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Official Journal of the European Union
22.11.2013
REGULATIONS
COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 1180/2013
of 19 November 2013
fixing for 2014 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks applicable
in the Baltic Sea
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
with the rules laid down in those plans. Consequently,
catch limits and fishing effort limits for the cod stocks in
the Baltic Sea should be established in accordance with
the rules laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
1098/2007 ( 2 ) (‘the Baltic Sea Cod Plan’).
Union, and in particular Article 43(3) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
(5)
In the light of the scientific advice, flexibility in the
management of the fishing effort for cod stocks in the
Baltic Sea can be introduced without jeopardising the
objectives of the Baltic Sea Cod Plan and without
Whereas:
causing an increase in fishing mortality. Such flexibility
would allow for more efficient management of the
fishing effort where quotas are not allocated equally
among the fleet of a Member State and would facilitate
(1) Council
Regulation
(EC)
No
2371/2002
( 1 ) requires that
swift reactions to quota exchanges. A Member State
measures governing access to waters and resources and
should, therefore, be allowed to allocate to vessels
the sustainable pursuit of fishing activities be established
flying its flag additional days absent from port where
taking into account the scientific, technical and economic
an equal amount of days absent from port is
advice available and, in particular, the report drawn up
withdrawn from other vessels flying its flag.
by the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for
Fisheries (STECF) as well as in the light of any advice
received from regional advisory councils.
(6) The
use
of
fishing
opportunities
as
set
out
in
this
Regu
lation should be subject to Council Regulation (EC) No
1224/2009 (
(2) It
is
incumbent
upon
the
Council
to
adopt
measures
on

3 ), and in particular provisions concerning
the fixing and allocation of fishing opportunities by
the recording of catches and fishing effort and the
fishery or group of fisheries, including certain conditions
information on data on the exhaustion of fishing oppor
functionally linked thereto, as appropriate. Fishing oppor
tunities. It is therefore necessary to specify the codes
tunities should be distributed among Member States in
relating to landings of stocks subject to this Regulation
such a way as to assure each Member State relative
which are to be used by the Member States when
stability of fishing activities for each stock or fishery
sending data to the Commission.
with due regard to the objectives of the Common
Fisheries Policy established in Regulation (EC) No
2371/2002.
(7) In
accordance
with
Council
Regulation
(EC)
No
847/96 ( 4 ), the stocks that are subject to the various
measures referred to therein must be identified.
(3) The
total
allowable
catches
(TACs)
should
be
established
on the basis of the scientific advice available, taking into
( 2 ) Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 of 18 September 2007
account biological and socioeconomic aspects whilst
establishing a multiannual plan for the cod stocks in the Baltic
ensuring fair treatment between fishing sectors, as well
Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks, amending Regulation
as in the light of opinions expressed during the consul
(EEC) No 2847/93 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 779/97 (OJ
L 248, 22.9.2007, p. 1).
tation of stakeholders, in particular at meetings with the
( 3 ) Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009
regional advisory councils concerned.
establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance
with the rules of the common fisheries policy, amending Regulations
(EC) No 847/96, (EC) No 2371/2002, (EC) No 811/2004, (EC) No
768/2005, (EC) No 2115/2005, (EC) No 2166/2005, (EC) No
(4) For
stocks
subject
to
specific
multiannual
plans,
the
388/2006, (EC) No 509/2007, (EC) No 676/2007, (EC) No
fishing opportunities should be established in accordance
1098/2007, (EC) No 1300/2008, (EC) No 1342/2008 and
repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2847/93, (EC) No 1627/94 and
(EC) No 1966/2006 (OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 1).
( 1 ) Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 of 20 December 2002 on
( 4 ) Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 of 6 May 1996 introducing
the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources
additional conditions for year-to-year management of TACs and
under the Common Fisheries Policy (OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 59).
quotas (OJ L 115, 9.5.1996, p. 3).

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the
European
Union
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(8) In
order
to
avoid
interruption
of
fishing
activities
and
to
Article 5
ensure the livelihood of Union fishermen, it is important
to open the fisheries covered by this Regulation as from
Special provisions on allocations
1 January 2014. For reasons of urgency, this Regulation
1. The
allocation
of
fishing
opportunities
among
Member
should enter into force immediately after its publication,
States, as set out in this Regulation, shall be without prejudice
to:
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
CHAPTER I
(a) exchanges made pursuant to Article 20(5) of Regulation
(EC) No 2371/2002;
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
(b) reallocations made pursuant to Article 37 of Regulation (EC)
Subject matter
No 1224/2009;
This Regulation fixes the fishing opportunities for certain fish
stocks and groups of fish stocks in the Baltic Sea for 2014.
(c) additional landings allowed under Article 3 of Regulation
(EC) No 847/96;
Article 2
Scope
(d) quantities withheld in accordance with Article 4 of Regu
This Regulation applies to Union vessels operating in the Baltic
lation (EC) No 847/96;
Sea.
Article 3
(e) deductions made pursuant to Articles 37, 105, 106 and
Definitions
107 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions
apply:
2. Except
where
otherwise
specified
in
Annex
I
to
this
Regu
lation, Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall apply to
(a) ‘International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
stocks subject to a precautionary TAC and Article 3(2) and (3)
zones’ means the geographical areas specified in Annex I to
and Article 4 of that Regulation shall apply to stocks subject to
Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005 ( 1 );
an analytical TAC.
(b) ‘Baltic Sea’ means ICES Subdivisions 22-32;
Article 6
(c) ‘Union vessel’ means a fishing vessel flying the flag of a
Conditions for landing catches and by-catches
Member State and registered in the Union;
Fish from stocks for which catch limits are established shall be
retained on board or landed only if the catches and by-catches
(d) ‘total allowable catch’ (TAC) means the quantity that can be
have been taken by vessels of a Member State having a quota
taken from each stock each year;
and that quota is not exhausted.
(e) ‘quota’ means a proportion of the TAC allocated to the
Union, a Member State or a third country;
Article 7
Fishing effort limits
(f) ‘day absent from port’ means any continuous period of 24
hours or part thereof during which a vessel is not present in
1. Fishing
effort
limits
are
set
out
in
Annex
II.
a port.
CHAPTER II
2. The
limits
referred
to
in
paragraph
1
shall
also
apply
to
ICES subdivisions 27 and 28.2, unless the Commission has
FISHING OPPORTUNITIES
taken a decision in accordance with Article 29(2) of Regulation
Article 4
(EC) No 1098/2007 to exclude those subdivisions from the
restrictions provided for in Article 8(1)(b), Article 8(3), (4)
TACs and allocations
and (5) and Article 13 of that Regulation.
The TACs, the quotas and the conditions functionally linked
thereto, where appropriate, are set out in Annex I.
3. The
limits
referred
to
in
paragraph
1
shall
not
apply
to
ICES subdivision 28.1, unless the Commission has taken a
( 1 ) Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005 of 21 December 2005 for
decision in accordance with Article 29(4) of Regulation (EC)
the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures in
No 1098/2007 that the restrictions provided for in
the Baltic Sea, the Belts and the Sound, amending Regulation (EC)
No 1434/98 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 88/98 (OJ L 349,
Article 8(1)(b)and Article 8(3), (4) and (5) of Regulation (EC)
31.12.2005, p. 1).
No 1098/2007 shall apply to that subdivision.

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CHAPTER III
FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 8
Data transmission
When Member States send the Commission data relating to landings of quantities of stocks caught, pursuant
to Articles 33 and 34 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, they shall use the stock codes set out in Annex I
to this Regulation.
Article 9
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2014.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 19 November 2013.
For the Council
The President
L. LINKEVIIUS

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ANNEX I
TACs APPLICABLE TO UNION VESSELS IN AREAS WHERE TACs EXIST BY SPECIES AND BY AREA
The following tables set out the TACs and quotas (in tonnes live weight, except where otherwise specified) by stock, and
conditions functionally linked thereto, where appropriate.
The references to fishing zones are references to ICES zones, unless otherwise specified.
The fish stocks are referred to following the alphabetical order of the Latin names of the species.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following comparative table of Latin names and common names is provided:
Scientific name Alpha-3
code Common
name
Clupea harengus HER Herring
Gadus morhua COD Cod
Pleuronectes platessa PLE Plaice
Salmo salar SAL Atlantic
salmon
Sprattus sprattus SPR Sprat
Species: Herring
Zone: subdivisions
30-31
Clupea harengus
HER/3D30.; HER/3D31.
Finland 112
977
Sweden 24
823
Union 137
800
TAC
Analytical TAC
137
800
Species: Herring
Zone: subdivisions
22-24
Clupea harengus
HER/3B23.; HER/3C22.; HER/3D24.
Denmark 2
769
Germany 10
900
Finland
1
Poland 2
570
Sweden 3
514
Union 19
754
TAC
Analytical TAC
19
754
Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not
apply.
Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not
apply.

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Species: Herring
Zone: Union
waters
of
subdivisions
25-27,
28.2,
29
and
32
Clupea harengus
HER/3D25.; HER/3D26.; HER/3D27.; HER/3D28.2;
HER/3D29.; HER/3D32.
Denmark 2
480
Germany 658
Estonia 12
664
Finland 24
721
Latvia 3
125
Lithuania 3
291
Poland 28
085
Sweden 37
701
Union 112
725
TAC
Analytical TAC
Not
relevant

Species: Herring
Zone: subdivision
28.1
Clupea harengus
HER/03D.RG
Estonia 14
186
Latvia 16
534
Union 30
720
TAC
Analytical TAC
30
720
Species: Cod
Zone: Union
waters
of
subdivisions
25-32
Gadus morhua
COD/3D25.; COD/3D26.; COD/3D27.; COD/3D28.;
COD/3D29.; COD/3D30.; COD/3D31.; COD/3D32.
Denmark 15
147
Germany 6
025
Estonia 1
476
Finland 1
159
Latvia 5
632
Lithuania 3
710
Poland 17
440
Sweden 15
345
Union 65
934
TAC
Analytical TAC
Not
relevant

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Species: Cod
Zone: subdivisions
22-24
Gadus morhua
COD/3B23.; COD/3C22.; COD/3D24.
Denmark 7
436
Germany 3
636
Estonia 165
Finland 146
Latvia 615
Lithuania 399
Poland 1
990
Sweden 2
650
Union 17
037
TAC
Analytical TAC
17
037
Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not
apply.
Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not
apply.
Species: Plaice
Zone: Union
waters
of
subdivisions
22-32
Pleuronectes platessa
PLE/3B23.; PLE/3C22.; PLE/3D24.; PLE/3D25.;
PLE/3D26.; PLE/3D27.; PLE/3D28.; PLE/3D29.;
PLE/3D30.; PLE/3D31.; PLE/3D32.
Denmark 2
443
Germany 271
Poland 511
Sweden 184
Union 3
409
TAC
Precautionary TAC
3
409

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Species: Atlantic
salmon
Zone: Union
waters
of
subdivisions
22-31
Salmo salar
SAL/3B23.; SAL/3C22.; SAL/3D24.; SAL/3D25.;
SAL/3D26.; SAL/3D27.; SAL/3D28.; SAL/3D29.;
SAL/3D30.; SAL/3D31.
Denmark 22
087
( 1 )
Germany 2
457
( 1 )
Estonia 2
245
( 1 )
Finland 27
541
( 1 )
Latvia 14
049
( 1 )
Lithuania 1
651
( 1 )
Poland 6
700
( 1 )
Sweden 29
857
( 1 )
Union
106 587 ( 1 )
TAC
Analytical TAC
Not
relevant
Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not
apply.
Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not
apply.
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( 1 ) Expressed by number of individual fish.
Species: Atlantic
salmon
Zone: Union
waters
of
subdivision
32
Salmo salar
SAL/3D32.
Estonia 1
344
( 1 )
Finland 11
762
( 1 )
Union 13
106
( 1 )
TAC
Precautionary TAC
Not
relevant

______________
( 1 ) Expressed by number of individual fish.

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Species: Sprat
Zone: Union
waters
of
subdivisions
22-32
Sprattus sprattus
SPR/3B23.; SPR/3C22.; SPR/3D24.; SPR/3D25.;
SPR/3D26.; SPR/3D27.; SPR/3D28.; SPR/3D29.;
SPR/3D30.; SPR/3D31.; SPR/3D32.
Denmark 23
672
( 1 )
Germany 14
997
( 1 )
Estonia 27
489
( 1 )
Finland 12
392
( 1 )
Latvia 33
200
( 1 )
Lithuania 12
010
( 1 )
Poland 70
456
( 1 )
Sweden 45
763
( 1 )
Union 239
979
TAC
Analytical TAC
Not
relevant

______________
( 1 ) At least 92 % of landings counted against the quota must be of sprat. By-catches of herring are to be counted against the remaining
8 % of the quota (HER/*3BCDC).

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ANNEX II
FISHING EFFORT LIMITS
1. Member States shall allocate the right to vessels flying their flag and fishing with trawls, Danish seines or similar gear
of a mesh size equal to, or larger than, 90 mm, with gillnets, entangling nets or trammel nets of a mesh size equal to,
or larger than, 90 mm, with bottom set lines, longlines except drifting lines, handlines and jigging equipment, to be up
to:
(a) 147 days absent from port in ICES subdivisions 22-24, with the exception of the period from 1 to 30 April when
Article 8(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 applies; and
(b) 146 days absent from port in ICES subdivisions 25-28, with the exception of the period from 1 July to 31 August
when Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1098/2007 applies.
2. The maximum number of days absent from port per year for which a vessel may be present within the two areas
referred to in point 1(a) and (b) fishing with the gear specified in point 1 may not exceed the maximum number of
days absent from port allocated for one of those two areas.
3. By way of derogation from points 1 and 2, and where efficient management of fishing opportunities so requires, a
Member State may allocate to vessels flying its flag the right to additional days absent from port where an equal
amount of days absent from port is withdrawn from other vessels flying its flag that are subject to effort restriction in
the same area and where the capacity, in terms of kW, of each of the donor vessels is equal to, or larger than, that of
the receiving vessels. The number of receiving vessels may not exceed 15 % of the total number of vessels of the
Member State concerned, as indicated in point 1.

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