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PART I QUANTITATIVE LIMITATIONS OF LICENCES AND FISHING PERMITS FOR COMMUNITY VESSELS FISHING IN THIRD COUNTRY WATERS Area of fishing Fishery Number of licences Repartition of licences amongst Member States Maximum number of vessels present at any time Norwegian waters and fishery zone around Jan Mayen Herring, North of 62° 00' N 75 DK: 26, DE: 5, FR: 1, IRL: 7, NL: 9, SW: 10, UK: 17 55 Demersal species, North of 62° 00' N 80 FR: 18, PT: 9, DE: 16, ES: 20, UK: 14, IRL: 1 50 Mackerel, South of 62° 00' N, purse seine fishery 11 DE: 1 , DK: 26 , FR: 2 , NL: 1 not relevant Mackerel, South of 62° 00' N, trawl fishery 19 not relevant Mackerel, North of 62° 00' N, purse seine fishery 11 DK: 11 not relevant Industrial species, South of 62° 00' N 480 DK: 450, UK: 30 150 Waters of the Faroe Islands All trawl fisheries with vessels of not more than 180 feet in the zone between 12 and 21 miles from the Faroese baselines 26 BE: 0, DE: 4, FR: 4, UK: 18 13 Directed fishing for cod and haddock with a minimum mesh of 135 mm, restricted to the area south of 62° 28' N and east of 6° 30' W 8 4

Trawling outside 21 miles from the Faroese baseline. In the periods 1 March to 31 May and 1 October to 31 December, these vessels may operate in the area between 61° 20' N and 62° 00' N and between 12 and 21 miles from the baselines. 70 BE: 0, DE: 10, FR: 40, UK: 20 26 Trawl fisheries for blue ling with a minimum mesh of 100 mm in the area south of 61° 30' N and west of 9° 00' W and in the area between 7° 00' W and 9° 00' W south of 60° 30' N and in the area south-west of a line between 60° 30' N, 7° 00' W and 60° 00' N, 6° 00' W. 70 DE: 8 , FR: 12 , UK: 0 20 Directed trawl fishery for saithe with a minimum mesh size of 120 mm and with the possibility to use round-straps around the codend. 70 22 Fisheries for blue whiting. The total number of licences may be increased by four vessels to form pairs, should the Faroese authorities introduce special rules of access to an area called ‘main fishing area of blue whiting’ 34 DE: 3, DK: 19, FR: 2, UK: 5, NL: 5 20 Line fishing 10 UK: 10 6 Fishing for mackerel 12 DK: 12 12 Herring fisheries north of 62° N 21 DE: 1, DK: 7, FR: 0, UK: 5, IRL: 2, NL: 3, SW: 3 21 Iceland All fisheries 18 5 Waters of the Russian Federation

All fisheries pm pm Fisheries for cod 7 pm Fisheries for sprat pm pm This allocation is valid for purse and trawl fisheries. To be selected from the 11 licences for purse seine fishery for mackerel South of 62° 00' N. Following the Agreed Record of 1999, the figures for the Directed fishing for cod and haddock are included in the figures for ‘All trawl fisheries with vessels of not more than 180 feet in the zone between 12 and 21 miles from the Faroese baselines’. These figures refer to the maximum number of vessels present at any time. These figures are included in the figures for ‘Trawling outside 21 miles from the Faroese baselines’. Applies only to vessels flying the flag of Latvia. PART II QUANTITATIVE LIMITATIONS OF LICENCES AND FISHING PERMITS FOR THIRD COUNTRY VESSELS IN COMMUNITY WATERS Flag State Fishery Number of licences Maximum number of vessels present at any time Norway Herring, North of 62°00′N 18 18 Faroe Islands Mackerel, VIa (north of 56°30′N), VIIe,f,h, horse mackerel, IV, VIa (north of 56°30′N), VIIe,f,h; herring, VIa (north of 56°30′N) 14 14 Herring north of 62°00′N 21 21 Herring, IIIa 4 4

Industrial fishing for Norway pout and sprat, IV, VIa (north of 56°30′N): sandeel, IV (including unavoidable by-catches of blue whiting) 15 15 Ling and tusk 20 10 Blue whiting, VIa (north of 56°30′N), VIb, VII (west of 12°00′W) 20 20 Blue ling 16 16 Porbeagle (all zones except NAFO 3PS) 3 3 Russian Federation Herring, IIId (Swedish waters) pm pm Herring, IIId (Swedish waters, non-fishing mother ships) pm pm Sprat 4 pm Barbados Penaeus shrimps (French Guyana waters) 5 pm Snappers (French Guyana waters) 5 pm Guyana Penaeus shrimps (French Guyana waters) pm pm Surinam Penaeus shrimps (French Guyana waters) 5 pm Trinidad and Tobago Penaeus shrimps (French Guyana waters) 8 pm Japan Tuna (French Guyana waters) pm Korea Tuna (French Guyana waters) pm pm Venezuela Snappers (French Guyana waters) 41 pm Sharks (French Guyana waters) 4 pm Applies only to the Latvian zone of EC waters.

The licences concerning fishing for shrimp in the waters of the French Department of Guyana shall be issued on the basis of a fishing plan submitted by the authorities of the third country concerned, approved by the Commission. The period of validity of each of these licences shall be limited to the fishing period provided for in the fishing plan on the basis of which the licence was issued. The annual number of days at sea is limited to 200. To be fished exclusively with long lines or traps (snappers) or long lines or mesh nets having a minimum mesh of 100 mm, at depths greater than 30 m (sharks). To issue these licences, proof must be produced that a valid contract exists between the ship owner applying for the licence and a processing undertaking situated in the French Department of Guyana, and that it includes and obligation to land at least 75 % of all snapper catches, or 50 % of all shark catches from the vessel concerned in that department so that they may be processed in that undertaking's plant. Applicable from 1 January to 30 April 2005. Pending the conclusion of fisheries consultations with Norway for 2005. The annual number of days at sea is limited to pm.

The annual number of days at sea is limited to 350. To be fished exclusively with longlines. Of which at any given time a maximum of 10 for vessels fishing cod with gillnets. PART III DECLARATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 15 (2)