CELEX: 32005R2157
Language: en
Date: 2005-12-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2157/2005 of  23 December 2005  setting out the licence fees applicable in 2006 to Community vessels fishing in Greenland waters

24.12.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 342/59
            
         
      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2157/2005
   of 23 December 2005
   setting out the licence fees applicable in 2006 to Community vessels fishing in Greenland waters
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1245/2004 of 28 June 2004 on the conclusion of the Protocol modifying the fourth Protocol laying down the conditions relating to fishing provided for in the Agreement on fisheries between the European Economic Community, on the one hand, and the Government of Denmark and the local Government of Greenland, on the other (1), and in particular the second paragraph of Article 4 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Commission Regulation (EC) No 1245/2004 provides that owners of Community vessels who receive a licence for a Community vessel authorised to fish in waters in the exclusive economic zone of Greenland are to pay a licence fee in accordance with Article 11(5) of the fourth Protocol.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Commission Regulation (EC) No 2140/2004 of 15 December 2004 laying down detailed rules for the application of Regulation No 1245/2004 as regards applications for fisheries licences in waters in the exclusive economic zone of Greenland (2) implements an Administrative Arrangement on fisheries licences as set out in Article 11(5) of the fourth Protocol.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Part B.4 of the Administrative Agreement specifies that license fees for 2006 are to be fixed by an annex to that Arrangement and based on 3 % of the price per tonne per species.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               It is appropriate to set out in this Regulation licence fees for 2006, which were agreed by the Community and Greenland on 12 December 2005 in an annex to the Administrative Arrangement.
            
         
               (5)
            
            
               The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on fisheries and aquaculture,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   Article 1
   The licence fees for 2006 for Community vessels authorised to fish in waters in the exclusive economic zone of Greenland shall be as set out in the Annex to the Administrative Agreement referred to in Regulation (EC) No 2140/2004.
   The text of the Annex to the Administrative Agreement is attached to this Regulation.
   Article 2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
   It shall apply from 1 January 2006.
   
      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
      Done at Brussels, 23 December 2005.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Joe BORG
         
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 237, 8.7.2004, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ L 369, 16.12.2004, p. 49.
   
      ANNEX
      The licence fees for 2006 are as follows:
      
                  Species
               
               
                  EUR per tonne
               
            
                  Redfish
               
               
                  42
               
            
                  Greenland Halibut
               
               
                  77
               
            
                  Shrimp
               
               
                  64
               
            
                  Atlantic Halibut
               
               
                  85
               
            
                  Capelin
               
               
                  3
               
            
                  Roundnose Grenadier
               
               
                  19
               
            
                  Snowcrab
               
               
                  122