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document COM(2024)703
date September  4, 2024
Annex to the staff working document accompanying this report.

17 As the Council decided to keep the targeted fishery for central herring open, the question about the calculation methodology for this TAC became irrelevant.

18 Regulation (EU) 2020/1781 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2020 amending Regulation (EU) 2016/1139 as regards fishing capacity reduction in the Baltic Sea, and Regulation (EU) No 508/2014 as regards permanent cessation of fishing activities for fleets fishing for eastern Baltic cod, western Baltic cod and western Baltic herring (OJ L 400, 30.11.2020, p. 1).

19 Regulation (EU) 2020/1781, Article 1(1); cf. footnote 18.

20 Cf. footnote 6, p. 8, and footnote 8, p. 8.

21 Cf. footnote 10.

22 Regulation (EU) 2023/2842 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 November 2023 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 and amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1967/2006 and (EC) No 1005/2008 and Regulations (EU) 2016/1139, (EU) 2017/2403 and (EU) 2019/473 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards fisheries control (OJ L, 2023/2842, 20.12.2023).

23 Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for the community action in the field of marine environmental policy (OJ 164, 25.6.2008, p. 19).

24 Fishing activities also have an impact on the descriptors relating to: biological diversity (1); the food web (4); sea-floor integrity (6); and marine litter (10). The contribution of fishing to the other descriptors is at best indirect and/or not substantial: introduction of non-indigenous species (2), human-induced eutrophication (5), hydrographical conditions (7), level of contaminants in the sea (8), level of contaminants in fish and seafood (9), introduction of energy including underwater noise (11).

25 It reads ‘The populations of all commercially exploited fish and shellfish are within safe biological limits, exhibiting a population age and size distribution that is indicative of a healthy stock.’

26 ICES Advice 2024 – sr.2024.01 (https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.advice.25265284).

27 Cf. footnote 8, p. 19.

28 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/303 of 15 December 2021 amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 as regards measures to reduce incidental catches of the resident population of the Baltic Proper harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the Baltic Sea (OJ L 46, 25.2.2022, p. 67).

29 Cf. footnote 6, p. 1, and footnote 8, p. 3.

30 Agreement between the European Community and the Government of the Russian Federation on cooperation in fisheries and the conservation of the living marine resources in the Baltic Sea (OJ L 129, 28.5.2009, p.2), notably article 14.

31 This was the regional fisheries management organisation for the Baltic Sea fish stocks.

32Cf. footnote 11, pp 103-109, 112-115. It should be noted that the report covers all fisheries, not only the fisheries on the stocks covered by the MAP, which however represent about 95% of all catches in the Baltic Sea.

33 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1417 of 22 June 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1139 concerning the specifications for the landing obligation as regards salmon in the Baltic Sea for the period 2021-2023 (OJ L 305, 31.8.2021, p. 3); Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1296 of 28 February 2024 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1139 concerning an exemption from the application of the landing obligation as regards salmon in the Baltic Sea for the period 2024-2026 (OJ L 2024/1296, 7.5.2024).

34 Article 6 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/306 of 18 December 2017 laying down specifications for the implementation of the landing obligation as regards cod and plaice in Baltic Sea fisheries (OJ L 60, 2.3.2018, p. 1).

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