CELEX: 51996PC0658
Language: en
Date: 1996-12-12
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) allocating for 1997 catch quotas between Member States for vessels fishing in Icelandie waters

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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                                            Brussels, 12.12.1996
                                            COM(96)658 final
                             Proposal for a
                   COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
      allocating for 1997 catch quotas between Member States
                for vessels fishing in Icelandic waters
                    (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Consultations between the Community and Iceland, held in Brussels on 18 October 1996, have
resulted in an agreement defining a reciprocal fisheries arrangement for 1997. This
arrangement provides for, inter alia, certain catch quotas for Community vessels in the
Icelandic fishing zone.
The arrangement also maintains an amendment to the fishing area; the South-Eastern area has
been expanded by approximately 1,000 square miles.
The purpose of this proposal for a regulation is to allocate among Member States the quotas
available in 1997 to Community vessels fishing in the Icelandic zone under the above
mentioned arrangement.
                                             2.
 ---pagebreak---                                                   Proposal for a
                             COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No                   /96
                                             of .... December 1996
                    allocating for 1997 catch quotas between Member States
                                  for vessels fishing in Icelandic 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 aquaculture0\ 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, in accordance with the procedure provided for in the Agreement on Fisheries
Relations between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Iceland(2), and in
particular Article 4 thereof, the Community and Iceland have held consultations concerning
their mutual fishing rights for 1997 and the management of common living resources;
Whereas, in the course of these consultations, the delegations agreed to recommend to their
respective authorities that certain catch quotas for 1997 should be fixed for the vessels of the
other Party;
Whereas, in the course of these consultations, the delegations agreed to maintain the adjusted
fishing area designated to Community vessels in Icelandic waters;
Whereas the necessary measures should be taken to implement, for 1997, the results of the
consultations held between the delegations of the Community and Iceland;
Whereas to ensure efficient management of the catch possibilities available in Icelandic waters,
they should be allocated among the Member States as quotas in accordance with Article 8 of
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92;
 Whereas the fishing activities covered by this Regulation are subject to the relevant control
 measures provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993
 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy(3);
 Whereas additional conditions for the year-to-year management of TACs and quotas, in
 accordance with the provisions laid down in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC)
 No 847/96(4), were not agreed with Iceland,
 (i)     O J N o L 389, 31.12.1992, p. 1.
 (2)
         O J N o L 161, 2.7.1993, p. 1.
 (3)
         O J N o L 2 6 1 , 20.10.1993, p. 1.
 (4)
         O J N o L 115, 9.5.1996, p. 3.
                                                         3
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                            Article 1
From 1 January to 31 December 1997 vessels flying the flag of a Member State are hereby
authorised to make catches within the quota limits set out in the Annex in waters falling within
the fisheries jurisdiction of Iceland.
The catch quotas shall be fished in areas of the Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone defined
by straight lines connecting the following coordinates:
        South Western Area
 1.     63°12 , Nand23°05'W            through 62°00'N and 26°00'W
2.      62°58'N and 22°25'W
3.      63°06 , Nand21°30'W
4.      63°03 , Nand21°00'W            from there 180°00'S
        South Eastern Area
 1.     63°14'Nand      10°40'W
 2.     63°14'Nand      11'23'W
 3.     63°35'N and     12°21'W
 4.     64°00'N and     12°30'W
 5.     63°53'N and     13°30'W
 6.     63°36'N and     14°30'W
 7.     63°10'N and     17°00'W         from there 180°00'S
                                            Article 2
 Stocks referred to in the Annex shall not be subject to the conditions stipulated in Articles 2,
 3 and 5 (2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96.
                                             Article 3
 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1997.
         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, .... December 1996.
                                                               For the Council
                                                               The President
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 ---pagebreak---                                              ANNEX
         Allocation of Community catch quotas in Icelandic waters for 1997
                            (in metric tonnes, fresh round weight)
                         ICES                Community              Quotas allocated
    Species
                        division             catch quotas          to Member States
    Redfish                Va                    3,000(1)    Germany                 1,690
                                                             United Kingdom          1,160
                                                             Belgium                   100
                                                             France                     50
(1)   Including unavoidable by-catches (cod not allowed).
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