fisheries surveillance (purchasing equipment, administrative costs of monitoring, technical assistance, hiring equipment, and monitoring measures in conjunction with other countries and organisations in the region and/or the European Union), including the possibility of meeting the cost of setting up a satellite monitoring system (VMS) for fishing vessels.

support for fisheries surveillance bodies:

Whereas, to ensure that all catches and landings are kept under surveillance, Member States must monitor in all maritime waters the activities of Community vessels and all related activities allowing verification of the implementation of the rules concerning the common fisheries policy;

Support for fisheries surveillance and management of the fishing effort

The Republic of Guinea undertakes to develop its fisheries surveillance policy.

fisheries surveillance, including setting up a satellite vessel monitoring system (VMS):

EUR 1,5 million per year for support for fisheries surveillance, intended to finance the operating costs of the DSPCM and possibly the introduction of new means of surveillance;

To this end, the European Community shall make a financial contribution towards the reinforcement of fisheries surveillance activities in the Republic of Guinea by allocating EUR 500000 in 2004 and EUR 300000 in 2005 for the purchase of at least two surveillance vessels.

EUR 267000 towards a system of fisheries monitoring, checks and surveillance;

the procedure for the inspection and surveillance of activities in the fisheries sector;

EUR 180 000 towards financing programmes to develop quality control for fishery products and fisheries monitoring and surveillance.

Member States may also carry out, among themselves and on their initiative, monitoring, inspecting and surveillance programmes concerning the fisheries activities.

The scheme of joint international inspection and surveillance, adopted by the NAFO Fisheries Commission on 13 September 1991, hereinafter referred to as "the scheme ", shall apply in the Community.

Council Decision of 28 May 2001 on a financial contribution by the Community to certain expenditure incurred by the Member States in implementing the control, inspection and surveillance systems applicable to the common fisheries policy

In order to ensure compliance with all the rules in force, each Member State within its territory and within maritime waters subject to its sovereignty or jurisdiction shall monitor, inspect and maintain surveillance of all activities in the fisheries sector, particularly fishing itself, transhipment, landing, marketing, transport and storage of fisheries products and the recording of landing and sales.

The Committee of Fisheries of the Federation of Russia, assisted by the State Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance (Goskomsanepidnadzor) shall be the competent authority in Russia for verifying and certifying compliance of fishery products with the requirements of Directive 91/493/EEC.

whereas it is necessary to intensify the inspection and surveillance of landings by vessels flying the flag of a third country and particularly, following the steps taken by certain regional (fisheries organisations to increase the effectiveness of measures for the conservation of fishery resources on the high seas, catches taken in the zones concerned;

Whereas, in order to strengthen and facilitate cooperation between all the authorities in the Community involved in the monitoring, inspection and surveillance of activities in the fisheries sector, a general framework should be set up under which all the authorities concerned can request mutual assistance and the exchange of relevant information, and specific monitoring programmes should be introduced;

(5) A financial contribution by the Community may be granted in respect of the pilot projects carried out by the Member States, under the conditions set out in Council Decision 2001/431/EC of 28 May 2001 on a financial contribution by the Community to certain expenditure incurred by the Member States in implementing the control, inspection and surveillance systems applicable to the common fisheries policy(2).

Whereas the NAFO Fisheries Commission adopted on 13 September 1991 a proposal for a modified scheme, henceforward to be entitled 'scheme of joint international inspection and surveillance'; whereas pursuant to Article XI of the NAFO Convention, the proposal will, in the absence of objections, become a measure binding upon Contracting Parties with effect from 6 January 1992; whereas the modified scheme is acceptable to the Community;

Whereas the Committee of Fisheries of the Russian Federation has the responsibility to draw up the list of establishments, factory vessels and freezer vessels approved for the export of fishery products to the European Union, and has delegated to the State Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance (Goskomsanepidnadzor) the responsibility for the health inspections and for monitoring the conditions of hygiene and cleanliness pertaining to production;

In Commission Decision 97/102/EC of 16 January 1997 laying down special conditions governing imports of fishery and aquaculture products originating in Russia (3), the 'Committee of Fisheries of the Federation of Russia, assisted by the State Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance (Goskomsanepid-nadzor)' is identified as the competent authority in Russia for verifying and certifying compliance of fishery and aquaculture products with the requirements of Directive 91/493/EEC.

Support programme for fisheries surveillance:

'Surveillance authority` shall mean the delegation responsible for fisheries surveillance and protection in Mauritania;

No fishing vessel may leave Angola's fishing zone without obtaining the prior authorisation of the Fisheries Surveillance Directorate of the Fisheries and Environment Ministry after the catches on board have been checked.

However, the vessel shall be entered on the list of authorised fishing vessels as soon as notification is received that the European Commission has paid the advance to the Angolan authorities and the list shall be communicated to the Angolan authorities responsible for fisheries surveillance.

However, in the case of tuna vessels and surface longliners, the vessel shall be entered on the list of authorised fishing vessels as soon as notification is received that the European Commission has paid the advance to the Angolan authorities and the list shall be communicated to the Angolan authorities responsible for fisheries surveillance.

Format for electronic exchange of fisheries monitoring, inspection and surveillance information (The North Atlantic Format)

EUR 180000 towards financing programmes to develop quality control for fishery products and fisheries monitoring and surveillance.

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1956/88 (2), last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 436/92 (3) implements the Scheme of Joint International Inspection and Surveillance adopted by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Fisheries Commission on 10 February 1988;

Whereas the NAFO Fisheries Commission adopted on 13 September 1991 a proposal for a modified scheme, henceforward to be entitled 'scheme of joint international inspection and surveillance';

By guaranteeing the implementation of the control, inspection and surveillance systems applicable to the common fisheries policy, the Member States discharge an obligation of Community interest.

to continue to have fisheries patrol vessels in the NAFO Regulatory Area for inspections under the NAFO Scheme of Joint International Inspection and Surveillance subject to operational requirements;

A copy of the documentation relating to transhipments shall, 15 days before the end of each month for the preceding month, be transmitted to the Surveillance Directorate of the Fisheries and Environment Ministry.

A copy of the documentation relating to transhipments shall be forwarded to the National Surveillance Directorate of the Fisheries and Environment Ministry 15 days before the end of each month for the preceding month.

Whereas the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), established by the NAFO Convention, adopted a Joint Scheme of Inspection and Surveillance which was adopted by the Council in Regulation (EEC) No 1956/88 (4);

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 761/94 of 6 April 1994 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1956/88 adopting provisions for the applicaton of the Scheme of Joint International Inspection and Surveillance adopted by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization

To ensure continuity of a Community financial contribution to certain expenditure incurred by Member States in implementing the control, inspection and surveillance systems applicable to the Common Fisheries Policy, it is imperative to apply this Decision with effect from 1 January 2001,

No fishing or merchant vessel may leave the territorial waters of the Republic of Angola without the prior authorisation of the Direcçao Nacional de Fiscalizaçao (National Directorate for Surveillance) of the Fisheries and Environment Ministry and without the catches on board being checked.

The form must be completed legibly, must be signed by the skipper of the vessel and must be sent to the National Inspection and Surveillance Directorate of the Fisheries and Environment Ministry via the Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities within 45 days of the end of the fishing campaign in Angolan waters;

whereas it is necessary to intensify the inspection and surveillance of landings by vessels flying the flag of a third country and particularly, following the steps taken by certain regional fisheries organisations to increase the effectiveness of measures for the conservation of fishery resources on the high seas, catches taken in the zones concerned;

Under the conditions set out in this Decision, the Community may grant a financial contribution (hereinafter "financial contribution") to control programmes established by the Member States for the implementation of the control, inspection and surveillance systems applicable to the common fisheries policy laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93.

A financial contribution by the Community may be granted in respect of the pilot projects carried out by the Member States, under the conditions set out in Council Decision 2001/431/EC of 28 May 2001 on a financial contribution by the Community to certain expenditure incurred by the Member States in implementing the control, inspection and surveillance systems applicable to the common fisheries policy(2).

Whereas, with the objective of improving control and enforcement in the NAFO Regulatory Area and complementing the existing Scheme of Joint International Inspection and Surveillance, the Community has agreed, in the framework of the NAFO and the Agreement on Fisheries with Canada, to deploy Community observers on board Community fishing vessels while engaged in fishing activities in the said NAFO Regulatory Area;

beginning in 1993, the Community shall exercise at least the same degree of control over Community vessels as in 1992 to ensure that their catches do not exceed quotas, by closing fisheries when quotas are deemed to have been exhausted and by endeavouring to limit fishing effort (number of vessels and fishing days) in relation to quotas and other legitimate fishing possibilities so as to ensure effective surveillance and control;

In Commission Decision 97/102/EC of 16 January 1997 laying down special conditions governing imports of fishery and aquaculture products originating in Russia(3), the "Committee of Fisheries of the Federation of Russia, assisted by the State Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance (Goskomsanepidnadzor)" is identified as the competent authority in Russia for verifying and certifying compliance of fishery and aquaculture products with the requirements of Directive 91/493/EEC.

Proposals adopted by the Commission for the allocation of catches in the Regulatory Area shall take into account the interests of Commission members whose vessels have traditionally fished within that Area , and , in the allocation of catches from the Grand Banks and Flemish Cap , Commission members shall give special consideration to the Contracting Party whose coastal communities are primarily dependent on fishing for stocks related to these fishings banks and which has undertaken extensive efforts to ensure the conservation of such stocks through international action , in particular , by providing surveillance and inspection of international fisheries on these banks under an international scheme of joint enforcement.