CELEX: 51998PC0532
Language: en
Date: 1998-09-18
Title: Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Council Regulation (EC) No.50/98 allocating, for 1998, Community catch quotas in Greenland waters

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                        Brussels, 18.09.1998
                                        COM(1998) 532 final
                         Proposal for a
               COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
amending Council Regulation (EC) No. 50/98 allocating, for 1998,
        Community catch quotas in Greenland waters
                (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Pursuant to Article 1 paragraph 2 of the Third Protocol (1), the Community is entitled to
"70% of the Greenland share of the capelin TAC minus 10,000 tonnes to the Faroe
Islands". This provision has to be seen against the background that the capelin stock in
the waters off Eastern Greenland is managed jointly by Greenland, Iceland, and Norway.
This year's tripartite consultations have led to an agreement, by way of which the
relevant TAC was set at 1,420,000 tonnes for 1998. Under the Third Protocol, the
ensuing Community catch quota in Greenland waters will be 109,340 tonnes.
Council Regulation (EC) No. 50/98(2) established the corresponding Community catch
quota at 97,405 tonnes on the basis of a TAC of 1,265,000.
The objective of this proposal is to implement the measures resulting from the variation of
the underlying TAC.
  (1)
      OJ No. L 351, 31.12.1994, p. 1
  (2)
      OJ No. L I 2, 19.01.1998, p. 72
 ---pagebreak---                                            t Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) Nô......../98
                                           of.... 1998
            amending Council Regulation (EC) No. 50/98 allocating, for 1998,
                         Community catch quotas in Greenland waters
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation.(EEC) No. 3760/92 of 20 December 1992 establishing a
Community system for fisheries and aquaculture(1), as amended by the Act of Accession of
Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in particular Article 8(4) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No. 50/98(2) established, for 1998, the Community catch
quota for capelin in Greenland waters on the basis of the TAC for 1997/98;
Whereas a revision of the relevant TAC in the meantime has resulted in a change in the share
available to the Community;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No. 50/98 has to be amended accordingly;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
                                            Article 1
In the Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No. 50/98, the entry referring to capelin shall be
amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
                                            Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official
Journal of the European Communities.
     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
     States.
     Done at Brussels,.... 1998.
                                                                  For the Council
                                                                   The President
(1)
    OJ No. L 389, 31.12.1992, p. 1.
(2)
    OJNo.L 12, 19.01.1998, p. 72
 ---pagebreak---                                                               ANNEX
                      Allocation of Community catch quotas in Greenland waters for 1998
 Species       Geographical        Community catch            Quotas allocated to          Quantities       Quantities      Faroese
                    area                 quotas                 Member, States -          allocated to - < allocated to   quotas under
                                       (in tonnes)                                          Norway            Iceland         EC/
                                                                                                                           Greenland
Capelin       ÎCES XIV/V                      109,340"»   Community           53,340         16,000                30 000      10 000
        <f,)
             70% of the Greenland share of the TAC for capelin minus 10 000 tonnes to the Faroe Islands. Upon any further
             revision of the relevant TAC in the course of 1998, the Community quota shall be revised accordingly.
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                                                           COM(98) 532 final
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