No L 363/114 Official Journal of the European Communities 31.12. 94 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 3376/94 of 20 December 1994 laying down for the period until 31 March 1995 certain measures for the conservation and man- agement of fishery resources applicable to vessels flying the flag of Norway THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com- munity, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92 of 20 December 1992 establishing a Community system for fisheries and aquaculture (M), and in particular Article 8 (4) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas, in accordance with the procedure provided for in Articles 2 and 7 of the Fisheries Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Nor- way (%), the Community and Norway have held consultations concerning mutual fishing rights for the period until 31 March 1995 and the management of common biological resources, whereas the Community- and Norway agreed to hold consultations on their mutual fishing rights for the remainder months of 1995 as early as possible in 1995; Whereas, in the course of these consultations, the delegations agreed to recommend to their respective authorities that cer- ‘tain catch quotas for 1995 should be fixed for the vessels of the other Party; Whereas the agreement of 19 December 1966 between Den- mark, Norway and Sweden on reciprocal access to fishing in the Skagerrak and Kattegat provides that each Party shall grant vessels of the other Parties access to its fishing zone in the Skagerrak and part of the Kattegat up to four nautical miles from the baselines; Whereas the necessary measures should be taken to imple- ment, for 1995, the results of the consultations held between the delegations of the Community and Norway and thus pre- vent any interruption of mutual fisheries relations as at 31 December 1994; Whereas it is for the Council to lay down the specific con- ditions under which such catches must be taken; Whereas the fishing activities covered by this Regulation are subject to the relevant control measures provided. for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 estabhshrng a control system apphcable to the common fish- eries policy (°); () OJ No'L 389, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. () OJ No L 226, 29. 8. 1980, p. 48. () OJ No L 261, 20. 10. 1993, p. 1. Whereas Article 3 (2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1381/87 of 20 May 1987 establishing detailed rules con- cerning the marking and documentation of fishing vessels (4) provides that all vessels with chilled or refrigerated sea-water tanks are to keep on board a document certified by a com- petent authority and specifying the calibration of the tanks in cubic metres at 10-centimetre intervals, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1. Vessels flying the flag of Norway are hereby authorized until 31 March 1995 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, Baltic Sea and Atlantic Ocean north of 43°00" N. 2. Fishing authorized pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be lim- ited 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; however, fishing in the Skagerrak will be allowed seawards of four nautlcal miles from the Danish baselines. 3. Fishing in the parts of ICES division III a bounded in the west by a line drawn from the Hanstholm lighthouse to the Lindesnes lighthouse and in the south by a line drawn from the Skagen lighthouse to the Tistlarna lighthouse and from there to the nearest point on the Swedish coast shall not be subject to quantitative limitations, with the exception of fish- ing for mackerel and saithe. 4, Notwithstanding paragraph 1, unavoidable by-catches of species for which no quota has been fixed in a given zone shall be permitted within the limits laid down by the conser- vation measures in force in the zone concerned. 5. By-catches, in a given zone, of a species for which a quota is established in that zone shall be counted against the quota concerned. Article 2 1. Vessels fishing within the quotas fixed in Article 1 shall comply with the conservation and control measures and all () OJNoL 132, 21. 5. 1987, p. 9.