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Document 32003R2024

    Commission Regulation (EC) No 2024/2003 of 17 November 2003 prohibiting fishing for haddock by vessels flying the flag of Sweden

    OJ L 299, 18.11.2003, p. 6–6 (ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI, SV)

    Legal status of the document No longer in force, Date of end of validity: 31/12/2003

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2003/2024/oj

    32003R2024

    Commission Regulation (EC) No 2024/2003 of 17 November 2003 prohibiting fishing for haddock by vessels flying the flag of Sweden

    Official Journal L 299 , 18/11/2003 P. 0006 - 0006


    Commission Regulation (EC) No 2024/2003

    of 17 November 2003

    prohibiting fishing for haddock by vessels flying the flag of Sweden

    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 806/2003(2), and in particular Article 21(3) thereof,

    Whereas:

    (1) Council Regulation (EC) No 2341/2002 of 20 December 2002 fixing for 2003 the fishing opportunities and associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Community waters and, for Community vessels, in waters where catch limitations are required(3), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1754/2003(4), lays down quotas for haddock for 2003.

    (2) In order to ensure compliance with the provisions relating to the quantity limits on catches of stocks subject to quotas, the Commission must fix the date by which catches made by vessels flying the flag of a Member State are deemed to have exhausted the quota allocated.

    (3) According to the information received by the Commission, catches of haddock in the waters of ICES divisions Skagerrak and Kattegat IIIb,c,d (EC waters), by vessels flying the flag of Sweden or registered in Sweden have exhausted the quota allocated for 2003. Sweden has prohibited fishing for this stock from 11 August 2003. This date should be adopted in this Regulation also,

    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

    Article 1

    Catches of haddock in the waters of ICES divisions Skagerrak and Kattegat IIIb,c,d (EC waters), by vessels flying the flag of Sweden or registered in Sweden are hereby deemed to have exhausted the quota allocated to Sweden for 2003.

    Fishing for haddock in the waters of ICES divisions Skagerrak and Kattegat IIIb,c,d (EC waters), by vessels flying the flag of Sweden or registered in Sweden is hereby prohibited, as are the retention on board, transhipment and landing of this stock caught by the above vessels after the date of application of this Regulation.

    Article 2

    This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

    It shall apply from 11 August 2003.

    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

    Done at Brussels, 17 November 2003.

    For the Commission

    Jörgen Holmquist

    Director-General for Fisheries

    (1) OJ L 261, 20.10.1993, p. 1.

    (2) OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1.

    (3) OJ L 356, 31.12.2002, p. 12.

    (4) OJ L 252, 4.10.2003, p. 1.

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