Proposal for a Council Regulation fixing for 2015 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks in the Black Sea

Regulation (EC) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC 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.

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 2015.

The Communication from the Commission on the consultation on fishing opportunities for 2015 (COM(2014)388 final), outlines the background to the proposal. The scientific advice on fishing opportunities in the Black Sea in 2015 was delivered by the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) on 31 October 2014.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2014)719: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:719:FIN

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