PURPOSE: to amend Council Regulation 104/2000/EC on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation 1759/2006/EC amending Regulation 104/2000/EC on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products.

CONTENT: a new Regulation setting up the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) was approved in 2005. (Regulation 1290/2005/EC. For a summary see: CNS/2004/0164 .) The new Regulation replaces the 1999 Regulation on the financing of the common agricultural policy, to which certain aspects of Council Regulation 104/2000/EC on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products applied.

The purpose of this Regulation is to bring financial expenditure for fishery and aquaculture products in line with the new, 2005, EAGF Regulation. In summary, therefore, this Regulation amends Regulation 104/2000/EC by stating that:

- Expenditure incurred by the Member States under the terms of Regulation 104/2000/EC will be deemed to be expenditure referred to in provisions set out in the EAGF Regulation (1290/2005/EC).

- Financing will be granted to products from a stock or group of stocks only up to the limit of any quantities allocated to the Member State in question from the total volume of allowable catches for the stock or group of stocks in question.

APPLY: 16 October 2006.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 2 December 2006.

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Results of vote in Parliament

The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Philippe MORILLON (ALDE, FR), approving the Commission’s proposal on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products. The resolution was adopted by 450 votes in favour to 18 against with 12 abstentions.

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The committee adopted the report by its chairman, Philippe MORILLON (ALDE, FR), approving unamended - under the consultation procedure - the proposed regulation on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products.

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PURPOSE : to amend Council Regulation 104/2000/EC on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture product.

PROPOSED ACT : Council Regulation.

CONTENT : the expenditure incurred in the implementation of Council Regulation 104/2000/EC on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products has been financed by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) laid down in Council Regulation 1258/1999/EC on the financing of the common agricultural policy. The Commission has implemented the budget related to this expenditure by shared management with the

Member States.

The new European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) laid down in Council Regulation 1290/2005/EC on the financing of the common agricultural policy will replace the EAGGF Guarantee Section from 16 October 2006 in accordance with Article 3(2) of that Regulation. The EAGF will finance measures relating to fisheries markets by centralised management.

It is necessary to amend Council Regulation 104/2000/EC in order to enable the application of the EAGF as regards the financing of the expenditure relating to fisheries markets.

The Council is requested to adopt this proposal as soon as possible in order to ensure the continuity of the financing of the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products.

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Package of legislative proposals following the Interinstitutional Agreement on

Budgetary discipline and sound financial management

The conclusion on 17 May 2006 by the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament of the agreement on the 2007-2013 financial framework (Interinstitutional Agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial management – please refer to procedure ACI/2004/2099 ) marks a real success for Europe, providing a stable financial framework for the political priorities of the enlarged Union for the next seven years. It is now up to the institutions and Member States to ensure that the financial resources available are used and implemented as well as possible. Action at European level must contribute true added value to that taken at national, regional or local level and must have an optimum impact on each European player. The Commission is ready to play a full role in all these areas.

The agreement marks a decisive step forward towards the ultimate objective of providing the Union with operational programmes by the beginning of 2007. Work must now be continued on each legislative act. To this end, the Commission intends to continue to provide momentum and act as a facilitator, as it has been doing since the start of the negotiations.

As part of the negotiations on the 2007-2013 financial framework, in October 2005 the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission adopted a joint declaration in which they undertook to continue work on the legislative proposals currently being discussed and then, once the interinstitutional agreement had been adopted and on the basis of amended proposals by the Commission, to reach agreement on each of these proposals. Thus, in accordance with Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty and in order to facilitate this phase for each legislative act, the Commission has adopted a total of 30 proposals, 26 of which are amended and 4 new.

The proposals amended as a result of the IIA are as follows:

Programmes concerning the external policy of the Union and development cooperation:

Ø COD/2004/0219 ( European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument )

Ø COD/2004/0220 ( development co-operation and economic co-operation instrument )

Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows Programme (JHA):

Ø COD/2005/0046 ( European Refugee Fund )

Ø COD/2005/0047 ( External borders fund, 2007-2013 )

Ø COD/2005/0049 ( European Return Fund )

Fundamental Rights and Justice Programme (JHA):

Ø COD/2005/0037/A (DAPHNE )

Ø COD/2005/0037/B ( drugs prevention and information )

RDT Framework Programme and specific programmes :

Ø COD/2005/0043 ( RDT Framework Programme )

Ø CNS/2005/0044 (Nuclear Research Programme )

Ø CNS/2005/0184 ( Joint Research Centre - JRC )

Ø CNS/2005/0185 ( Transnational cooperation specific programme )

Ø CNS/2005/0186 ( Specific programme Ideas, frontier research )

Ø CNS/2005/0187 (S pecific programme supporting researchers )

Ø CNS/2005/0188 ( RDT Capacities specific programme )

Ø CNS/2005/0189 ( specific programme direct actions by the Joint Research Centre JRC )

Ø CNS/2005/0190 ( fusion energy, nuclear fission and radiation protection specific programme)

Employment and social cohesion Programme: COD/2004/0158

Programmes in the fields of youth and education:

Ø COD/2004/0152 ( Youth )

Ø COD/2004/0153 ( Education – lifelong learning )

Consumer Protection and Public Health Framework programme:

Ø COD/2005/0042/A ( Public health )

Ø COD/2005/0042/B ( Consumers )

Programme in the fields of energy, environment and transport :

Ø COD/2004/0218 ( LIFE+)

Ø COD/2004/0154 ( TransEuropean networks in the areas of energy and transport )

Ø CNS/2004/0221 ( Decommissioning of the Bohunice nuclear plant )

GALILEO ( radio-navigation by satellite ): COD/2004/0156

In terms of new proposals , the Commission has already submitted three in the area of agriculture and rural development policy and fisheries and aquaculture policy:

Ø CNS/2006/0081 ( fisheries and aquaculture )

Ø CNS/2006/0082 ( rural development )

Ø CNS/2006/0083 ( common agricultural policy ).

Certain legislative acts do not form part of this package of measures, in particular those on which political agreement has been reached since 17 May. For these measures, the Commission has played a full part in helping to bring about agreement between the arms of the legislative authority. The same applies to the acts for which conclusion of the interinstitutional agreement does not modify the Commission’s original proposal. For all the others, which are included in the package presented, the changes proposed by the Commission take account of the content of the interinstitutional agreement adopted, either in a simplified form, where the financial resources allocated to each programme must be adapted, or in a more detailed form where the structure or even the content of the act must be revised. It should also be noted that four of the amended proposals contain amendments already voted on by the European Parliament at first reading and that one proposal has been divided into two amended proposals in response to a request by the Council and the European Parliament, although Parliament has not yet proceeded to a first reading of this proposal.

Based on these amended proposals, the Commission calls on the European Parliament and the Council to continue their discussions of these proposals and conclude them as soon as possible in order to ensure that all the legal instruments are available in time for the effective launch of the programmes in January 2007.

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