Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 520/2014

of 16 May 2014

adding to the 2014 fishing quotas certain quantities withheld in the year 2013 pursuant to Article 4(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 of 6 May 1996 introducing additional conditions for year-to-year management of TACs and quotas1, and in particular Article 4(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

According to Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96, Member States may ask the Commission, before 31 October of the year of application of a fishing quota allocated to them, to withhold a maximum of 10 % of that quota to be transferred to the following year. The Commission is to add to the relevant quota the quantity withheld.

(2)
Council Regulations (EU) No 1262/20122, (EU) No 1088/20123, (EU) No 1261/20124, (EU) No 39/20135 and (EU) No 40/20136 fix fishing quotas for certain stocks for 2013 and specify which stocks may be subject to the measures provided for in Regulation (EC) No 847/96.
(3)
Council Regulations (EU) No 1262/2012, (EU) No 1180/20137, (EU) No 24/20148, and (EU) No 43/20149 fix fishing quotas for certain stocks for 2014.
(4)

Certain Member States have requested, before 31 October of 2013, pursuant to Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96, that part of their quotas for 2013 be withheld and transferred to the following year. Within the limits indicated in that Regulation, the quantities withheld should be added to the quotas for 2014.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,

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