CELEX: 51996PC0671
Language: en
Date: 1996-12-12
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) allocating, for 1997, certain catch quotas between Member States for vessels fishing in Faroese waters

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                           Brussels, 12.12.1996
                                           COM(96)671 final
                            Proposal for a
                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
allocating, for 1997, certain catch quotas between Member States
                for vessels fishing in Faroese waters
                   (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The consultations between the Community and the Faroe Islands, held in Brussels on
22 October 1996, resulted in an agreement on reciprocal fisheries arrangements for 1997.
These arrangements imply, iner alia, certain catch quota for Community vessels in Faroese
waters.
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 Faroese zone under the above
mentioned arrangements.
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 ---pagebreak---                                          Proposal for a
                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No                   /96
                                    of .... December 1996
             allocating, for 1997, certain catch quotas between Member States
                             for vessels fishing in Faroese 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, in accordance with the procedure provided for in the Agreement on fisheries
between the European Economic Community, of the one part, and the Government of
Denmark and the Home Government of the Faroe Islands, of the other part, the two parties
have held consultations on their mutual fishing rights for 1997;
Whereas, as a result of these consultations, the two Parties have agreed on an arrangement
for 1997 whereby certain catch quotas are allocated to Community vessels in the Faroese
fishing zone;
Whereas, to ensure efficient management of the catch possibilities available, they should be
allocated among Member States as quotas in accordance with Article 8 of 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(2);
(i)
        OJ No L389, 31.12.1992, p. 1.
(2)
        OJ No L261, 20.10.1993, p. 1.
                                                3
 ---pagebreak--- 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(3), were not agreed with the Faroe Islands,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                          Article 1
From 1 January to 31 December 1997 catches taken by vessels flying the flag of a Member
State in the waters falling within the fisheries jurisdiction of the Faroe Islands, under the
arrangement on reciprocal fishing rights for 1997 between the Community and the Faroe
Islands, shall not exceed the quotas set out in the Annex hereto.
                                           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
         OJ NO L 115, 9.5.1996, p.3
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 ---pagebreak---                                                 ANNEX
            Allocation of Community catch quotas in Faroese waters for 1997,
                                      as referred to in Article 1
                              (in metric tonnes, fresh round weight)
       Species          ICES Division         Community            Quotas allocated to Member
                                             catch quotas                        States
    Cod, haddock             Vb 1                  500            France                             60
                                                                  Germany                            10
                                                                  United Kingdom                    430
        Saithe                Vb                  2,500           Belgium                            50
                                                                  France                          1,510
                                                                  Germany                           310
                                                                  Netherlands                        50
                                                                  United Kingdom                    580
       Redfish                Vb                  7,000           Belgium                            50
                                                                  France                            435
                                                                  Germany                         6,440
                                                                  United Kingdom                     75
    Blue ling, ling           Vb                 3,600(1)         France                        ' 2,340
                                                                  Germany                         1,055
                                                                  United Kingdom                    205
     Blue whiting             Vb                 25,000           Denmark                        11,000
                                                                  France           ^
                                                                  Germany           I             3,000
                                                                  Netherlands J
                                                                  United Kingdom                11,000
       Flatfish               Vb                 1,000(2)         France                            140
                                                                  Germany                           180
                                                                  United Kingdom                    680
      Mackerel                Vb                  3,270           Denmark                         3,270
    Other species             Vb                   760            France                            275
                                                                  Germany                           305
                                                                  United Kingdom                    180
'"       By-catches of roundnose grenadier and black scabbard to be counted against this quota.
(2)
         Including Greenland halibut.
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