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2007/0232(CNS) EC/Seychelles Fisheries Agreement: protocol for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011, amendments

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead PECH ORTUONDO LARREA Josu (icon: ALDE ALDE)
Committee Opinion DEVE BORRELL FONTELLES Josep (icon: PSE PSE)
Committee Opinion BUDG TRÜPEL Helga (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
EC Treaty (after Amsterdam) EC 037, EC Treaty (after Amsterdam) EC 300-p2/3-a1

Events

2008/06/12
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2008/05/31
   Final act published in Official Journal
Details

PURPOSE: to amend the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the EC and the Seychelles.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation (EC) No 480/2008 on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Seychelles on fishing off Seychelles.

CONTENT: the Council adopted a regulation amending the protocol setting out, for the period from January 2005 to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the fisheries agreement with the Seychelles (see CNS/2005/0173 ).

The amendments increase the reference tonnage of fishing vessels, taking account of the average level of catches over the past three years, introduce financial support for the partnership and increase the share paid by ship owners.

The main objective of the amendments made to the Protocol is to:

increase the reference tonnage from 55 000 tonnes to 63 000 tonnes to take account of the average level of catches over the past three years; introduce the financial support for the partnership which was not introduced in the previous negotiations (prior to the Council Conclusions of July 2004 on Fisheries Partnership Agreements); increase the share paid by ship owners from EUR 25 to EUR 35 per tonne to bring the Protocol into line with other tuna agreements, hence reducing the Community contribution from EUR 75 to EUR 65 per tonne; fishing opportunities remain unchanged: 40 tuna seiners and 12 surface longliners; the annual financial contribution increases from EUR 4 125 000 in the current Protocol to EUR 5 355 000 in the amended Protocol and the estimated fee payable by ship owners from EUR 1 375 000 to EUR 2 205 000 ; advances and fees payable by ship owners: EUR 35 (compared with EUR 25 previously) per tonne of tuna. The advances are fixed at EUR 21 000 per year per tuna seiner, EUR 4 200 per year per surface longliner over 250 GT and EUR 3 150 per year per surface longliner of 250 GT or less.

The fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol and laid down in Regulation (EC) No 115/2006 are not amended and are confirmed as follows:

Tuna seiners:

Spain: 22 vessels France: 17 vessels Italy: 1 vessel

Surface longliners:

Spain: 2 vessels France: 5 vessels Portugal: 5 vessels

If licence applications from these Member States do not cover all the fishing opportunities laid down by the Protocol, the Commission may take into consideration licence applications from any other Member State.

The Member States whose vessels fish under this Agreement will notify the Commission of the quantities of each stock caught within the Seychelles fishing zone in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 500/2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 on the monitoring of catches taken by Community fishing vessels in third country waters and on the high seas.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 03/06/2008.

2008/05/26
   EP/CSL - Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
2008/05/26
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2008/05/26
   CSL - Council Meeting
2008/05/08
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2008/05/08
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted, by 503 votes to 71 with 33 abstentions, a legislative resolution making some amendments to the proposal for a Council regulation on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the European Community and the Seychelles. The report was tabled for consideration in plenary by Josu ORTUONDO LARREA (ALDE, ES), on behalf of the Committee on Fisheries.

The amendments, adopted under the framework of the consultation procedure, were as follows :

-a new recital states that Chapter VIII of this Fisheries Agreement, relating to port equipment, states that 'the Seychelles authorities shall lay down, in agreement with the shipowners, the conditions for using port equipment', but no action has yet been taken to meet our industry's demands as regards improving port infrastructure ;

-if fisheries sectoral policy in Seychelles is to become a reality, account must be taken of the improvement and modernisation of port infrastructure, which is currently highly congested, and of the possibility of abolishing the special landing fee for tuna, which does not exist in any other port in the world ;

-the Commission shall evaluate each year whether Member States whose vessels operate under the Protocol to the Agreement have complied with reporting requirements. Where they have not, the Commission shall withhold their requests for fishing licences for the following year ;

-the Commission shall report annually to the European Parliament and the Council on the results of the multiannual sectoral programme described in Article 7 of the Protocol as well as on compliance by the Member States with reporting requirements ;

- before expiry of the Protocol or the beginning of negotiations for its possible replacement, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council an ex post evaluation of the Protocol, including a cost-benefit analysis.

Documents
2008/03/31
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
2008/03/31
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
2008/03/27
   EP - Vote in committee
Details

The Committee on Fisheries adopted a report drafted by Josu ORTUONDO LARREA (ALDE, ES) and made some amendments to the proposal for a Council regulation on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Seychelles.

The amendments were as follows :

-a new recital states that Chapter VIII of this Fisheries Agreement, relating to port equipment, states that 'the Seychelles authorities shall lay down, in agreement with the shipowners, the conditions for using port equipment', but no action has yet been taken to meet our industry's demands as regards improving port infrastructure ;

-if fisheries sectoral policy in Seychelles is to become a reality, account must be taken of the improvement and modernisation of port infrastructure, which is currently highly congested, and of the possibility of abolishing the special landing fee for tuna, which does not exist in any other port in the world ;

-the Commission shall evaluate each year whether Member States whose vessels operate under the Protocol to the Agreement have complied with reporting requirements. Where this is not the case, the Commission shall withhold their requests for fishing licences for the following year ;

-the Commission shall report annually to the European Parliament and the Council on the results of the multiannual sectoral programme described in Article 7 of the Protocol as well as on compliance by the Member States with reporting requirements ;

- before expiry of the Protocol or the beginning of negotiations for its possible replacement, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council an ex post evaluation of the Protocol, including a cost-benefit analysis.

2008/03/04
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2008/02/28
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2008/02/28
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2008/02/12
   CSL - Council Meeting
2007/12/18
   EP - BORRELL FONTELLES Josep (PSE) appointed as rapporteur in DEVE
2007/12/13
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2007/11/29
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2007/11/22
   EP - ORTUONDO LARREA Josu (ALDE) appointed as rapporteur in PECH
2007/10/31
   EC - Legislative proposal
Details

PURPOSE: to conclude the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011 , the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the EC and the Seychelles.

PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation.

CONTENT: following the meeting of the EC/Seychelles Joint Committee in January 2007, it was decided that the two Parties would organise a meeting of the Joint Committee in order to submit proposals for amendments to the existing Protocol ( CNS/2005/0173 ). These were discussed at the meeting of the Joint Committee held on 20-21 March in Brussels.

The main objective of the amendments made to the Protocol is to:

increase the reference tonnage from 55 000 tonnes to 63 000 tonnes to take account of the average level of catches over the past three years; introduce the financial support for the partnership which was not introduced in the previous negotiations (prior to the Council Conclusions of July 2004 on Fisheries Partnership Agreements); increase the share paid by ship owners from EUR 25 to EUR 35 per tonne to bring the Protocol into line with other tuna agreements, hence reducing the Community contribution from EUR 75 to EUR 65 per tonne; fishing opportunities remain unchanged: 40 tuna seiners and 12 surface longliners; the annual financial contribution increases from EUR 4 125 000 in the current Protocol to EUR 5 355 000 in the amended Protocol and the estimated fee payable by ship owners from EUR 1 375 000 to EUR 2 205 000 ; advances and fees payable by ship owners: EUR 35 (compared with EUR 25 previously) per tonne of tuna. The advances are fixed at EUR 21 000 per year per tuna seiner, EUR 4 200 per year per surface longliner over 250 GT and EUR 3 150 per year per surface longliner of 250 GT or less.

The fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol and laid down in Regulation (EC) No 115/2006 will not be amended. To recall, these are:

Tuna seiners :

Spain: 22 vessels France: 17 vessels Italy: 1 vessel

Surface longliners :

Spain: 2 vessels France: 5 vessels Portugal: 5 vessels

This amended Protocol is to be applied provisionally from 18 January 2008 pending its entry into force in accordance with Article 13.

A proposal for a Council Decision on the provisional application of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol is the subject of a separate procedure.

2007/10/30
   EC - Legislative proposal published
Details

PURPOSE: to conclude the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011 , the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the EC and the Seychelles.

PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation.

CONTENT: following the meeting of the EC/Seychelles Joint Committee in January 2007, it was decided that the two Parties would organise a meeting of the Joint Committee in order to submit proposals for amendments to the existing Protocol ( CNS/2005/0173 ). These were discussed at the meeting of the Joint Committee held on 20-21 March in Brussels.

The main objective of the amendments made to the Protocol is to:

increase the reference tonnage from 55 000 tonnes to 63 000 tonnes to take account of the average level of catches over the past three years; introduce the financial support for the partnership which was not introduced in the previous negotiations (prior to the Council Conclusions of July 2004 on Fisheries Partnership Agreements); increase the share paid by ship owners from EUR 25 to EUR 35 per tonne to bring the Protocol into line with other tuna agreements, hence reducing the Community contribution from EUR 75 to EUR 65 per tonne; fishing opportunities remain unchanged: 40 tuna seiners and 12 surface longliners; the annual financial contribution increases from EUR 4 125 000 in the current Protocol to EUR 5 355 000 in the amended Protocol and the estimated fee payable by ship owners from EUR 1 375 000 to EUR 2 205 000 ; advances and fees payable by ship owners: EUR 35 (compared with EUR 25 previously) per tonne of tuna. The advances are fixed at EUR 21 000 per year per tuna seiner, EUR 4 200 per year per surface longliner over 250 GT and EUR 3 150 per year per surface longliner of 250 GT or less.

The fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol and laid down in Regulation (EC) No 115/2006 will not be amended. To recall, these are:

Tuna seiners :

Spain: 22 vessels France: 17 vessels Italy: 1 vessel

Surface longliners :

Spain: 2 vessels France: 5 vessels Portugal: 5 vessels

This amended Protocol is to be applied provisionally from 18 January 2008 pending its entry into force in accordance with Article 13.

A proposal for a Council Decision on the provisional application of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol is the subject of a separate procedure.

2004/09/20
   EP - TRÜPEL Helga (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in BUDG

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Rapport Ortuondo Larrea A6-0085/2008 - résolution #

2008/05/08 Outcome: +: 503, -: 71, 0: 33
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AmendmentsDossier
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2008/03/04 PECH 2 amendments...
source: PE-402.748

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  • date: 2008-03-31T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2008-85&language=EN title: A6-0085/2008 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
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  • date: 2007-10-31T00:00:00 type: Legislative proposal published body: EC docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2007/0664/COM_COM(2007)0664_EN.pdf title: COM(2007)0664 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=2007&nu_doc=664 title: EUR-Lex summary: PURPOSE: to conclude the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011 , the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the EC and the Seychelles. PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation. CONTENT: following the meeting of the EC/Seychelles Joint Committee in January 2007, it was decided that the two Parties would organise a meeting of the Joint Committee in order to submit proposals for amendments to the existing Protocol ( CNS/2005/0173 ). These were discussed at the meeting of the Joint Committee held on 20-21 March in Brussels. The main objective of the amendments made to the Protocol is to: increase the reference tonnage from 55 000 tonnes to 63 000 tonnes to take account of the average level of catches over the past three years; introduce the financial support for the partnership which was not introduced in the previous negotiations (prior to the Council Conclusions of July 2004 on Fisheries Partnership Agreements); increase the share paid by ship owners from EUR 25 to EUR 35 per tonne to bring the Protocol into line with other tuna agreements, hence reducing the Community contribution from EUR 75 to EUR 65 per tonne; fishing opportunities remain unchanged: 40 tuna seiners and 12 surface longliners; the annual financial contribution increases from EUR 4 125 000 in the current Protocol to EUR 5 355 000 in the amended Protocol and the estimated fee payable by ship owners from EUR 1 375 000 to EUR 2 205 000 ; advances and fees payable by ship owners: EUR 35 (compared with EUR 25 previously) per tonne of tuna. The advances are fixed at EUR 21 000 per year per tuna seiner, EUR 4 200 per year per surface longliner over 250 GT and EUR 3 150 per year per surface longliner of 250 GT or less. The fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol and laid down in Regulation (EC) No 115/2006 will not be amended. To recall, these are: Tuna seiners : Spain: 22 vessels France: 17 vessels Italy: 1 vessel Surface longliners : Spain: 2 vessels France: 5 vessels Portugal: 5 vessels This amended Protocol is to be applied provisionally from 18 January 2008 pending its entry into force in accordance with Article 13. A proposal for a Council Decision on the provisional application of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol is the subject of a separate procedure.
  • date: 2007-11-29T00:00:00 type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2008-03-27T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP summary: The Committee on Fisheries adopted a report drafted by Josu ORTUONDO LARREA (ALDE, ES) and made some amendments to the proposal for a Council regulation on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Seychelles. The amendments were as follows : -a new recital states that Chapter VIII of this Fisheries Agreement, relating to port equipment, states that 'the Seychelles authorities shall lay down, in agreement with the shipowners, the conditions for using port equipment', but no action has yet been taken to meet our industry's demands as regards improving port infrastructure ; -if fisheries sectoral policy in Seychelles is to become a reality, account must be taken of the improvement and modernisation of port infrastructure, which is currently highly congested, and of the possibility of abolishing the special landing fee for tuna, which does not exist in any other port in the world ; -the Commission shall evaluate each year whether Member States whose vessels operate under the Protocol to the Agreement have complied with reporting requirements. Where this is not the case, the Commission shall withhold their requests for fishing licences for the following year ; -the Commission shall report annually to the European Parliament and the Council on the results of the multiannual sectoral programme described in Article 7 of the Protocol as well as on compliance by the Member States with reporting requirements ; - before expiry of the Protocol or the beginning of negotiations for its possible replacement, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council an ex post evaluation of the Protocol, including a cost-benefit analysis.
  • date: 2008-03-31T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2008-85&language=EN title: A6-0085/2008
  • date: 2008-05-08T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=14821&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
  • date: 2008-05-08T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2008-187 title: T6-0187/2008 summary: The European Parliament adopted, by 503 votes to 71 with 33 abstentions, a legislative resolution making some amendments to the proposal for a Council regulation on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the European Community and the Seychelles. The report was tabled for consideration in plenary by Josu ORTUONDO LARREA (ALDE, ES), on behalf of the Committee on Fisheries. The amendments, adopted under the framework of the consultation procedure, were as follows : -a new recital states that Chapter VIII of this Fisheries Agreement, relating to port equipment, states that 'the Seychelles authorities shall lay down, in agreement with the shipowners, the conditions for using port equipment', but no action has yet been taken to meet our industry's demands as regards improving port infrastructure ; -if fisheries sectoral policy in Seychelles is to become a reality, account must be taken of the improvement and modernisation of port infrastructure, which is currently highly congested, and of the possibility of abolishing the special landing fee for tuna, which does not exist in any other port in the world ; -the Commission shall evaluate each year whether Member States whose vessels operate under the Protocol to the Agreement have complied with reporting requirements. Where they have not, the Commission shall withhold their requests for fishing licences for the following year ; -the Commission shall report annually to the European Parliament and the Council on the results of the multiannual sectoral programme described in Article 7 of the Protocol as well as on compliance by the Member States with reporting requirements ; - before expiry of the Protocol or the beginning of negotiations for its possible replacement, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council an ex post evaluation of the Protocol, including a cost-benefit analysis.
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  • date: 2008-05-31T00:00:00 type: Final act published in Official Journal summary: PURPOSE: to amend the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the EC and the Seychelles. LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation (EC) No 480/2008 on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Seychelles on fishing off Seychelles. CONTENT: the Council adopted a regulation amending the protocol setting out, for the period from January 2005 to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the fisheries agreement with the Seychelles (see CNS/2005/0173 ). The amendments increase the reference tonnage of fishing vessels, taking account of the average level of catches over the past three years, introduce financial support for the partnership and increase the share paid by ship owners. The main objective of the amendments made to the Protocol is to: increase the reference tonnage from 55 000 tonnes to 63 000 tonnes to take account of the average level of catches over the past three years; introduce the financial support for the partnership which was not introduced in the previous negotiations (prior to the Council Conclusions of July 2004 on Fisheries Partnership Agreements); increase the share paid by ship owners from EUR 25 to EUR 35 per tonne to bring the Protocol into line with other tuna agreements, hence reducing the Community contribution from EUR 75 to EUR 65 per tonne; fishing opportunities remain unchanged: 40 tuna seiners and 12 surface longliners; the annual financial contribution increases from EUR 4 125 000 in the current Protocol to EUR 5 355 000 in the amended Protocol and the estimated fee payable by ship owners from EUR 1 375 000 to EUR 2 205 000 ; advances and fees payable by ship owners: EUR 35 (compared with EUR 25 previously) per tonne of tuna. The advances are fixed at EUR 21 000 per year per tuna seiner, EUR 4 200 per year per surface longliner over 250 GT and EUR 3 150 per year per surface longliner of 250 GT or less. The fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol and laid down in Regulation (EC) No 115/2006 are not amended and are confirmed as follows: Tuna seiners: Spain: 22 vessels France: 17 vessels Italy: 1 vessel Surface longliners: Spain: 2 vessels France: 5 vessels Portugal: 5 vessels If licence applications from these Member States do not cover all the fishing opportunities laid down by the Protocol, the Commission may take into consideration licence applications from any other Member State. The Member States whose vessels fish under this Agreement will notify the Commission of the quantities of each stock caught within the Seychelles fishing zone in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 500/2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 on the monitoring of catches taken by Community fishing vessels in third country waters and on the high seas. ENTRY INTO FORCE: 03/06/2008. docs: title: Regulation 2008/480 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32008R0480 title: OJ L 141 31.05.2008, p. 0001 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:141:SOM:EN:HTML
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