31977R1673

No L 186/ 30 26 . 7 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1673/77 of 25 July 1977 amending Regulation ( EEC) No 350/77 as regards the prohibition of fishing for Norwegian pout

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES , Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community, Fishing for Norwegian pout shall be forbidden from 1 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No September to 15 October 1977 in that part of the 350/77 of 18 February 1977 laying down certain North Sea bounded by a line joining the following interim measures for the conservation and manage­ points : ment of fishing resources ( !), as last amended by Regu­ lation (EEC) No 1417/77 (2), and in particular Article — east coast of the United Kingdom at 56° 00' lati­ 5 (2) thereof, tude North, — 56° 00 latitude North — 00° 00' longitude, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, — 60° 00' latitude North — 00° 00' longitude, Whereas, during fishing for Norwegian pout for indus­ — 60° 00 latitude North — 04° 00' longitude West, trial purposes, a high proportion of immature fish of demersal species are caught as by-catches ; — coast of the United Kingdom at 04°00' longitude West . Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 350/77 provides, in Article 5 (2), for the adoption of measures on fishing for Norwegian pout ; whereas in implementation of Article 2 that Regulation fishing for Norwegian pout should, on the basis of the available scientific estimates, be This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day forbidden from 1 September to 15 October 1977, following its publication in the Official Journal of pending a re-examination of the situation, the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 July 1977.

For the Council The President

H. SIMONET

(>) OJ No L 48 , 19 . 2. 1977, p. 28 . (2) OJ No L 160, 30 . 6 . 1977, p. 20 .