31977R1057

24 . 5 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 128 / 5

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1057 / 77 of 17 May 1977 amending Regulation ( EEC) No 350/77 laying down certain interim measures for the conservation and management of fishery resources

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN tion and management of fishery resources ('), as COMMUNITIES , amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 879/77 (2), shall be replaced by the following : Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 103 ' 1 . Fishing for North Sea herring shall be prohi­ thereof, bited from 28 February 1977 until 30 June 1977 in sub-area IV and division Vll-d defined by the Having regard to the Act of Accession , and in parti­ International Council for the Exploration of the cular Article 102 thereof, Sea . Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , However, the Kingdom of the Netherlands shall Whereas all the latest scientific estimates of the North be authorized to catch up to 1 500 tonnes of North Sea herring in June by direct fishing. Sea herring stock for 1977 are not yet available ; whereas, therefore, the prohibition on herring fishing 2. The Council , acting by a qualified majority in the North Sea should be extended to 30 June 1977 on a proposal from the Commission , shall lay on the understanding that the Council will have to down , before 1 July 1977, the measures to be adopt before 1 July 1977 the measures to be applied applied for the remaining part of 1977. for the remaining part of 1977 ; These measures shall be determined taking Whereas, however, an exception to this prohibition account of the results of the latest available scien­ should be made for the Netherlands as a result of the tific evidence concerning the North Sea herring particular situation of that country ; stock for 1977 .'

Whereas the prohibition on herring fishing in the Article 2 North Sea involves the risk that the fishing effort will be transferred to other zones ; whereas herring fishing Regulation (EEC) No 350/77 shall be supplemented in the West of Scotland zone should therefore be regu­ by the following Article 2a : lated, ' Artie e 2d Herring fishing shall be prohibited in division HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Vl-a defined by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (West of Scotland including A rticle 1 Donegal Bay) until 30 June 1977 .'

The text of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 1 of Council Article 3 Regulation (EEC) No 350/77 of 18 February 1977 laying down certain interim measures for the conserva­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1977 .

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

Done at Brussels, 17 May 1977 . For the Council

The President

J. SILKIN

(') OJ No L 48 , 19 . 2 . 1977, p . 28 . (2 ) OJ No L 106, 29 . 4 . 1977, p . 30 .