Annexes to COM(2016)647 - Communication to the EP on the Council's position on amending Regulation 1342/2008 establishing a long-term plan for cod stocks and the fisheries exploiting those stocks - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2016)647 - Communication to the EP on the Council's position on amending Regulation 1342/2008 establishing a long-term plan for cod ... |
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| document | COM(2016)647  |
| date | September 30, 2016 |
3.2. Amendments by the European Parliament at first reading:
During the negotiations, EP has revised its position. Therefore, the first reading position of EP taken on 11 June 2013 was considered as being less relevant for the negotiations.
3.3. Provisions introduced by the Council and Commission position in this regard:
The Council has significantly amended the text and reduced it to very few remaining provisions (except definitions, closing Articles, etc.):
• Article 5 on objectives, referring to the MSY objective in line with the Basic Regulation and the agreed Baltic MAP;
• Article 6 on minimum and precautionary measures, referring to the need to take into account "appropriate minimum and precautionary biomass levels" in line with the Basic Regulation, without specifying these levels;
• Article 9 on setting TACs in data poor conditions, referring to the precautionary approach set out in the Basic Regulation, without setting out any detailed rules;
• Former Article 14 was kept with minor changes. The Article sets out an obligation for Member States to make sure that in each of the areas covered by the plan, the fishing capacity does not exceed the fishing capacity that could be observed in 2006 or 2007;
• Article 25 (unchanged): obligation to land cod in designated ports;
• Article 33 (unchanged): Assistance under the EFF/EMFF: enabling payments from the EMFF.
The compromise text departs significantly from the original 2012 COM proposal but it is in line with the new rules set in the new Basic Regulation and Commission's new approach for the multiannual plans. The Commission can accept all changes.
4. Conclusion
The legal services and lawyer linguists of European Parliament and Council were mandated to make all the relevant adjustments to the text. The resulting document therefore represents the political agreement reached by the co-legislators on 29 July 2016.