Decision 2020/765 - Conclusion of the Protocol to amend the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas

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  2. Key information
  3. Key dates
  4. Legislative text
  5. Original proposal
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Current status

This decision has been published on June 12, 2020 and entered into force on May 29, 2020.

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Key information

official title

Council Decision (EU) 2020/765 of 29 May 2020 on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Protocol to amend the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
 
Legal instrument Decision
Number legal act Decision 2020/765
Original proposal COM(2019)472 EN
CELEX number i 32020D0765

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Key dates

Document 29-05-2020; Date of adoption
Publication in Official Journal 12-06-2020; OJ L 187 p. 1-2
Effect 29-05-2020; Entry into force Date of document See Art 3
End of validity 31-12-9999

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Legislative text

12.6.2020   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 187/1
 

COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2020/765

of 29 May 2020

on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Protocol to amend the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 43, in conjunction with point (a)(v) of the second subparagraph of Article 218(6) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Having regard to the consent of the European Parliament (1),

Whereas:

 

(1)

In accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2019/2025 (2), the Protocol to amend the International Convention on the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (‘the Protocol’) was signed on 20 November 2019.
 

(2)

Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) provides that the Union is to ensure that fishing and aquaculture activities are environmentally sustainable in the long term and are managed in a way that is consistent with the objectives of achieving economic, social and employment benefits, and of contributing to the availability of food supplies. It also provides that the Union is to apply the precautionary approach to fisheries management, and is to aim to ensure that exploitation of living marine biological resources restores and maintains population of harvested species above levels which can produce the maximum sustainable yield. It further provides that the Union is to take management and conservation measures based on best available scientific advice, to support the development of scientific knowledge and advice, to gradually eliminate discards and to promote fishing methods that contribute to more selective fishing and the avoidance and reduction, as far as possible, of unwanted catches, to fishing with low impact on the marine ecosystem and fishery resources. Moreover, Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 specifically provides that those objectives and principles are to be applied by the Union in the conduct of its external fisheries relations. The Protocol is consistent with those objectives.
 

(3)

As stated in the Joint Communication by the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy entitled ‘International ocean governance: an agenda for the future of oceans’, and the Council conclusions on that Joint Communication, the promotion of measures to support and enhance the effectiveness of regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs) and, where relevant, improve their governance is central to the Union’s action in these fora. The Protocol is fully in line with these aims.
 

(4)

The Protocol should be approved on behalf of the European Union,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Protocol to amend the International Convention on the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas is hereby approved on behalf of the Union.

Article 2

The President of the Council shall designate the person(s) empowered to deposit, on behalf of the Union, the instrument of approval of the Protocol provided for in Article 13 of the Protocol.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption (4).

Done at Brussels, 29 May 2020.

For the Council

The President

  • G. 
    GRLIĆ RADMAN
 
  • (1) 
    Consent given on 13 May 2020.
  • (2) 
    Council Decision (EU) 2019/2025 of 18 November 2019 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and the provisional application of the Protocol to amend the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (OJ L 313, 4.12.2019, p. 1).
  • (3) 
    Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC)...

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Original proposal

 

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