CELEX: 51996PC0162
Language: en
Date: 1996-04-17
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) laying down for 1996 certain conservation and management measures for fishery resources in the Convention Area as defined in the Convention on Future Multilateral Co-operation in the North-East Atlantic

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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                                                   Brussels, 17.04.1996
                                                   COM(96) 162 final
                                 Proposal for a
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   laying down for 1996 certain conservation and management measures for fishery
resources in the Convention Area as defined in the Convention on Future Multilateral
                      Co-operation in the North-East Atlantic
                        (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
During many years, the question of the regulation of oceanic-type redfish formed the subject
matter of protracted discussions within the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission
(NEAFC). At an Extraordinary Meeting from 19 to 21 March 1996, NEAFC was now able
to adopt a recommendation of conservation and management measures for thai fish stock for
 1996. That recommendation was adopted by a qualified majority of the Contracting Parties
of NEAFC, including the Community.
The recommended measures consist in a total allowable catch (TAC) of 153,000 tonnes which
covers oceanic-type redfish in its entire area of distribution and which is allocated among the
Contracting Parties concerned. Within this TAC, a share of 23,000 tonnes has become
available to the Community. Furthermore, Denmark (on behalf of the Faroe Islands and
Greenland) committed itself to transfer to the Community a further 4,000 tonnes. This results
in a total 27,000 tonnes of oceanic-type redfish available to the Community in 1996.
As this recommendation has been adopted with the full support of the Community, the
Commission now proposes its full implementing at Community level.
In order to enhance the impact of the measures recommended by NEAFC and to ensure that
Community fishing vessels can carry out their operations in economically appropriate
conditions, it is also proposed to share out the Community share of oceanic-type redfish
between the Member States concerned in application of the traditional "relative stability"
criteria with an appropriate reference period of five years which reflects duly the twofold
reality of the past catch records and the current fishing patterns.
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 ---pagebreak---                                            Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No                  /96
                                           of       1996
       laying down for 1996 certain conservation and management measures for fishery
    resources in the Convention Area as defined in the Convention on Future Multilateral
                              Co-operation in the North-East Atlantic
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 estbalishing
a Community system for fisheries and aquaculture (,), and in particular Article 8 (4) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the Community has signed the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,
which contains principles and rules relating to the conservation and management of the living
resources within the exclusive economic zones of the coastal States and on the high seas;
Whereas the Convention on Multilateral Co-operation in the North-East Atlantic, hereafter
referred to as the "NEAFC Convention", was approved by the Council in Decision
81/608/EEC of 13 July 1981 (2) and entered into force on 17 March 1982;
Whereas the NEAFC Convention establishes a suitable framework for multilateral co-
operation in the rational conservation and the optimum utilization of the fishery resources of
the Convention Area as defined therein;
Whereas the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission adopted on 21 March 1996 a
recommendation limiting the catches of redfish in the Convention Area for 1996; whereas it
is appropriate that this recommendation be implemented by the Community;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No. 3760/92, it falls to the
Council to establish for each fishery or group of fisheries the total allowable catch (TAC) and
the share available to the Community and to allocate the share available to the Community
among the Member States;
(1)
          O.J. No. L 389, 31.12.1992, p. 1
<2>       O.J. No. L 227, 12.8.1981, p. 21
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas the fishing activities covered by this Regulation are subject to the control measures
provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2847/93 establishing a control system
applicable to the common fisheries policy (3);
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                          Article 1
Catches in 1996 of redfish by Community fishing vessels shall be limited to the quotas set
out in the Annex.
All catches by Community fishing vessels of redfish prior to the adoption of this Regulation
shall be counted against the quotas set out in the Annex.
                                          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 entirely and directly applicable in all Member
        States.
        Done at Brussels,           1996
                                                                               For the Council
                                                                                 The President
 (3)
         O.J. No. L261, 20.10.1993, p. 1
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 ---pagebreak---                                                      ANNEX
                           Stock                                Member State                   1996 quota
            Species              Geographical area
    Redfish                      ICES XIV/XII/V (2)         Austria
    (Sebastes mentella,                                     Belgium
    oceanic-type) (l)                                       Denmark
                                                            Finland
                                                            Germany                                       21,422
                                                            Greece
                                                            France                                            853
                                                            Ireland
                                                            Italy
                                                            Luxembourg
                                                            the Netherlands                                     5
                                                            Portugal                                        2,846
                                                            Spain                                           1,874
                                                            Sweden
                                                            the United Kingdom
                                                            EC total                                    27,000 (3)
(,)
           Fished with pelagic trawls, excluding discards but including the fish above as well as below the acoustic
           layer
(2)
           Community fishing waters and areas beyond fisheries jurisdiction of the other coastal States
(3)
           Includes a transfer of 4,000 tonnes from Denmark (on behalf of the Faroe Islands and Greenland)
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