(1)

Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003 provides for the adoption of a Regulation fixing the maximum annual fishing effort for each Member State and for each area and fishery defined in Articles 3 and 6 of that Regulation. Accordingly, Council Regulation (EC) No 1415/2004 (2) established the maximum annual fishing effort for those fishing areas and fisheries.

(2)

According to Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003 the Commission may, upon request of a Member State, shift the fishing effort between areas or divisions in order to allow the Member State to fully take up its fishing possibilities.

(3)

On 2 June 2014, the United Kingdom requested the Commission to transfer 30 000 kW days from ICES area VII to ICES area VIII. On 16 June 2014, the United Kingdom submitted additional information on the utilisation of quotas and the operation of vessels in ICES area VIII. The information provided by the United Kingdom warrants the requested shift of fishing effort between the areas concerned.

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1415/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,

(1)

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 lays down, pursuant to the outcome of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations, the criteria whereby the Commission fixes the standard values for imports from third countries, in respect of the products and periods stipulated in Annex XVI, Part A thereto.

(2)

The standard import value is calculated each working day, in accordance with Article 136(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, taking into account variable daily data. Therefore this Regulation should enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,

(1)

The fourth indent of Article 127(2) of the Treaty and the fourth indent of Article 3.1 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank (hereinafter the ‘Statute of the ESCB’) empower the Eurosystem to promote the smooth operation of payment systems.

(2)

The Eurosystem promotes the smooth operation of payment systems, inter alia, by conducting oversight.

(3)

The European Central Bank (ECB) has implemented the principles for financial market infrastructures issued by the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) (hereinafter the ‘CPSS-IOSCO principles’), which harmonise and strengthen existing international oversight standards for, inter alia, systemically important payment systems (SIPS), by means of Regulation (EU) No 795/2014 (ECB/2014/28).

(4)

In order to carry out the identification exercise pursuant to Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) No 795/2014 (ECB/2014/28) for TARGET2, the Governing Council is verifying that the criterion mentioned in point (a) of Article 1(3) of Regulation (EU) No 795/2014 (ECB/2014/28) is fulfilled, and two out of four of the criteria mentioned in point (b) of Article 1(3) of Regulation (EU) No 795/2014 (ECB/2014/28) are fulfilled, as described in the Annex to this Decision. For the verification exercise on which this Decision is based, public data for the calendar year 2012 has been used, combined with responses to ECB surveys.

(5)

Under Guideline ECB/2012/27 (2) TARGET2 has a decentralised structure linking together a multiplicity of payment systems. The TARGET2 component systems are harmonised to the greatest extent possible, with certain exceptions in the event of national law constraints. TARGET2 is also characterised by a single technical platform called the Single Shared Platform. The Governing Council has final competence in relation to TARGET2 and safeguards its public function: this governance arrangement is reflected in the oversight of TARGET2 component systems,

(1)

Article 9 of the Statutes and rules of procedure of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise (CDE), adopted by Decision No 8/2005 of the ACP EC Committee of Ambassadors, provides that the Committee of Ambassadors shall appoint the members of the Executive Board, for a maximum period of five years.

(2)

The term of office of the three EU members of the Executive Board of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise, appointed by Decision No 3/2013 of the ACP EU Committee of Ambassadors (5), which was extended by Decision No 1/2014 of the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors (6), will expire on 6 September 2014,

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Mr Jacek ADAMSKI

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Mr Martin BENKO

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Ms Nicole BOLLEN

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Mr John Atkins ARUHURI

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Ms Maria MACHAILO-ELLIS

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Mr Félix MOUKO