Considerations on COM(2024)234 - Proposition de RÈGLEMENT DU CONSEIL relatif à la répartition des possibilités de pêche au titre du protocole (2024-2029) de mise en œuvre de l’accord de partenariat dans le secteur de la pêche entre la Communauté européenne et la République de Cabo Verde

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dossier COM(2024)234 - Proposition de RÈGLEMENT DU CONSEIL relatif à la répartition des possibilités de pêche au titre du protocole (2024-2029) de ...
document COM(2024)234
date June  6, 2024
 
(1) The Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Cabo Verde0 (hereinafter: ‘the Agreement’), approved by Council Regulation (EC) No 2027/20060, entered into force on 30 March 2007. The Protocol thereto setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Agreement expired on 19 May 2024.

(2) On 19 December 2023 the Council adopted a Decision0 authorising the Commission to open negotiations with Cabo Verde for the conclusion of a new Implementing Protocol (‘the Protocol’) to the Agreement.

(3) The Commission has negotiated, on behalf of the European Union, a new Implementing Protocol to that Partnership Agreement (hereinafter: ‘the Protocol’). As a result of those negotiations, the Protocol was initialled on 15 April 2024.

(4) In accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2024/...0, the Protocol was signed on […], subject to its conclusion at a later date.

(5) The fishing opportunities provided for in the Protocol for highly migratory fish stocks, established in accordance with the recommendations and resolutions adopted by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, should be allocated among the Member States for the entire period of its application.

(6) These measures are urgent given the economic importance of Union fishing activities in Cabo Verde’s fishing zone and the need to keep to a minimum any interruption of those activities. The Protocol will therefore apply on a provisional basis as from the date it is signed in order to allow Union vessels to carry out their fishing activity as soon as possible. This Regulation should therefore apply from the same date,