Objectives and strategies for the management of certain fishing grounds for the period 1994-1997
‘Working on the basis of the Council conclusions of 28 September 1994, the Council held a thoroughgoing discussion of medium-term objectives, recognising their importance for resource management. The Council observed that objectives and strategies needed to be examined together, giving due weight to socio-economic factors and multiannual guidance programmes, and agreed on the need to continue discussions on all aspects, including the legal form of the instrument. However, the Council agrees that special attention should be paid, both now and when TACs and quotas are fixed at the end of the year, to the highly sensitive stocks identified by the Commission, of which the Council has taken good note. The Council therefore calls on the Commission to ensure that scientific experts monitor the development of these stocks particularly carefully and to report back on its work.’