PURPOSE: recast of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2018/93 on the submission of catch and activity statistics by Member States fishing in the Northwest Atlantic
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EC) No 217/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the submission of catch and activity statistics by Member States fishing in the north-west Atlantic (recast).
CONTENT: the codification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2018/93 was initiated by the Commission. Before codification was completed, Council Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission was amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, which introduced a regulatory procedure with scrutiny. In accordance with the joint statement of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on Decision 2006/512/EC, for this new procedure to be applicable to instruments adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure which are already in force, those instruments must be adjusted in accordance with the applicable procedures.
Accordingly, this Regulation recasts in order to incorporate the amendments necessary for the adjustment to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.
On comitology, the Regulation states that power should be conferred on the Commission to adapt the lists of species and statistical fishing regions, descriptions of those regions, and measures, codes and definitions applied to fishing activity, fishing gears, vessel sizes and methods of fishing. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, they should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.
ENTRY INTO FORCE : 20/04/2009.