Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/124

of 15 October 2019

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/833 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/833 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2019 laying down conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation, amending Regulation (EU) 2016/1627 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2115/2005 and (EC) No 1386/20071, and in particular Article 50(1)thereof,

Whereas:

(1)
The Union is party to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (‘the NAFO Convention’), approved by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3179/782.
(2)
An amendment to the NAFO Convention was adopted on 28 September 2007 and approved by Council Decision 2010/717/EU3.
(3)

The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) adopts decisions for the conservation of fisheries resources under its purview. Those acts are addressed to the Contracting Parties of the NAFO Convention and include obligations for the operators. Upon their entry into force, the NAFO conservation and enforcement measures are binding on all NAFO Contracting Parties, including the Union. They are to be incorporated in Union law to the extent to which they are not already provided for by that law.

(4)

The European Parliament and the Council adopted Regulation (EU) 2019/833 in order to incorporate the NAFO conservation and enforcement measures in Union law.

(5)

Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2019/833 requires the Commission to adopt delegated acts supplementing that Regulation with certain provisions of and Annexes to the NAFO conservation and enforcement measures,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: