CELEX: 51997PC0212
Language: en
Date: 1997-05-13
Title: Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EC) No 393/97 laying down, for 1997, certain measures for the conservation and management of fishery resources applicable to vessels flying the flag of the Faroe Islands

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                   Brussels, 13.05.1997
                                                   COM(97) 212 final
                                   Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EO
 amending Regulation (EC) No 393/97 laying down, for 1997, certain measures for the
conservation and management offisheryresources applicable to vessels flying the flag of
                                 the Faroe Islands
                          (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The relevant coastal States, i.e. the Community, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and
the Russian Federation, held consultations which, on 14 December 1996, led to an
arrangement on the management and sharing of Norwegian spring spawning herring
(Atlanto-Scandian herring) in 1997. Under this arrangement, a total of 130,000 tonnes
became available to the Community and a quota of 82,000 tonnes became available to the
Faroe Islands.
In connection with this arrangement, a subsequent arrangement on reciprocal access has
been agreed upon, under which the Community was given access to fish a maximum of
 12,500 tonnes of its share in Faroese waters and the Faroe Islands were given access to
fish a maximum of 12,500 tonnes in Community fishing waters.
Further consultations between the Community and the Faroe Islands led, on 10 March
 1997, to specifying the licensing conditions pertaining to this access arrangement.
This proposal intends to address the issue of access of Faroese vessels to Community
fishing waters by modifying Council Regulation (EC) No 393/97.
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 ---pagebreak---                                         Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No                 /97
                                      of            1997
  amending Regulation (EC) No 393/97 laying down, for 1997, certain measures for the
 conservation and management of fishery resources applicable to vessels flying the flag of
                                      the Faroe Islands
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 , 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 393/97 lays down, for 1997, certain measures for
the conservation and management of fishery resources applicable to vessels flying the
flag of the Faroe Islands;
Whereas the Community, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and the Russian Federation
held consultations which led, on 14 December 1996 to recommending to the respective
authorities an arrangement on the management and sharing of Norwegian spring-
spawning herring (Atlanto-Scandian herring) in 1997;
Whereas pursuant to this arrangement, a subsequent arrangement on reciprocal access
was agreed upon by the Community and the Faroe Islands, under which the Faroe Islands
may fish 12,500 tonnes of their share in Community fishing waters north of 62° N;
Whereas the Community and the Faroe Islands held further consultations pertaining to
the conduct of this fishery and, in particular, the licensing conditions;
Whereas it is now necessary to implement these arrangements in as much as access of
vessels flying the flag of the Faroe Islands to Community fishing waters is concerned and
to amend Council Regulation (EC) No 393/97 accordingly,
      OJ No 1.38*), 3I.I2.IW2, p.I
      OJ No L 66, 6.3.1997, p. 61
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 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                         Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 393/97 is hereby amended as follows:
1.    The following sub-paragraph shall be inserted after Article 3, paragraph 2, sub-
      paragraph (f):
      "(g) 21 for the fishing of herring in ICES division Ha, (north of 62° N). Requests
      for replacement of licences and special fishing permits within this maximum
      number may be made at any time and shall be processed expeditiously".
2.    The table which is given in the Annex to this Regulation shall be added to Annex I,
      point 1.
                                         Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the
Officiai Journal of the European Communities.
      This Regulations shall be binding in its entirely and directly applicable in all
      Member States.
      Done at Brussels,          1997
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                            The President
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 ---pagebreak---            ANNEX
Faroese catch quotas for 1997
     Pishing a&ae: ICES       Quantity
      subarea/divtskm         (tonnes)
              Ha               12,500
                 5"
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