Council Regulation (EC) No 754/2009 of 27 July 2009 excluding certain groups of vessels from the fishing effort regime laid down in Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2008

• Published date: 19 August 2009
• Official Gazette Publication: Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea, L 214, 19 de agosto de 2009,Gazzetta ufficiale dell’Unione europea, L 214, 19 agosto 2009,Journal officiel de l’Union européenne, L 214, 19 août 2009

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Amended by:

		Official Journal
		No	page	date
►M1	COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 53/2010 of 14 January 2010	L 21	1	26.1.2010
►M2	COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 712/2010 of 26 July 2010	L 209	1	10.8.2010
►M3	COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 57/2011 of 18 January 2011	L 24	1	27.1.2011
►M4	COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 1106/2011 of 20 October 2011	L 287	13	4.11.2011
M5	COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 43/2012 of 17 January 2012	L 25	1	27.1.2012
►M7	COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 1040/2012 of 7 November 2012	L 310	13	9.11.2012
►M8	COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 1182/2013 of 19 November 2013	L 313	15	22.11.2013
►M9	COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 732/2014 of 3 July 2014	L 197	1	4.7.2014

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 754/2009

of 27 July 2009

excluding certain groups of vessels from the fishing effort regime laid down in Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2008

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1342/2008 of 18 December establishing a long-term plan for cod stocks and the fisheries exploiting those stocks ( 1 ), and in particular Article 11 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1) Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2008 establishes a fishing effort regime whereby fishing opportunities in terms of fishing effort are allocated to Member States on an annual basis. According to Article 11(2) of that Regulation, the Council may, acting on a Commission proposal and on the basis of the information provided by Member States and the advice of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF), exclude certain groups of vessels from the application of the fishing effort regime provided that appropriate data is available on the cod catches and discards of the vessels concerned, that the percentage of cod catches does not exceed 1,5 % of the total catches of the group of vessels and that the inclusion of the group in the effort regime would constitute an administrative burden disproportionate to its overall impact on cod stocks.

(2) Sweden provided information on the cod catches by a group of vessels fishing in the Skagerrak and Kattegat for Norway lobster with a selective sorting grid as defined in Appendix 2 to Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 43/2009 ( 2 ). On the basis of that information, as assessed by STECF, it can be established that the cod catches, including discards, of vessels involved in that activity during the period that they deploy solely that selective fishing gear, do not exceed 1,5 % of the total catches of the group of vessels involved in that activity during that same period. Moreover, having regard to the Swedish control program for cod stocks in the North Sea, Skagerrak and the Kattegat and considering that the inclusion of that group would constitute an administrative burden disproportionate to its overall impact on cod stocks, it is appropriate to exclude the group of vessels fishing in the Skagerrak and Kattegat for Norway lobster with a selective sorting grid, for the period where they solely deploy the gear in question, from the application of the effort regime laid down in Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2008.

(3) Spain provided information on cod catches by a group of vessels fishing with bottom trawls to the West of Scotland mainly for hake. On the basis of that information, as assessed by STECF, it can be established that the cod catches, including discards, of

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