CELEX: 51992PC0150
Language: en
Date: 1992-04-21
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION amending Decision 89/631/EEC on a Community financial contribution towards expenditure incurred by Member States for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the Community system for the conservation and management of fishery resources

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                                             COM(92)150  final
                                             Brussels, 21 ApriI 1992
                                  Proposal for a
                                 COUNCIL DECISION
              amending Decision 89/631/EEC on a Community financial
           contribution towards expenditure incurred by Member States
            for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the Community
         system for the conservation and management of fishery resources
                           (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---                                                     EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
         Following the presentation of a proposal from the Commission^), the Council
         adopted a Decision (89/631/EEC) on 27 November 1989(2) making provision for
         a Community           financial contribution towards expenditure incurred by Member
          States in the enforcement of the conservation rules of the Common Fisheries
          Policy.
          Under the said Decision, the Community may contribute up to 22 million Ecu
          per annum over an initial period of five years                          (1991 - 1995).     However,
          Article 1(1)          of   the   Decision         stipulates   that,   pending  the   adoption   of
          Community         rules for the conservation              and management of fishery       resources
          applicable in Mediterranean waters, the Community, as far as Member States of
          the       Mediterranean       basin        are    concerned,   is   empowered   to   make   such   a
           contribution on a provisional basis until 31 December 1991.
           The budgetary commitments made following the adoption of Council Decision
           89/631/EEC made provision for the payment by the Community of up to fifty
           percent of the total costs of all Member States engaged in the conservation
           of fishery resources.
           Subsequent         to   the   Council         Decision,   a  number   of  Member  States    of  the
           Mediterranean         basin    have       submitted    national   multiannual   programmes    which
           contribute         to   the   implementation          of  the   fishery   resources   conservation
           arrangements applicable in Mediterranean waters.                     These programmes have been
           examined, approved and partially funded by the Community for 1991< 3 ).
           The purpose of this proposed Council Decision is to permit the continuation
           of a Community financial contribution towards the expenditure borne by Member
           States        of  the    Mediterranean          basin  who  submit    investment  plans    for  the
           conservation of fishery resources in subsequent years.
           (1) COM(88) 703 f i n a l .
           (2) O.J. No L 364 o f 1 4 . 1 2 . 8 9 , p . 6 4 .
           (3) O.J. No L           9 of 1 2 . 0 1 . 9 1 , p. 34.
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 ---pagebreak---                                     Proposal for a Council Decision
                        amending Decision 89/631/EEC on a Community financial
                    contribution towards expenditure incurred by Member States
                     for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the Community
                  system for the conservation and management of fishery resources
         THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
         Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and
          in particular Article 43 thereof.
         Having regard to the proposal from the Commission^),
         Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(2),
         Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee(-*),
         Whereas    on   27 November 1989   the   Council   adopted   Decision  89/631/EEC(4)
         providing, on a provisional basis until 31 December 1991, for a Community
          financial contribution towards expenditure incurred by Member States of the
         Mediterranean     basin  in  the  furtherance   of the   applicable   rules  for the
         conservation and management of fishery resources, pending the adoption of
         Community rules applicable in Mediterranean waters;
         Whereas    Community   rules  for   the conservation    and  management   of  fishery
         resources applicable to Mediterranean waters have not yet been adopted and it
         is essential to allow the continuation of a Community financial contribution
         towards expenditure      incurred  by those Member    States of the Mediterranean
         Basin   pending    the  adoption  of  Community   rules  for   the conservation   and
         management of fishery resources applicable in that area;
          (1)
          (2)
          (3)
          (4) O.J. No L 364 of 14.12.89, p. 64.
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         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
                                               Article 1
          The second subparagraph of Article       1(1) of Decision 89/631/EEC is hereby
          replaced by the following :
                  "Pending  the  adoption of  Community  rules   for the  conservation  and
                  management of fishery resources applicable in Mediterranean waters, the
                  Community shall contribute under the same conditions as those set out in
                  this Decision to the financing of the expenditure incurred by the Member
                  States concerned to ensure compliance with the applicable rules.   Member
                  States which wish to benefit from this contribution shall notify such
                  rules to the Commission and justify their merits."
                                                Article 2
           This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
           Done at Brussels,               1992.
                                                               For the Council
                                                               The President
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