PURPOSE: to amend Regulation 1035/2001/EC establishing a catch documentation scheme for Dissostichus spp .

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation 1368/2006/EC amending Regulation 1035/2001 establishing a catch documentation scheme for Dissostichus spp .

CONTENT: the “Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources”, or the CCAMLR, has made a number of changes which seek to improve upon the control of landings, the import, export, re-export and transhipments of Dissostichus spp . The Community, which is a contracting party to the CCAMLR has decided to adopt CCAMLR amendments into its legislation. Regulation 1035/2001/EC, which currently regulates the documentation scheme of Dissostichus spp . has been amended accordingly. (For a summary of Regulation 1035/2001/EC please refer to CNS/2000/0171).

Regulation 1035/2001/EC has been amended in the following way:

- A number of terms have been defined and inserted into the Regulation. These terms are: import; landing; transhipment; export; re-export and Port State.

- Vessels wishing to harvest Dissostichus spp . will only be allowed to land catches in States which are Contracting Parties to the CCAMLR or those States which apply the catch documentation scheme.

- All licences and permits authorising the catch of Dissostichus spp . will bear the names of the CCAMLR Contracting Parties, and all those States who have notified the CCAMLR Secretariat that they apply the catch documentation scheme.

- Vessels landing or transhipping Dissostichus spp . must complete a catch document.

- Documents must be signed, stamped and validated by a responsible official of the Port State of landing. This process may also be carried out by an official in a free trade zone who is acting under the direction of either the customs or fisheries authorities of the Port State and who is competent to validate the catch documents of Dissostichus spp .

- On the 15 of March, June, September and December of each year, the Member States are obliged to send a list of the catch documents regarding landings, imports, exports, re-exports or transhipments on Dissostichus spp . to the Commission.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 6 October 2006.

The European Parliament adopted the Commission’s proposal.

The European Parliament adopted the Commission’s proposal.

The committee adopted the report by Margie SUDRE (EPP-ED, FR) approving the proposal unamended under the consultation procedure.

PURPOSE : to amend Regulation 1035/2001/EC establishing a catch documentation scheme for Dissostichus spp.

PROPOSED ACT : Council Regulation.

CONTENT : Council Regulation 1035/2001/EC establishing a catch documentation scheme for Dissostichus spp implements the catch documentation scheme adopted by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, hereinafter called "CCAMLR" at its eighteenth Annual Meeting in November 1999.

At its twenty-second Annual Meeting in November 2003, the CCAMLR made a number of amendments to the scheme and to a related resolution aimed at improving the control of landings of Dissostichus spp. and the monitoring of the documentation scheme.

It also noted that landings in the ports of countries applying the scheme were in certain cases validated by the authorities of the Flag State rather than by the competent authorities of the port.

Aware of the fact that these differing practices could lead to the fraudulent use of the catch documentation scheme in view of their affect on the monitoring of its application, the CCAMLR decide to make a number of amendments to improve the documentation system and, in particular, to specify the authorities responsible for validating landings of Dissostichus spp. on catch documents. It was also decided to amend the resolution on the use of ports of countries not applying the catch documentation scheme for Dissostichus spp, to stipulate that vessels with a fishing licence for Dissostichus spp. must land their catches in countries applying the scheme and to lay down the list of those countries. This amendment to the resolution was supported by the Community and, although it does not constitute a binding legal document, it should be transposed into Community law.

Since the catch documentation scheme applies to all trade in Dissostichus spp, the term "import" should be defined. Regulation 1035/2001 should consequently be amended.

PURPOSE : to amend Regulation 1035/2001/EC establishing a catch documentation scheme for Dissostichus spp.

PROPOSED ACT : Council Regulation.

CONTENT : Council Regulation 1035/2001/EC establishing a catch documentation scheme for Dissostichus spp implements the catch documentation scheme adopted by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, hereinafter called "CCAMLR" at its eighteenth Annual Meeting in November 1999.

At its twenty-second Annual Meeting in November 2003, the CCAMLR made a number of amendments to the scheme and to a related resolution aimed at improving the control of landings of Dissostichus spp. and the monitoring of the documentation scheme.

It also noted that landings in the ports of countries applying the scheme were in certain cases validated by the authorities of the Flag State rather than by the competent authorities of the port.

Aware of the fact that these differing practices could lead to the fraudulent use of the catch documentation scheme in view of their affect on the monitoring of its application, the CCAMLR decide to make a number of amendments to improve the documentation system and, in particular, to specify the authorities responsible for validating landings of Dissostichus spp. on catch documents. It was also decided to amend the resolution on the use of ports of countries not applying the catch documentation scheme for Dissostichus spp, to stipulate that vessels with a fishing licence for Dissostichus spp. must land their catches in countries applying the scheme and to lay down the list of those countries. This amendment to the resolution was supported by the Community and, although it does not constitute a binding legal document, it should be transposed into Community law.

Since the catch documentation scheme applies to all trade in Dissostichus spp, the term "import" should be defined. Regulation 1035/2001 should consequently be amended.