CELEX: 31985R3724
Language: en
Date: 1985-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3724/85 of 20 December 1985 fixing the flat-rate amounts of hake, horse mackerel and blue whiting allocated to Spain for 1986

31 . 12 . 85                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 361 / 45
                                         COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 3724 / 85
                                                      of 20 December 1985
               fixing the flat-rate amounts of hake, horse mackerel and blue whiting allocated to Spain for
                                                                1986
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                                Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Spain and
Portugal , and in particular Article 161 thereof,
                                                                     The zones in which the flat-rate quantities of hake , horse
                                                                     mackerel and blue whiting allocated to Spain for 1986 may
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                  be fished shall be as set out in the Annex .
Whereas under Article 161 of the Act of Accession flat-rate          Where the overall level of the share of hake available to the
amounts of horse mackerel and blue whiting are allocated             Community in ICES sub-areas and divisions V b ( EC
to Spain together with , for a three-year period , a                 zone), VI , VIII and VIII a , b , d exceeds 45 000 tonnes but
supplementary quantity of hake which may not exceed                  is less than 60 000 tonnes , the flat-rate quantity shall be
4 500 tonnes and whose size is determined annually on the            reduced so that the total quantity allocated to Spain does
basis of the state of the stocks concerned ;                         not exceed 18 000 tonnes . Where the quantity of 60 000
                                                                     tonnes is exceeded , only an overall quota amounting to
                                                                     30 % of the share available to the Community shall be
Whereas these amounts must be distributed among ICES                 allocated to Spain .
sub-areas and divisions V b ( EC zone ) VI , VII and VIII a , b
 and d;
                                                                                                Article 2
Whereas under Article 158 of the Act of Accession a
 distinction must be made between fishing for demersal               Blue whiting and horse mackerel shall , for the purposes of
 species and fishing for species other than demersal and             the fishing activities referred to in this Regulation , be
 whereas the group to which blue whiting and horse                   considered to be species other than demersal .
 mackerel belong must therefore be defined ;
                                                                                                Article 3
 Whereas , pursuant to Article 2 ( 3 ) of the Treaty of
 Accession of Spain and Portugal , the institutions of the           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1986 ,
 Communities may adopt , before accession , the measures             subject to the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of
 referred to in Article 161 of the Act of Accession ,                Spain and Portugal .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels , 20 December 1985 .
                                                                                          For the Council
                                                                                           The Président
                                                                                           R. STEICHEN
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                                                                    ANNEX
                                                    Allocation of the flat-rate quantities
                       Species                                     ICES zone
                                                                                                   j     Flat-rate( tonnes
                                                                                                                       quantities
                                                                                                                           )
                                                                                                                     3 000
         Hake                               V b ( EC zone ), VI , VII H , VIII a , b , d                             1 500
                                                                                                               10 000
        Horse mackerel                      V b ( EC zone), VI , VII (»), VIII a , b , d
                                                                                                               21 000
                                                                                                               10 000
        Blue whiting                        V b ( EC zone ), VI , VII 0 ), VIII a , b , d
                                                                                                              20 000
        ( } ) Fishing is prohibited in the area south of latitude 56°30 ' N , east of longitude 12°00 ' W and north of latitude
              50°30 ' N.