# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1170 of 16 July 2015 adding to the 2015 fishing quotas certain quantities withheld in the year 2014 pursuant to Article 4(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96, Introduction: Introductory text

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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1170
of 16 July 2015
adding to the 2015 fishing quotas certain quantities withheld in the year 2014 pursuant to Article 4(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96 of 6 May 1996 introducing additional conditions for year-to-year management of TACs and quotas, and in particular Article 4(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
According to Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96, Member States may ask the Commission, before 31 October of the year of application of a fishing quota allocated to them, to withhold a maximum of 10 % of that quota to be transferred to the following year. The Commission is to add to the relevant quota the quantity withheld.
(2)
Council Regulations (EU) No 1262/2012, (EU) No 1180/2013, (EU) No 24/2014, and (EU) No 43/2014 fix fishing quotas for certain stocks for 2014 and specify which stocks may be subject to the measures provided for in Regulation (EC) No 847/96.
(3)
Council Regulations (EU) No 1221/2014, (EU) No 1367/2014, (EU) 2015/104 and (EU) 2015/106 fix fishing quotas for certain stocks for 2015.
(4)
Certain Member States have requested, before 31 October 2014, pursuant to Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96, that part of their quotas for 2014 be withheld and transferred to the following year. Within the limits indicated in that Regulation, the quantities withheld should be added to the quotas for 2015.
(5)
On 6 August 2014, the Russian Federation imposed an embargo on the importation of certain agricultural and fisheries products from the Union. In view of those exceptional circumstances, Regulation (EU) No 1221/2014 amended Regulations (EU) No 43/2014 and (EU) No 1180/2013 in respect of stocks that were the most severely or directly affected. The amendment provided for the transfer of an increased percentage of quantities not used in 2014 to the quotas allocated for such stocks in 2015. Those quotas benefited therefore already from an exceptional transfer and are excluded from the scope of this Regulation.
(6)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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