CELEX: 51987PC0045
Language: en
Date: 1987-02-04
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION CONCERNING THE CONCLUSION OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA ON FISHING OFF THE GAMBIA AND ADOPTING PROVISIONS FOR ITS APPLICATION

No C 42/10                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                   20.2.87
                                                               II
                                                       (Preparatory Acts)
                                                 COMMISSION
             Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) concerning the conclusion of the Agreement between
             the European Economic Community and the Government of the Republic of the Gambia on
                             fishing off the Gambia and adopting provisions for its application
                                                      COM(87) 4 5 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 9 February 1987)
                                                         (87/C 42/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Gambia on fishing off the Gambia is hereby approved on
                                                                   behalf of the Community.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community and in particular Article 43                    The text of the Agreement is annexed to this Regulation.
thereof,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                                                Article 2
Portugal, and in particular Article 155 (2) (b),
                                                                   To take into consideration the interests of the Canary
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 Islands, this Agreement and, to the extent required for
                                                                   its implementation, the provisions of the common
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                  fisheries policy on the conservation and management of
liament,                                                           fishery resources shall also apply to vessels sailing under
                                                                   the flag of Spain which are recorded on a permanent
Whereas the Community and the Gambia have
                                                                   basis in the registers of the competent authorities at local
negotiated and initialled an agreement on fishing off the
                                                                   level (registros de base) in the Canary Islands as such
Gambia, which provides for new fishing possibilities for
                                                                   recording is defined in Note 6 of Annex I to Council
the Community's fishermen in the waters over which the
                                                                   Regulation (EEC) No 570/86 of 24 February 1986
Republic of the Gambia has sovereignty or jurisdiction;
                                                                   concerning the definition of the concept of 'originating
Whereas, under Article 155 (2) (b) of the Act of                   products' and methods of administrative cooperation in
Accession, the Council is required to determine the pro-           the trade between the customs territory of the
cedures appropriate to take into consideration all or part         Community, Ceuta and Melilla and the Canary
of the interests of the Canary Islands when it adopts              Islands (')•
decisions, case by case, with a view to the conclusion of
fisheries agreements with third countries; whereas the                                           Article 3
said procedures need to be determined in this particular
case;                                                              The President of the Council shall give the notification
                                                                   provided for in Article 17 of the Agreement.
Whereas it is in the Community's interest to approve this
Agreement,                                                                                        Article 4
                                                                   This regulation shall enter into force on the third day
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                   following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                   European Communities.
                         Article 1
The Agreement between the European Economic                        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
Community and the Government of the Republic of the                directly applicable in all Member States.
                                                                   (') O J N o L 5 6 , 1. 3. 1986, p. 1.