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Document 32024R0337

Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/337 of 12 January 2024 establishing a fisheries closure for jack mackerel in SPRFMO Convention area for vessels flying the flag of a Member State of the European Union

C/2024/256

OJ L, 2024/337, 17.1.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/337/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

Legal status of the document No longer in force, Date of end of validity: 31/12/2023

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/337/oj

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Official Journal
of the European Union

EN

Series L


2024/337

17.1.2024

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2024/337

of 12 January 2024

establishing a fisheries closure for jack mackerel in SPRFMO Convention area for vessels flying the flag of a Member State of the European Union

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009 establishing a Union control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy (1), and in particular Article 36(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Council Regulation (EU) 2023/194 (2) lays down quotas for 2023.

(2)

According to the information received by the Commission, catches of the stock of jack mackerel in SPRFMO area by vessels flying the flag of or registered in a Member State of the European Union have exhausted the quota allocated for 2023.

(3)

It is therefore necessary to prohibit certain fishing activities for that stock,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Quota exhaustion

The fishing quota allocated for 2023 to Member States of the European Union for the stock of jack mackerel in SPRFMO Convention area referred to in the Annex shall be deemed to be exhausted from the date set out in that Annex.

Article 2

Prohibitions

Fishing activities for the stock referred to in Article 1 by vessels flying the flag of or registered in a Member State of the European Union shall be prohibited from the date set out in the Annex. In particular it shall be prohibited to retain on board, relocate, tranship or land fish from that stock caught by those vessels after that date.

Article 3

Entry into force

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

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

Done at Brussels, 12 January 2024.

For the Commission,

On behalf of the President,

Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS

Member of the Commission


(1)   OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 1.

(2)  Council Regulation (EU) 2023/194 of 30 January 2023 fixing for 2023 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters, as well as fixing for 2023 and 2024 such fishing opportunities for certain deep-sea fish stocks (OJ L 28, 31.1.2023, p. 1).


ANNEX

No

22/TQ194

Member State

European Union (All Member States)

Stock

CJM/SPRFMO

Species

Jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi)

Zone

SPRFMO Convention area

Closing date

20 December 2023


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/337/oj

ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)


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