31990R3082

26. 10 . 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 295/31

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3082/90 of 24 October 1990 concerning the stopping of fishing for American plaice by vessels flying the flag of a Member State

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, of NAFO zone 3 LNO by vessels flying the flag of a Member State or registered in a Member State have Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European reached the quota allocated for 1990, Economic Community,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2241 /87 of 23 July 1987 establishing certain control measures for Article 1 fishing activities ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3483/88 (2), and in particular Article 1 1 (3) thereof, Catches of American plaice in the waters of NAFO zone 3 LNO by vessels flying the flag of a Member State or Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 4055/89 of 19 registered in a Member State are deemed to have December 1989 fixing catch possibilities for 1990 for exhausted the quota allocated to the Community for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks in the Regu­ 1990 . latory Area as defined in the NAFO Convention (3), Fishing for American plaice in the waters of NAFO zone provides for American plaice quotas for 1990 ; 3 LNO by vessels flying the flag of a Member State or registered in a Member State is prohibited, as well as the Whereas, in order to ensure compliance with the provi­ retention on board, the transhipment and the landing of sions relating to the quantitative limitations on catches of such stock captured by the abovementioned vessels after stocks subject to quotas, it is necessary for the Commis­ the date of entry into force of this Regulation. sion to fix the date by which catches made by vessels flying the flag of a Member State are deemed to have Article 2 exhausted the quota allocated ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the day follo­ Whereas, according to the information communicated to wing its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­ the Commission, catches of American plaice in the waters pean Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 October 1990 .

For the Commission Manuel MARÍN Vice-President

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