Council Regulation (EU) No 1088/2012 of 20 November 2012 fixing for 2013 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks applicable in the Baltic Sea

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Article 1 Subject matter

This Regulation fixes the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks in the Baltic Sea for 2013.

Article 2 Scope

This Regulation shall apply to Union vessels operating in the Baltic Sea.

Article 3 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

(a)

‘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 of 21 December 2005 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures in the Baltic Sea, the Belts and the Sound  ( 5 ) ;

(b)

‘Baltic Sea’ means ICES Subdivisions 22-32;

(c)

‘Union vessel’ means a fishing vessel flying the flag of a Member State and registered in the Union;

(d)

‘total allowable catch’ (TAC) means the quantity that can be taken from each stock each year;

(e)

‘quota’ means a proportion of the TAC allocated to the Union, a Member State or a third country;

(f)

‘day absent from port’ means any continuous period of 24 hours or part thereof during which a vessel is absent from port.

Article 4 TACs and allocations

The TACs, the quotas and the conditions functionally linked thereto, where appropriate, are set out in Annex I.

Article 5 Special provisions on allocations

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.

Article 6 Conditions for landing catches and by-catches

Fish from stocks for which catch limits are established shall be retained on board or landed only if the catches have been taken by vessels of a Member State having a quota and that quota is not exhausted.

Article 7 Fishing effort limits

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.

Article 8 Data transmission

When, pursuant to Articles 33 and 34 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, Member States send the Commission data relating to landings of quantities of stocks caught, they shall use the stock codes set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 9 Entry into force

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 2013.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX I

ANNEX I

TACs APPLICABLE TO UNION VESSELS IN AREAS WHERE TACs EXIST BY SPECIES AND BY AREA

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.

Within each area, 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

Clupea harengus

HER

Herring

Gadus morhua

COD

Cod

Pleuronectes platessa

PLE

Plaice

Salmo salar

SAL

Atlantic salmon

Sprattus sprattus

SPR

Sprat

Species

:

Herring

Clupea harengus

Zone

:

Subdivisions 30-31

HER/3D30.; HER/3D31.

Finland

86 905

Analytical TAC

Sweden

19 095

Union

106 000

TAC

106 000

Species

:

Herring

Clupea harengus

Zone

:

Subdivisions 22-24

HER/3B23.; HER/3C22.; HER/3D24.

Denmark

3 617

Analytical TAC

Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 does not apply.

Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 does not apply.

Germany

14 234

Finland

2

Poland

3 357

Sweden

4 590

Union

25 800

TAC

25 800

Species

:

Herring

Clupea harengus

Zone

:

Union waters of Subdivisions 25-27, 28.2, 29 and 32

HER/3D25.; HER/3D26.; HER/3D27.; HER/3D28.2; HER/3D29.; HER/3D32.

Denmark

1 984

Analytical TAC

Germany

526

Estonia

10 131

Finland

19 776

Latvia

2 500

Lithuania

2 633

Poland

22 468

Sweden

30 162

Union

90 180

TAC

Not relevant

Species

:

Herring

Clupea harengus

Zone

:

Subdivision 28.1

HER/03D.RG

Estonia

14 120

Analytical TAC

Latvia

16 456

Union

30 576

TAC

30 576

Species

:

Cod

Gadus morhua

Zone

:

Union waters of Subdivisions 25-32

COD/3D25.; COD/3D26.; COD/3D27.; COD/3D28.; COD/3D29.; COD/3D30.; COD/3D31.; COD/3D32.

Denmark

14 143

Analytical TAC

Germany

5 626

Estonia

1 378

Finland

1 082

Latvia

5 259

Lithuania

3 464

Poland

16 285

Sweden

14 328

Union

61 565

TAC

Not relevant

Species

:

Cod

Gadus morhua

Zone

:

Subdivisions 22-24

COD/3B23.; COD/3C22.; COD/3D24.

Denmark

8 749

Analytical TAC

Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 does not apply.

Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 does not apply.

Germany

4 277

Estonia

194

Finland

172

Latvia

724

Lithuania

469

Poland

2 341

Sweden

3 117

Union

20 043

TAC

20 043

Species

:

Plaice

Pleuronectes platessa

Zone

:

Union waters of Subdivisions 22-32

PLE/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

Species

:

Atlantic salmon

Salmo salar

Zone

:

Union waters of Subdivisions 22-31

SAL/3B23.; SAL/3C22.; SAL/3D24.; SAL/3D25.; SAL/3D26.; SAL/3D27.; SAL/3D28.; SAL/3D29.; SAL/3D30.; SAL/3D31.

Denmark

22 538  ( 1 )

Analytical TAC

Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 does not apply.

Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 does not apply.

Germany

2 508  ( 1 )

Estonia

2 291  ( 1 )

Finland

28 103  ( 1 )

Latvia

14 335  ( 1 )

Lithuania

1 685  ( 1 )

Poland

6 837  ( 1 )

Sweden

30 465  ( 1 )

Union

108 762  ( 1 )

TAC

Not relevant

Species

:

Atlantic salmon

Salmo salar

Zone

:

Union waters of Subdivision 32

SAL/3D32.

Estonia

1 581  ( 2 )

Precautionary TAC

Finland

13 838  ( 2 )

Union

15 419  ( 2 )

TAC

Not relevant

Species

:

Sprat

Sprattus sprattus

Zone

:

Union waters of Subdivisions 22-32

SPR/3B23.; SPR/3C22.; SPR/3D24.; SPR/3D25.; SPR/3D26.; SPR/3D27.; SPR/3D28.; SPR/3D29.; SPR/3D30.; SPR/3D31.; SPR/3D32.

Denmark

24 659  ( 3 )

Analytical TAC

Germany

15 622  ( 3 )

Estonia

28 634  ( 3 )

Finland

12 908  ( 3 )

Latvia

34 583  ( 3 )

Lithuania

12 510  ( 3 )

Poland

73 392  ( 3 )

Sweden

47 670  ( 3 )

Union

249 978

TAC

Not relevant

( 1 )   Expressed by number of individual fish.

( 2 )   Expressed by number of individual fish.

( 3 )   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).

ANNEX II

ANNEX II

FISHING EFFORT LIMITS

1.

Member States shall allocate the right to vessels flying their flag and fishing with trawls, Danish seines or similar gear of a mesh size equal to or larger than 90 mm, with gillnets, entangling nets or trammel nets of a mesh size equal to or larger than 90 mm, with bottom set lines, longlines except drifting lines, handlines and jigging equipment, to be up to:

(a)

163 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

(b)

160 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.

2.

The maximum number of days absent from port per year for which a vessel may be present within the two areas referred to in point 1(a) and (b) fishing with the gear specified in point 1 may not exceed the maximum number of days absent from port allocated for one of these two areas.

3.

By way of derogation from points 1 and 2, and where efficient management of fishing opportunities so requires, a Member State may allocate to vessels flying its flag the right to additional days absent from port where an equal amount of days absent from port is withdrawn from other vessels flying its flag that are subject to effort restriction in the same area and where the capacity, in terms of kW, of each of the donor vessels is equal to, or larger than, that of the receiving vessels. The number of receiving vessels may not exceed 15 % of the total number of vessels of the Member State concerned, as indicated in point 1.