PURPOSE: to repeal Regulation 3690/93/EC establishing a Community system laying down rules for the minimum information to be contained in fishing licences.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation 700/2006/EC repealing Regulation 3690/93/EC establishing a Community system laying down rules for the minimum information to be contained in fishing licences.

CONTENT: Regulation 3690/93 is based on Council Regulation 3760/92 establishing a Community system for fisheries and aquaculture, which has been replaced by Council Regulation 2371/2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the common fisheries policy.

The references and provisions contained in Regulation 3690/93 are no longer compatible with this new Regulation which establishes new rules on the management of fishing capacity as expressed in fishing licences.

In August 2005 the Commission adopted Regulation 1281/2005 on the management of fishing licences and the minimal information to be contained therein (OJ L 203 p.3 04.08.2005). It will apply from the date of repeal of Regulation 3690/93.

Regulation 3690/93 has therefore been repealed.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 16 May 2006.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Iles BRAGHETTO (EPP-ED, IT) and made a few amendments to the proposal. (Please see the summary of 23/02/2006.)

The committee adopted the report by Iles BRAGHETTO (EPP-ED, IT) approving the proposed new Council regulation on the minimum information to be contained in fishing licences, subject to a few amendments under the consultation procedure.

MEPs adopted new recitals pointing out that a number of stocks in Community waters have continued to decline and that existing conservation measures must be improved and extended. The aim should be to ensure rational and responsible exploitation of living aquatic resources, while recognising "the interest of the fisheries sector in its long-term development and its economic and social conditions and the interest of consumers, taking into account the biological constraints with due respect for the marine eco-system". One of the recitals also specified that the new regulation clarifies the role of the fishing licence in the management of fleet capacity.

PURPOSE: To lay down new Community based rules for the minimum information to be contained in fishing licenses and to repeal Regulation 3690/93.

PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation.

CONTENT: The Community system laying down rules for the minimum information needed in fishing licenses is encapsulated in Regulation 3690/93. In 2002 a new Regulation on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources was agreed, the content of which made the 1993 fishing licenses Regulation obsolete. The purpose of this proposal, therefore, is to repeal Regulation 3690/93 and to translate references to it to Regulation 1281/2005 in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex to the proposed Regulation. This proposal has already had a favourable opinion from the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture in July 2005.

PURPOSE: To lay down new Community based rules for the minimum information to be contained in fishing licenses and to repeal Regulation 3690/93.

PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation.

CONTENT: The Community system laying down rules for the minimum information needed in fishing licenses is encapsulated in Regulation 3690/93. In 2002 a new Regulation on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources was agreed, the content of which made the 1993 fishing licenses Regulation obsolete. The purpose of this proposal, therefore, is to repeal Regulation 3690/93 and to translate references to it to Regulation 1281/2005 in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex to the proposed Regulation. This proposal has already had a favourable opinion from the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture in July 2005.