This proposal has been on the table since March 2005. The initial draft was intended to
integrate within a single Regulation all existing legislation concerning technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources in Community waters in
the Baltic Sea, the Belts and the Sound, such as minimum mesh sizes, time periods and geographical areas within which defined types of fishing are prohibited or restricted and minim
um landing sizes of living aquatic r ...[+++]esources. Such a move had become necessary due to the fact that the binding annual recommendations by the IBSFC (International Baltic Sea Fisheries Commission), which involve, among other things, certain technical measures, had in recent years not been implemented by the Commission in the form of amendments to Council Regulation No 88/98 laying down technical measures for the Baltic Sea, but within the framework of the annual TAC and quota Regulations.
Un tel regroupement était devenu indispensable car les recommandations annuelles de la commission internationale des pêches de la mer Baltique (CIPMB), que la Communauté est tenue de mettre en œuvre et qui comportent, entre autres, certaines mesures techniques, ont été ces dernières années mises en œuvre par la Commission dans le cadre des règlements annuels sur les TAC et quotas, et non par les modifications du règlement (CE) n° 88/98 du Conseil fixant certaines mesures techniques de conservation des ressources halieutiques dans les eaux de la mer Baltique.
