Dies ist eine HTML Version eines Anhanges der Informationsfreiheitsanfrage 'Access to information regarding total allowable catches (TACs) of EU fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic discussed and adopted on 16 and 17 December 2019, and exemptions from the landing obligation'.

Mr. Bernard Friess   
1 August 2019 
Director
Ref. 
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries 
European Commission 
B-1049 Brussels 
Sent by e-mail to: 
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Subject: Updating the Scheveningen Group’s joint recommendation for 
a demersal discard plan in light of the scientific assessment 

Dear Mr Friess, 
Thank you for the letter of 26 July 2019 with your comments to the revised joint 
recommendation from the Scheveningen Group regarding the amendment to the 
discard plan for the demersal fisheries in the North Sea. 
On behalf of the Scheveningen Group, I have the honour of transmitting to you a 
second revised Joint Recommendation for the amendment of Commission 
Delegated Regulation (EU) no. 2018/2035 of 18 October 2018 on the discard plan 
for demersal fisheries in the North Sea 2019-2021. 
As previously mentioned, in preparing the requests for the amendment to the 
discard plan, the Scheveningen Group took note of the comments made by STECF 
in 2018. However, it appears that for two de minimis exemptions previously 
granted, additional scientific information has been called for by the STECF. The 
Scheveningen Group would again urge the Commission to allow Member States to 
provide such information as quickly as possible and for the exemptions to be 
granted on a temporary basis for 2020. The exemptions are currently in brackets. 
Should the European Commission conclude that these de minimis requests and 
conditions would endanger the adoption of the delegated act, the Scheveningen 
Group is prepared to allow the Commission to regard the two bracketed exemption 
requests as removed from the joint recommendation and not include them in a 
delegated act. 
Against this background, the Scheveningen Group has adopted the enclosed 
revised Joint Recommendation with a view to amend Commission Delegated 
Regulation (EU) no 2018/2035.  
I remain available for any inquiry you may have in this regard. 
Yours sincerely, 
Chair of the Scheveningen Member States Group