Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1089 of 6 June 2019 on the allocation of fishing opportunities under the Protocol on the implementation of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (2019-2024)

For the purposes of this Regulation ‘highly migratory species’ means the species listed in Annex I to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, except for the family Alopiidae, the family Sphyrnidae, and the following species: Cetorhinus maximus, Rhincodon typus, Carcharodon carcharias, Carcharinus falciformis, Carcharinus longimanus.

The fishing opportunities established under the Protocol on the implementation of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (2019-2024) shall be allocated among the Member States in accordance with Articles 3 and 4 of this Regulation.

Fishing opportunities for demersal and small pelagic species shall be allocated among the Member States as follows: (1) during the first and second years of application of the Protocol, based on a system of fishing effort (gross register tonnage, GRT): (a) freezer shrimp trawlers: Spain2500 GRT;Greece140 GRT;Portugal1060 GRT; (b) freezer fin-fish and cephalopod trawlers: Spain2900 GRT;Greece225 GRT;Italy375 GRT; (c) small-pelagic trawlers: Spain3500 GRT;Portugal500 GRT;Lithuania5000 GRT;Latvia5000 GRT;Poland1000 GRT; (2) from the third year of application of the Protocol, based on a system setting catch limits for each species (total allowable catch, TAC): (a) freezer shrimp trawlers: Spain:1650 tonnes;Greece:100 tonnes;Portugal:750 tonnes; (b) freezer fin-fish trawlers: Spain:9500 tonnes;Greece:500 tonnes;Italy:1000 tonnes; (c) freezer cephalopod trawlers: Spain:1200 tonnes;Greece:150 tonnes;Italy:150 tonnes; (d) small-pelagic trawlers: Spain:3900 tonnes;Portugal:700 tonnes;Lithuania:6000 tonnes;Latvia:6000 tonnes;Poland:1400 tonnes.

Fishing opportunities for highly migratory species shall be allocated as follows: (a) freezer tuna seiners and surface longliners: Spain:14 vessels;France:12 vessels;Portugal:2 vessels; (b) pole-and-line tuna vessels: Spain:10 vessels;France:3 vessels.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 15 June 2019.