Submission of statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States

The Council has adopted a Common Position which accepts all Parliamentary amendments. A new element has been introduced however. The Council requests that implementing decisions be adopted in accordance with the new “regulatory procedure with scrutiny” as set out in Decision 2006/512/EC. For a summary of the Decision see CNS/2002/0298. This new committee procedure has to be followed to adopt measures of general scope and measures which seek to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with Article 251 of the Treaty. This includes, inter alia, deleting some of elements by supplementing the instrument with new non-essential elements.