CELEX: 31986D0640
Language: en
Date: 1986-12-22 00:00:00
Title: 86/640/EEC: Council Decision of 22 December 1986 authorizing the Portuguese Republic to extend, from 6 January 1987 to 5 January 1988, the fisheries cooperation agreement concluded with the Islamic Republic of Mauritania

31 . 12 . 86                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 376 / 111
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                                            (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                         COUNCIL
                                                      COUNCIL DECISION
                                                        of 22 December 1986
                  authorizing the Portuguese Republic to extend, from 6 January 1987 to 5 January 1988, the
                      fisheries cooperation agreement concluded with the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
                                                            ( 86 / 640 / EEC )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                 Whereas , pending the conclusion of a fisheries agreement
                                                                          between the European Economic Community and the
                                                                          Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, it is in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     the interest of the Community to authorize the Portuguese
Economic Community ,                                                      Republic to renew the said cooperation agreement for a
                                                                          further one year, in order to avoid fishing by the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                        Community vessels concerned being interrupted,
Portugal , and in particular Article 354 ( 3 ) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Whereas on 6 January 1984 the Government of the
Portuguese Republic signed a fisheries cooperation                                                 Article 1
agreement with the government of the Islamic Republic of
Mauritania covering a period of three years; whereas that                 The Portuguese Republic is authorized to extend, from
agreement is tacitly renewable for further periods of one                 6 January 1987 to 5 January 1988 , the fisheries
year ;                                                                    cooperation agreement concluded on 6 January 1984 with
                                                                          the Islamic Republic of Mauritania .
Whereas Article 354 (2 ) of the Act of Accession lays down
that the rights and obligations flowing, for the Portuguese
Republic, from fisheries agreements concluded with third                                           Article 2
countries shall not be affected during the period for which
the provisions of such agreements are provisionally                       This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic.
maintained ;
Whereas , under Article 354 ( 3 ) of the said Act, the Council            Done at Brussels, 22 December 1986 .
is to adopt, before the expiry of fisheries agreements
concluded by Portugal with third countries , the decisions                                                     For the Council
appropriate for the continuation of fishing activities                                                          The President
resulting therefrom , including the possibility of prolonging
them ;                                                                                                            G  SHAW