18.1.1999 Official Journal of the European Communities L 13/71 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 52/1999 of 18 December 1998 laying down, for 1999, certain measures for the conservation and management of fishery resources applicable to vessels flying the flag of the Faeroe Islands THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92 of 20 December 1992 establishing a Community system for fisheries and aquaculture ('), and in particular Article 8(4) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas, in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 2 of the Agreement on fisheries between the European Economic Community, of the one part, and the Government of Denmark and the Home Government of the Faeroe Islands, of the other part (?), the Community and the Home Government of the Faeroe Islands have held consultations concerning their mutual fishing rights for 1999; Whereas, in the course of these consultations, the delegations agreed to recommend to their respective authorities that certain catch quotas for 1999 should be fixed for the vessels of the other Party; Whereas the Community, the Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and the Russian Federation have held consultations on the management and sharing of Norwegian spring-spawning herring (Atlanto-Scandian herring) in 1999; Whereas these consultations led, inter alia, to subsequent arrangements on reciprocal access, under which the Faeroe Islands may fish 11 000 tonnes of their share in Community fishing waters north of 62° N; Whereas measures should be taken to implement the results of these consultations between the Community and the Faeroe Islands and thus prevent any interruption of mutual fisheries relations as at 31 December 1998; (Y) OJ L 389, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1181/98 (O] L 164, 9.6.1998, p. 1). (3) OJ L 226, 29.8.1980, p. 11. Whereas the fishing activities covered by this Regulation are subject to the control measures provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy (3); Whereas Article 3(2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1381/87 of 20 May 1987 establishing detailed rules concerning the marking and documentation of fishing vessels (*) provides that all vessels with chilled or refrigerated sea-water tanks are to keep on board a document certified by a competent authority and specifying the calibration of the tanks in cubic metres at 10-centimetre intervals; Whereas, for imperative reasons of common interest, this Regulation will apply from 1 January 1999, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1. Vessels registered in the Faroe Islands are hereby authorized, from 1 January to 31 December 1999, to fish for the species listed in Annex I, within the geographical and quantitative limits laid down therein and in accordance with this Regulation, in the 200-nautical-mile fishing zone of the Member States in the North Sea, Skagerrak, Kattegat, the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean north of 43°00'N. 2. Fishing authorized under paragraph 1 shall be limited, except in the Skagerrak, to those parts of the 200-nautical-mile fishing zone lying seawards of 12 nautical miles from the baselines from which the fishing zones of Member States are measured. () OJ L 261, 20.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2205/97 (O] L 304, 7.11.1997, p. 1.). (*) OJ L 132, 21.5.1987, p. 9.