Commission Decision (EU) 2016/547 of 7 April 2016 approving, on behalf of the European Union, an amendment to the Protocol between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco setting out the fishing opportunities and financial compensation provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Morocco
Commission Decision (EU) 2016/547 of 7 April 2016 approving, on behalf of the European Union, an amendment to the Protocol between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco setting out the fishing opportunities and financial compensation provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Morocco
Decision (EU) 2016/547 · Decision · 4 articles
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The amendments to datasheets Nos 4 and 6 of the Protocol between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco setting out the fishing opportunities and financial compensation provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Morocco, adopted by the Joint Committee established by Article 10 of the said Agreement and resulting from the extract from the minutes and the extract from letter No 510/11 contained in Annexes I and II to this Decision, are hereby approved on behalf of the Union.
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
It shall apply as from 13 November 2015.
ANNEX I
Extract from the minutes of the meeting of 14-16 October 2015 of the Joint Committee, which was established by the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Morocco
After finding that the longliners subcategory was underutilised and after receiving a request from the European Union to revise the authorised tonnage, the Moroccan side proposed a new allocation of the number and tonnage of authorised vessels, in compliance with the overall capacity limit for the category 4 longline segment, as follows: 5 longliners of 150 GT or less and 4 longliners of 200 GT or less. The Moroccan side would continue to analyse this request in the light of the overall limit set while also examining licence applications for vessels with a tonnage exceeding 200 GT.
ANNEX II
Extract from letter No 510/11 from the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture and Sea Fisheries, dated 13 November 2015
Following the request made at the second Joint Committee on reviewing certain technical methods for exploiting small pelagic species belonging to category 6, held in Brussels from 14 to 16 October 2015, I am pleased to inform you that according to the scientific opinion of the INRH the catch rates for the sardine-sardinella group of species should be 37 % of the allocated quota and maintained at this level in order to avoid overexploitation of the stock.
