31990R3877

29 . 12. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 367/ 113

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3877/90 of 21 December 1990 concerning the stopping of fishing for common sole by vessels flying the flag of a Member State

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, the flag of a Member State or registered in a Member State have reached the total allowable catches for 1990, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2241 /87 of 23 July 1987 establishing certain control measures for fishing activities ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No Article 1 3483/88 (2), and in particular Article 1 1 (3) thereof, Catches of common sole in the waters of ICES divisions Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 4047/89 of 19 III a ; III b, c, d (EC zone) by vessels flying the flag of a December 1989 fixing, for certain fish stocks and groups Member State or registered in a Member State are deemed of fish stocks, the total allowable catches for 1990 and to have exhausted the total allowable catches for 1990. certain conditions under which they may be fished (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 887/90 (4), Fishing for common sole in the waters of ICES divisions provides for common sole total allowable catches for III a ; III b, c, d (EC-zone) by vessels flying the flag of a 1990 ; Member State or registered in a Member State is prohi­ bited, as well as the retention on board, the transhipment Whereas, in order to ensure compliance with the provi­ and the landing of such stock captured by the abovemen­ sions relating to the quantitative limitations on catches of tioned vessels after the date of entry into force of this stocks subject to total allowable catches, it is necessary for Regulation. the Commission to fix the date by which catches made by vessels flying the flag of a Member State are deemed to have exhausted the total allowable catches ; Article 2

Whereas, according to the information communicated to This Regulation shall enter into force on the day follo­ the Commission, catches of common sole in the waters of wing that of its publication in the Official Journal of the ICES divisions III a ; III b, c, d (EC-zone) by vessels flying European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1990 .

For the Commission Manuel MARÍN Vice-President

(') OJ No L 207, 29 . 7. 1987, p. 1 . O OJ No L 306, 11 . 11 . 1988, p. 2. (3) OJ No L 389, 30. 12. 1989, p. 1 . O OJ No L 172, 5. 7. 1990, p. 1 .