Fisheries sector: criteria and arrangements regarding Community structural assistance

OBJECTIVE: to amend certain provisions of the implementing regulation relating to the financial instrument for fisheries guidance (IFOP) with regard to vessel tonnage, in light of the implementation of the provisions of the London Convention which will generalise, by 1 January 2004 at the latest, the use of gross tonnage as the unit of tonnage to all vessels of the fishing fleet of the European Union. COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Regulation (EC) No 1624/95 amending Regulation (EC) No 3699/93 laying down the criteria and arrangements regarding Community structural assistance in the fisheries and aquaculture sector and the processing and marketing of its products. SUBSTANCE: . amendment of Article 8 and Annex III to the IFOP Regulation to replace the expression in GRT of the threshold tonnage subject to certain measures with the GT unit of tonnage; . amendment of the scales of assistance relating to fishing fleets in Annex IV of the IFOP Regulation to eventually replace the premium scales in ECU/GRT with premium scales in ECU/GT; . from 1 January 2004, only reference to the GT unit of tonnage shall be possible in this Regulation; . reduction in the activity threshold that renders a fishing vessel eligible for measures of permanent withdrawal as regards fishing vessels registered in the North Baltic ports; DATE OF ENTRY INTO FORCE: 6 July 1995. �