No L 363/60 Official Journal of the European Communities 31.12. 94 \ COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 3366/94 of 20 December 1994 laying down for 1995 certain conservation and management measures for fishery resources in the Regulatory Area as defined in the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the * North West Atlantic Fisheries THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty estabhshmg the European Com- munity, ‘ Having regard to the 1994 Act of Accession, .Havmg regard to Council Regulatlon (EEC) No 3760/92 20 December 1992 establishing a Community system for fisheries and aquaculture (1), and in particular Article 8 (4) - thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas the Community has signed the United Nations’ Convention on the Law of the Sea, which contains principles and rules relating to the conservation and management of the living resources within the exclusive economic zons of the  coastal States and on the high seas; ‘Whereas the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North West Atlantic Fisheries, hereinafter referred to as the NAFO Convention, was approved by the Council in Regulation (EEC) No 3179/78 (%) and entered into force on 1 Januar 1979; whereas the Regulatory Area as defined con- sists of that part of the Convention Area which lies beyond the areas in which coastal States exercise fisheries jurisdic- tion; ‘Whereas the NAFO Convention establishes a suitable frame- work for the rational conservation and management of the fishery resources of the Regulatory Area with a view to “achieving the optimum utilization thereof; whereas, to this end, the Contracting Parties undertake to carry out joint mea- sures; Whereas, in the light of the available scientific advice, the catches of certain species in certain parts of the Regulatory Area should be limited; whereas, in accordance with Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92, it falls to the Council to establish the total allowable catches (TACs) by stock or group of stocks, the share available for the Community and the specific conditions under which catches must be made and to allocate the share available to the Community among the Member States; Whereas, in order to ensure the conservation of fishery resources and their balanced exploitation, technical conser- vation measures must be defined, inter alia, for mesh sizes, the level of by-catches and authorized fish sizes; () OJNolL 389, 31.12.1992, p ® o] NOL378 30. 12. 1978, p 1 Whereas the enable controls to be carried out on catches from I the Regulatory Area while supplementing the monitoring measures provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 (%) certain specific control measures are to be defined, inter alia, . or the declaration of catches, the communication of informa- tion, the holding of non-authorized nets and information and assistance relating to the storage and processing of catches; Whereas the maximum catch level for Greenland halibut in _sub-areas 2 and 3 is at present unallocated among NAFO Contracting Parties, whereas the NAFO Fisheries Commis- sion will convene an inter-sessional meeting to decide such allocation, and whereas catches of Greenland halibut will be authorized in 1995 and will be counted against the quotas decided for Member States, - HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Scope 1. Community vessels operating in the Regulatory Area and retaining on board fish from resources of that area shall do so in furtherance of the objectives and principles of the NAFO Convention. 2. With a view to ensuring through the joint action of the Contracting Parties the rational conservation and manage- ment of the fishery resources of the Regulatory Area for the purpose of achieving the optimum utilization thereof, this Regulation lays down: — limits on catches, ~ — technical conservation measures, — international control measures, — provisions relating to the processing and transmission of certain scientific and statistical data. Article 2 Community participation Member States shall forward to the Commission a list of all vessels registered in their ports or flying their flag which intend to take part in the fishing activities in the Regulatory (3 OJ NoL 261, 20. 10. 1993, p. 1.