Proposal for a Council Regulation fixing for 2016 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks in the Black Sea

Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council on the Common Fisheries Policy seeks to ensure that living aquatic resources are exploited under sustainable economic, environmental and social conditions. One important tool in this respect is the annual fixing of fisheries opportunities in the form of total allowable catches (TACs), quotas and fishing effort limits.

Black Sea stocks exploited by Bulgaria and Romania are shared with non-EU countries, e.g. Turkey, Ukraine, Georgia and Russian Federation. There are however no TACs decided at regional level between EU and non-EU countries. Every year since 2008 the European Union (EU) has been fixing autonomous TACs for turbot and sprat stocks in order to help ensure that the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) rules are applied.

The objective of this proposal is to fix, for the commercially most important fish stocks in the Black Sea, the fishing opportunities for Member States for 2016.

EUR-Lex: COM(2015)579: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2015:579:FIN

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