement between the two delegations about the fishing rights
 for the year 1979 for each party in the waters of the other .
 The proposed regulation is intended to divide the negotiated
 Community quotas in Paroese waters between the interested
Member States , and to ensure adequate control of Community
fishing by introducing an obligation on Community vessels to
report their catches in Paroese waters to the Commission on a .
monthly basis .
 ---pagebreak---                            PROPOSAL
              COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
           allocating catch quotas between member States
                 for vessels fishing in Faroe se waters
    THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
  and in particular Article 43 thereof ,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament ( l ),
 Whereas on 3 November 1976 the Council adopted a set of resolutions
 concerning certain external and internal aspects of the common fisheries
 policy ;
            '          ·
 Whereas the . Community on the one hand and the Government of Denmark and
                         '  1
 the Home Government o£ the Faroese Islands on the other hand , have
 signed a Framework Agreement on fisheries ;
 Whereas the Community and Faroese Islands have held consultations concerning
their 1 mutual fishing allocations for 1979 ;
 Whereas during the consultations the delegations agreed to recommend to
 their authorities that they fix certain catch quotas for 1979 for
 vessels of the other party ;
 Whereas it is the responsibility of the Community to allocate the catch
 quotas in the Faroese fishery zone among its own fishermen ;
 Whereas in order to ensure an equitable allocation of available fishing
 possibilities between the fishermen of the Community these quotas should
 be allocated between the member " States of the Community ;
 Whereas information about actual catches should.be made available in order
 to ensure that the allocations are respected ,
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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                     Article 1
      Prom 1 January to 31 December 1979 vessels flying the flag of a
member State shall be authorized to make only the catches set out in
the Annex hereto in waters falling within the fisheries jurisdiction
of   Faroese Islands .
                     Article 2
      Member States shall    send monthly        to the Commission
information concerning the catches broken down by species , made by
vessels flying their flag fishing in Faroese waters.
                     Article 3
      This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply until 31 December 1979 *                            x
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all member States.
Done at Brussels .
                                        For the Council
                                        The President
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Quantities referred to in Article 1
                                    ( tonnes )