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Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 48/1999(2) fixes, for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, the TACs for 1998 and certain conditions under which they may be fished;

(2) In order to prevent overexploitation, it is desirable to set new TACs for 1999 in order to limit the catches of the stocks of spurdog and northern prawn in the North Sea; the shares of these TACs available to the Community should be allocated among Member States;

(3) In order to prevent overfishing, the Community fisheries for blue whiting in areas Vb (EC zone), VI and VII, and VIIIabd should be subject to allocation among Member States so as these fisheries are properly monitored;

(4) The abovementioned allocations should be made in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 8(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92;

(5) All or a great deal of the allowed catches in 1999 for all the abovementioned species is likely to have been taken at the time of adoption of this Regulation; it is therefore appropriate to exclude these catches from the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 of 6 May 1996 introducing additional conditions for year-to-year management of TACs and quotas(3);

(6) Within the framework of the bilateral consultations on the reciprocal fishing rights between the Community and Poland for 1999, the Community share for Baltic sprat has been modified;

(7) Regulation (EC) No 48/1999 should therefore be amended accordingly, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: