PURPOSE: recast of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3880/91 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in the north-east Atlantic.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in the north-east Atlantic (recast).
CONTENT: the codification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3880/91 has been initiated by the Commission, and a relevant proposal has been submitted to the legislative authority (see COD/2006/0164). The new Regulation was to have superseded the various acts incorporated in it.
In the meantime Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission has been amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, which introduced a regulatory procedure with scrutiny for measures of general scope designed to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty (the co-decision procedure), including by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument by the addition of new non-essential elements.
This Regulation recasts Regulation (EEC) No 3880/91 in order to incorporate the amendments necessary for the adjustment to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.
On comitology, the proposal states that power should be conferred on the Commission to adapt the lists of species and statistical fishing regions, descriptions of those fishing regions and the permitted degree of aggregation of data. 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.