CELEX: 51998PC0336
Language: en
Date: 1998-05-18
Title: Amended proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) prohibiting imports of Atlantic blue-fin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) originating in Belize, Honduras and Panama

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                          Brussels, 18.05.1998
                                          COM(1998) 336 final
                                          98/ 0033 (ACC)
                       Amended proposal for a
                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
Prohibiting imports of Atlantic blue-fin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
          Originating in Belize, Honduras and Panama
     (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 189 a (2)
                         of the EC-Treaty)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                          Explanatory Memorandum
At its annual meeting in 1996, the International Commission for the
Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) adopted a recommendation to
prohibit the import of Atlantic blue-fin tuna by its Contracting Parties, in any
form, from Panama, with effect from 1 January 1998.
Identical import restrictions for blue-fin tuna products have previously been
proposed by the Commission in relation to Honduras and Belize - written
procedure E/13 8/98.
The objective of this proposal is, therefore, to prohibit imports of Atlantic
blue-fin tuna from Belize, Honduras and Panama in one single piece of
legislation.
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 ---pagebreak---                             Amended proposal for a
                           Council Regulation (EC)
      Prohibiting imports of Atlantic blue-fin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
                 Originating in Belize, Honduras and Panama
The Commission has on 11 February 1998 forwarded to the Secretary-General
of the Council of the European Union a proposal on the above subject
(Commission       document COM(98) 48 final) following                 binding
recommendations from the International Commission for the Conservation of
Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT).
The Council had a preliminary discussion of the proposal in the 113 Committee
on 27 February 1998.
At the last annual meeting of ICCAT, it was confirmed that a recommendation
from 1996 to prohibit from 1 January 1998 the importation of Atlantic blue-fin
tuna, originating in Panama, be implemented. Therefore, the Commission finds
it expedient and appropriate to include Panamanian products in the above
proposal.
To that respect, the following modifications            to  the   proposal   in
COM(98) 48 final should be introduced :
• the title should read :
    "Council Regulation (EC) No               Prohibiting imports of Atlantic
    blue-fin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) originating in Belize, Honduras and
    Panama. "
 • 4th. "Whereas" read :
     "Whereas in 1995 ICC A T identified Belize, Honduras and Panama.... "
 • 6th. "Whereas" include :
     "Panama" in the second line.
 • Last part of Article 1 (l)should read :
     "     originating in Belize, Honduras and Panama is hereby prohibited."
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