Considerations on COM(2007)760 - Submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in certain areas other than those of the North Atlantic (Recast) - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2007)760 - Submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in certain areas other than those of the North Atlantic ... |
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| document | COM(2007)760  |
| date | March 11, 2009 |
| (2) | The European Community has acquired membership of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). |
| (3) | The protocol established between the Council of the European Union and the Commission of the European Communities provides for the Commission to supply the FAO with the requested statistics. |
| (4) | In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity the objectives of the proposed action can only be achieved on the basis of a Community legal act because only the Commission can coordinate the necessary harmonisation of the statistical information at Community level while the collection of fishery statistics and the necessary infrastructure to process and monitor the reliability of those statistics are first and foremost the responsibility of the Member States. |
| (5) | Several Member States have requested submission of data in a different form or through a different medium from that specified in Annex V (the equivalent of the Statlant questionnaires). |
| (6) | The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (4). |
| (7) | In particular, the Commission should be empowered to adapt the lists of statistical fishing areas, or subdivisions thereof, and species. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC, |