31986R4041

No L 376 / 109 31 . 12 . 86 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 4041 / 86 of 22 December 1986 fixing the flat-rate amounts of horse mackerel and blue whiting allocated to Spain for 1987

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , Whereas , under Article 158 of the Act of Accession, a distinction must be made between fishing for demersal species and fishing for species other than demersal and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European whereas the group to which blue whiting and horse Economic Community , mackerel belong must therefore be defined ,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal (*) and in particular Article 161 thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,

Whereas , under Article 161 of the Act of Accession , Article 1 flat-rate amounts of horse mackerel and blue whiting are allocated to Spain together with , for a three-year period , a The zones in which the flat-rate quantities of horse supplementary quantity of hake which may not exceed mackerel and blue whiting allocated to Spain for 1987 may 4 500 tonnes and the size of which is determined annually be fished shall be as set out in the Annex . on the basis of the state of the stocks concerned ;

Whereas those flat-rate amounts of horse mackerel and Article 2 blue whiting must be distributed among ICES sub-areas and divisions V b ( EC zone ), VI, VII and VIII a , b Blue whiting and horse mackerel shall , for the purposes of and d ; the fishing activities referred to in this Regulation , be considered to be species other than demersal . Whereas the overall level of the share of hake available to the Community in ICES sub-areas and divisions V b (EC zone), VI , VII and VIII a and b reaches 60 000 tonnes for Article 3 1987 ; whereas therefore there is no reason to allocate to Spain for that year the said flat-rate amount of hake; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1987 .

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

Done at Brussels , 22 December 1986 .

For the Council The President G. SHAW

(') OJ No L 302 , 15 . 11 . 1985 , p. 23 .

No L 376 / 110 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 12 . 86

ANNEX

Allocation of the flat-rate amounts

Flat-rate amounts Species ICES zone ( tonnes )

Horse mackerel V b (EC zone), VI , VII ( J ) 10 000 VIII a , b , d 21 000 Blue whiting V b ( EC zone), VI , VII (^ 10 000 VIII a , b , d 20 000

(') Fishing is prohibited in the area south of latitude 56°30' N, east of longitude 12°00' W and north of latitude 50°30 ' N.