COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 520/2014
of 16 May 2014
adding to the 2014 fishing quotas certain quantities withheld in the year 2013 pursuant to Article 4(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 of 6 May 1996 introducing additional conditions for year-to-year management of TACs and quotas (1), and in particular Article 4(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
According to Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96, Member States may ask the Commission, before 31 October of the year of application of a fishing quota allocated to them, to withhold a maximum of 10 % of that quota to be transferred to the following year. The Commission is to add to the relevant quota the quantity withheld.
(2)
Council Regulations (EU) No 1262/2012 (2), (EU) No 1088/2012 (3), (EU) No 1261/2012 (4), (EU) No 39/2013 (5) and (EU) No 40/2013 (6) fix fishing quotas for certain stocks for 2013 and specify which stocks may be subject to the measures provided for in Regulation (EC) No 847/96.
(3)
Council Regulations (EU) No 1262/2012, (EU) No 1180/2013 (7), (EU) No 24/2014 (8), and (EU) No 43/2014 (9) fix fishing quotas for certain stocks for 2014.
(4)
Certain Member States have requested, before 31 October of 2013, pursuant to Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96, that part of their quotas for 2013 be withheld and transferred to the following year. Within the limits indicated in that Regulation, the quantities withheld should be added to the quotas for 2014.
(5)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The fishing quotas fixed for 2014 in Regulations (EU) No 1262/2012, (EU) No 1180/2013, (EU) No 24/2014 and (EU) No 43/2014 are increased as set out in the Annex.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 16 May 2014.