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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 43(3) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002(1) requires that measures governing access to waters and resources and the sustainable pursuit of fishing activities be established taking into account the scientific, technical and economic advice available and, in particular, the report drawn up by the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) as well as in the light of any advice received from regional advisory councils.
(2) It is incumbent upon the Council to adopt measures on the fixing and allocation of fishing opportunities by fishery or group of fisheries, including certain conditions functionally linked thereto, as appropriate. Fishing opportunities should be distributed among Member States in such a way as to assure each Member State relative stability of fishing activities for each stock or fishery with due regard to the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy established in Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002.
(3) The total allowable catches (TACs) should be established on the basis of the scientific advice available, taking into account biological and socioeconomic aspects whilst ensuring fair treatment between fishing sectors, as well as in the light of opinions expressed during the consultation of stakeholders, in particular at meetings with the regional advisory councils concerned.
(4) For stocks subject to specific multiannual plans, the fishing opportunities should be established in accordance with the rules laid down in those plans. Consequently, catch limits and fishing effort limits for the cod stocks in the Baltic Sea should be established in accordance with the rules laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007(2) (‘the Baltic Sea Cod Plan’).
(5) In the light of the scientific advice, flexibility in the management of the fishing effort for cod stocks in the Baltic Sea can be introduced without jeopardising the objectives of the Baltic Sea Cod Plan and without causing an increase in fishing mortality. Such flexibility would allow for more efficient management of the fishing effort where quotas are not allocated equally among the fleet of a Member State and would facilitate swift reactions to quota exchanges. A Member State should, therefore, be allowed to allocate to vessels flying its flag additional days absent from port where an equal amount of days absent from port is withdrawn from other vessels flying its flag.
(6) The use of fishing opportunities as set out in this Regulation should be subject to Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009(3), and in particular provisions concerning the recording of catches and fishing effort and the information on data on the exhaustion of fishing opportunities. It is therefore necessary to specify the codes relating to landings of stocks subject to this Regulation which are to be used by the Member States when sending data to the Commission.
(7) In accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96(4), the stocks that are subject to the various measures referred to therein must be identified.
(8) In order to avoid interruption of fishing activities and to ensure the livelihood of Union fishermen, it is important to open the fisheries covered by this Regulation as from 1 January 2014. For reasons of urgency, this Regulation should enter into force immediately after its publication,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
This Regulation fixes the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks in the Baltic Sea for 2014.
This Regulation applies to Union vessels operating in the Baltic Sea.
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions apply:
‘International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) zones’ means the geographical areas specified in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005(5);
‘Baltic Sea’ means ICES Subdivisions 22-32;
‘Union vessel’ means a fishing vessel flying the flag of a Member State and registered in the Union;
‘total allowable catch’ (TAC) means the quantity that can be taken from each stock each year;
‘quota’ means a proportion of the TAC allocated to the Union, a Member State or a third country;
‘day absent from port’ means any continuous period of 24 hours or part thereof during which a vessel is not present in a port.
The TACs, the quotas and the conditions functionally linked thereto, where appropriate, are set out in Annex I.
1.The allocation of fishing opportunities among Member States, as set out in this Regulation, shall be without prejudice to:
(a)exchanges made pursuant to Article 20(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002;
(b)reallocations made pursuant to Article 37 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009;
(c)additional landings allowed under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96;
(d)quantities withheld in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96;
(e)deductions made pursuant to Articles 37, 105, 106 and 107 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.
2.Except where otherwise specified in Annex I to this Regulation, Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall apply to stocks subject to a precautionary TAC and Article 3(2) and (3) and Article 4 of that Regulation shall apply to stocks subject to an analytical TAC.
1. This Article shall apply to the following stocks:
(a) herring in ICES subdivisions 30-31;
(b) herring in Union waters of ICES subdivisions 25-27, 28.2, 29 and 32;
(c) herring in ICES subdivision 28.1;
(d) sprat in Union waters of ICES subdivisions 22-32.
2. Any quantities up to 25 % of a Member State's quota of the stocks identified in paragraph 1 that have not been used in 2014 shall be added for the purpose of calculating the quota of the Member State concerned for the relevant stock for 2015. Any quantities transferred to other Member States pursuant to Article 16(8) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (6) as well as any quantities deducted pursuant to Articles 37, 105 and 107 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 shall be taken into account for the purpose of establishing quantities used and quantities not used under this paragraph.
3. Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply to stocks identified in paragraph 1 of this Article in respect of the Member States concerned.]
Textual Amendments
Fish from stocks for which catch limits are established shall be retained on board or landed only if the catches and by-catches have been taken by vessels of a Member State having a quota and that quota is not exhausted.
1.Fishing effort limits are set out in Annex II.
2.The limits referred to in paragraph 1 shall also apply to ICES subdivisions 27 and 28.2, unless the Commission has taken a decision in accordance with Article 29(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 to exclude those subdivisions from the restrictions provided for in Article 8(1)(b), Article 8(3), (4) and (5) and Article 13 of that Regulation.
3.The limits referred to in paragraph 1 shall not apply to ICES subdivision 28.1, unless the Commission has taken a decision in accordance with Article 29(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 that the restrictions provided for in Article 8(1)(b)and Article 8(3), (4) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 shall apply to that subdivision.
When Member States send the Commission data relating to landings of quantities of stocks caught, pursuant to Articles 33 and 34 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, they shall use the stock codes set out in Annex I to this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2014.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
The following tables set out the TACs and quotas (in tonnes live weight, except where otherwise specified) by stock, and conditions functionally linked thereto, where appropriate.
The references to fishing zones are references to ICES zones, unless otherwise specified.
The fish stocks are referred to following the alphabetical order of the Latin names of the species.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following comparative table of Latin names and common names is provided:
Scientific name | Alpha-3 code | Common name |
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Clupea harengus | HER | Herring |
Gadus morhua | COD | Cod |
Pleuronectes platessa | PLE | Plaice |
Salmo salar | SAL | Atlantic salmon |
Sprattus sprattus | SPR | Sprat |
[F1Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply. Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply.] | ||
SpeciesHerringClupea harengus | Zonesubdivisions 30-31HER/3D30.; HER/3D31. | |
---|---|---|
Finland | 112 977 | Analytical TAC |
Sweden | 24 823 | |
Union | 137 800 | |
TAC | 137 800 |
SpeciesHerringClupea harengus | Zonesubdivisions 22-24HER/3B23.; HER/3C22.; HER/3D24. | |
---|---|---|
Denmark | 2 769 | Analytical TAC Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply. Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply. |
Germany | 10 900 | |
Finland | 1 | |
Poland | 2 570 | |
Sweden | 3 514 | |
Union | 19 754 | |
TAC | 19 754 |
[F1Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply. Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply.] | ||
SpeciesHerringClupea harengus | ZoneUnion waters of subdivisions 25-27, 28.2, 29 and 32HER/3D25.; HER/3D26.; HER/3D27.; HER/3D28.2; HER/3D29.; HER/3D32. | |
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Denmark | 2 480 | Analytical TAC |
Germany | 658 | |
Estonia | 12 664 | |
Finland | 24 721 | |
Latvia | 3 125 | |
Lithuania | 3 291 | |
Poland | 28 085 | |
Sweden | 37 701 | |
Union | 112 725 | |
TAC | Not relevant |
[F1Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply. Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply.] | ||
SpeciesHerringClupea harengus | Zonesubdivision 28.1HER/03D.RG | |
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Estonia | 14 186 | Analytical TAC |
Latvia | 16 534 | |
Union | 30 720 | |
TAC | 30 720 |
SpeciesCodGadus morhua | ZoneUnion waters of subdivisions 25-32COD/3D25.; COD/3D26.; COD/3D27.; COD/3D28.; COD/3D29.; COD/3D30.; COD/3D31.; COD/3D32. | |
---|---|---|
Denmark | 15 147 | Analytical TAC |
Germany | 6 025 | |
Estonia | 1 476 | |
Finland | 1 159 | |
Latvia | 5 632 | |
Lithuania | 3 710 | |
Poland | 17 440 | |
Sweden | 15 345 | |
Union | 65 934 | |
TAC | Not relevant |
SpeciesCodGadus morhua | Zonesubdivisions 22-24COD/3B23.; COD/3C22.; COD/3D24. | |
---|---|---|
Denmark | 7 436 | Analytical TAC Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply. Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply. |
Germany | 3 636 | |
Estonia | 165 | |
Finland | 146 | |
Latvia | 615 | |
Lithuania | 399 | |
Poland | 1 990 | |
Sweden | 2 650 | |
Union | 17 037 | |
TAC | 17 037 |
SpeciesPlaicePleuronectes platessa | ZoneUnion waters of subdivisions 22-32PLE/3B23.; PLE/3C22.; PLE/3D24.; PLE/3D25.; PLE/3D26.; PLE/3D27.; PLE/3D28.; PLE/3D29.; PLE/3D30.; PLE/3D31.; PLE/3D32. | |
---|---|---|
Denmark | 2 443 | Precautionary TAC |
Germany | 271 | |
Poland | 511 | |
Sweden | 184 | |
Union | 3 409 | |
TAC | 3 409 |
a Expressed by number of individual fish. | ||
SpeciesAtlantic salmonSalmo salar | ZoneUnion waters of subdivisions 22-31SAL/3B23.; SAL/3C22.; SAL/3D24.; SAL/3D25.; SAL/3D26.; SAL/3D27.; SAL/3D28.; SAL/3D29.; SAL/3D30.; SAL/3D31. | |
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Denmark | 22 087a | Analytical TAC Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply. Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply. |
Germany | 2 457a | |
Estonia | 2 245a | |
Finland | 27 541a | |
Latvia | 14 049a | |
Lithuania | 1 651a | |
Poland | 6 700a | |
Sweden | 29 857a | |
Union | 106 587a | |
TAC | Not relevant |
a At least 92 % of landings counted against the quota must be of sprat. By-catches of herring are to be counted against the remaining 8 % of the quota (HER/*3BCDC). | ||
[F1Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply. Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply.] | ||
SpeciesSpratSprattus sprattus | ZoneUnion waters of subdivisions 22-32SPR/3B23.; SPR/3C22.; SPR/3D24.; SPR/3D25.; SPR/3D26.; SPR/3D27.; SPR/3D28.; SPR/3D29.; SPR/3D30.; SPR/3D31.; SPR/3D32. | |
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Denmark | 23 672a | Analytical TAC |
Germany | 14 997a | |
Estonia | 27 489a | |
Finland | 12 392a | |
Latvia | 33 200a | |
Lithuania | 12 010a | |
Poland | 70 456a | |
Sweden | 45 763a | |
Union | 239 979 | |
TAC | Not relevant |
147 days absent from port in ICES subdivisions 22-24, with the exception of the period from 1 to 30 April when Article 8(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 applies; and
146 days absent from port in ICES subdivisions 25-28, with the exception of the period from 1 July to 31 August when Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 applies.
Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 of 20 December 2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy (OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 59).
Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 of 18 September 2007 establishing a multiannual plan for the cod stocks in the Baltic Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks, amending Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 779/97 (OJ L 248, 22.9.2007, p. 1).
Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy, amending Regulations (EC) No 847/96, (EC) No 2371/2002, (EC) No 811/2004, (EC) No 768/2005, (EC) No 2115/2005, (EC) No 2166/2005, (EC) No 388/2006, (EC) No 509/2007, (EC) No 676/2007, (EC) No 1098/2007, (EC) No 1300/2008, (EC) No 1342/2008 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2847/93, (EC) No 1627/94 and (EC) No 1966/2006 (OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 1).
Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 of 6 May 1996 introducing additional conditions for year-to-year management of TACs and quotas (OJ L 115, 9.5.1996, p. 3).
Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005 of 21 December 2005 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures in the Baltic Sea, the Belts and the Sound, amending Regulation (EC) No 1434/98 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 88/98 (OJ L 349, 31.12.2005, p. 1).
[F1Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC ( OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22 ).]