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24.10.2012 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union
L
294/3
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 976/2012
of 23 October 2012
amending Regulation (EU) No 165/2011 providing for deductions from certain mackerel quotas
allocated to Spain in 2011 and subsequent years on account of overfishing in 2010
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
overfishing in 2010, as operated by Regulation (EU) No
165/2011. The unutilised quantity amounts to 5 755
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
tonnes.
Union,
(4) Spain,
on
the
other
hand,
had
requested,
pursuant
to
Article 4(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of
6 May 1996 introducing additional conditions for year-
20 November 2009 establishing a Community control system
to-year management of TACs and quotas ( 3 ) that, within
for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries
the limits indicated in that Regulation, part of their
policy, amending Regulations (EC) No 847/96, (EC) No
mackerel fishing quota for 2011 be withheld and trans
2371/2002, (EC) No 811/2004, (EC) No 768/2005, (EC) No
ferred to the following year.
2115/2005, (EC) No 2166/2005, (EC) No 388/2006, (EC) No
509/2007, (EC) No 676/2007, (EC) No 1098/2007, (EC) No
(5) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No
1300/2008, (EC) No 1342/2008 and repealing Regulations
319/2012 of 13 April 2012 adding to the 2012
(EEC) No 2847/93, (EC) No 1627/94 and (EC) No
fishing quotas certain quantities withheld in the year
1966/2006 ( 1 ), and in particular Article 105(1) and (2) thereof,
2011 pursuant to Article 4(2) of Council Regulation
(EC) No 847/96 ( 4 ) transferred 2 511 tonnes of Spain’s
Whereas:
2011 unutilised mackerel fishing quota to the year 2012.
Hence, the remaining 2011 unutilised tonnage amounts
(1) Commission Regulation (EU) No 165/2011 of
to 3 244.
22 February 2011 providing for deductions from
(6) The
amount
of
3
244
tonnes
should
be
used
to
certain mackerel quotas allocated to Spain in 2011 and
reschedule the deductions foreseen in Regulation (EU)
subsequent years on account of overfishing in 2010 ( 2 )
No 165/2011. This quantity should be added to the
establishes that the fishing quota for mackerel (Scomber
2011 deduction amount, which totalizes 7 744, and
scombrus) in zone VIIIc, IX and X, Union waters of
simultaneously subtracted from the deduction amount
CECAF 34.1.1, (hereinafter, ‘mackerel fishing quota’)
of subsequent years.
allocated to Spain in the year 2011 is to be reduced
by 4 500 tonnes.
(7) Spain
requested
that
the
unutilised
tonnage
be
subtracted
from the 2013 and 2014 deduction amounts. This is
(2) Regulation
(EU)
No
165/2011
also
provides
that
the
compatible with the rationale expressed in recital 7 of
mackerel fishing quota that may be allocated to Spain
Regulation (EU) No 165/2011. Regulation (EU) No
in the years 2012 to 2015 and, where appropriate, in
165/2011 should, therefore, be amended accordingly,
subsequent years is to be reduced by, respectively, 5 500
tonnes in 2012, 9 748 tonnes in 2013 and 9 747 tonnes
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
in 2014 and 2015 and, where appropriate, in subsequent
Article 1
years.
The Annex to Regulation (EU) No 165/2011 is replaced by the
(3) On
21
December
2011,
the
Spanish
authorities
informed text in the Annex to this Regulation.
the Commission that their mackerel fishing quota for the
Article 2
year 2011 had not been fully used and requested the
Commission to take the unutilised tonnage into
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
account for the purpose of paying back the mackerel
of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 23 October 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 1.
( 3 ) OJ L 115, 9.5.1996, p. 3.
( 2 ) OJ L 48, 23.2.2011, p. 11.
( 4 ) OJ L 104, 14.4.2012, p. 2.

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L 294/4
ANNEX
‘ANNEX
Multiplying factor of
Article 105(2) of
Deduction 2015
EN
Stock
Initial quota
Adapted quota
Established catches Difference quota-catches
and, where

2010 (*)
2010
2010
(overfishing)
Regulation (EC) No Deduction 2011 Deduction
2012 Deduction
2013 Deduction
2014
1224/2009
appropriate, for
(overfishing (*) 2)
subsequent years
MAC/8C3411 27
919 24
604 44
225 –
19
621 – 39 242 7
744 5
500 8
126 8
125 9
747
(79,7 % of 2010
quota)
(*) Regulation (EU) No 53/2010’.
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