Council Decision (EU) 2015/1893 of 5 October 2015 on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the Republic of Madagascar and the European Community

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to conclude the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and Madagascar. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Council may adopt the act only if Parliament has given its consent to the act. BACKGROUND: on the basis of the powers conferred on it by the Council, the European Commission has conducted negotiations with Madagascar with a view to renewing the Protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and this country. At the end of the negotiations a new draft protocol was initialled by the negotiators on 19 June 2014. PURPOSE: to conclude a Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the Madagascar and the European Community. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the Council may adopt the act only if Parliament has given its consent to the act. BACKGROUND: the European Union negotiated with Madagascar a new protocol to the partnership agreement granting Union vessels fishing possibilities in the fishing zone over which Madagascar has jurisdiction. The Protocol was signed in accordance with a Council Decision and has been applied on a provisional basis. CONTENT: under this draft Decision, the Council is called upon to approve a Protocol between setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between Madagascar and the EC on behalf of the Union. The Protocol aims to set out the conditions under which ships flying under a EU flag might fish in the waters off Madagascar. For more details on the fishing possibilities and financial contributions to be paid from the EU budget under the Protocol, please refer to the summary of the Commission’s initial legislative proposal of 31/10/2014. Simplified procedure for determining the EU’s position in the Joint Committee : the agreement establishes a Joint Committee to see to the application of the agreement. In accordance with the Protocol, the Joint committee may approve certain amendments to the Protocol. In order to ensure approval of the amendments, the Commission is empowered, under certain conditions, to approve them in accordance with a simplified procedure . Annex : the draft decision sets out the extent of the powers conferred on the Commission as well as the procedure for establishing the Union’s position in the Joint Committee. The Commission is authorised to negotiate amendments on the following topics with Madagascar: · review of fishing opportunities, as well as the review of the financial contribution and amendments of the Protocol and the Annex; · determining fishing possibilities in accordance with the Protocol; · a decision on the detailed arrangements of the sectoral support; · adoption of measures to ensure sustainable fishing resources covered by the Protocol and affecting the activities of fishing vessels of the Union; · amendment of the provisions relating to conditions governing fishing activities and the rules on the implementation of the Protocol and the Annexes In the…

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