Activites

• 1999/12/30 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 1999/2791
  • OJ L 337 30.12.1999, p. 0001
• #2237
• 1999/12/16 Council Meeting
• 1999/12/16 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1999/12/16 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1999/12/15 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0158/1999 summary

    By adopting the report by Mr Niels BUSK (ELDR, DK), the European Parliament approved the Commission's proposal for a Regulation.�

• 1999/12/13 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1999/12/06 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0092/1999
• #2220
• 1999/11/22 Council Meeting
  • 2220 summary

    At its session on 22 November 1999, the Council, while it approved the main lines of the regulation, focused on the thorny question of sharing of burdens and costs between the Commission and Member States for the implementation of regulatory measures adopted bu regional fisheries organisations. Contrary to the system operating in the NAFO (North§West Atlantic Fisheries Organisation) where control and enforcement are financed from the Community budget, the Commission proposes that Member States shoulder the burden of implementing the NEAFC scheme (provision of inspector and inspection vessels, cover of investment and running costs, etc.). As a large number of delegations were opposed to this solution, it was decided to only make the measures regarding inspection and control applicable for the year 2000. The key question of burden sharing and allocation of resources will be dealt with in the context of a new proposal that the Commission will present by September 2000 which will seek to find a permanent solution to this problem.�

• 1999/10/25 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1999/07/12 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1999)0345 summary

    PURPOSE: to lay down certain control measures applicable in the area covered by the Convention on Future Multilateral Co-operation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries. CONTENT: The North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC), to which the European Community is a Contracting Party, seeks to ensure the conservation and rational management of the fishery resources in the area defined by the Convention. At its annual meeting in November 1998, the NEAFC adopted 2 recommendations concerning : 1) the establishment of a Scheme of control and enforcement applicable to fishing vessels operating in the NEAFC areas and arranging inspections at sea which, provide for reciprocal rights of inspection of vessels by Contracting Parties together with a procedure for monitoring infringements and 2) the establishment of a Programme to promote compliance by the non-Contracting Party vessels, with the recommendations established by the NEAFC. The aim of the recommendations is to ensure respect for conservation and management measures adopted by the NEAFC. The Programme provides for the mandatory inspection of non-Contracting Party vessels, where these vessels entr the ports of Contracting Parties voluntarily and a ban on the landing and transhipment of fish if, in the course of such inspection, it is established that the catches have been taken in the breach of the conservation measures adopted by the NEAFC. These 2 recommendations will enter into force on 1 July 1999 and it is in the Community's interest, therefore, that they be applied in the Community by means of the proposed Regulation. The purpose of this proposal is to translate these recommendations for use in the Community.�

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1999)0345
• Debate in Council: 2220
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0092/1999
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0158/1999
• : Regulation 1999/2791
• : OJ L 337 30.12.1999, p. 0001

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)