# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1594 of 25 September 2017 adding to the 2017 fishing quotas certain quantities withheld in the year 2016 pursuant to Article 4(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 847/96, Introduction: Introductory text

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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1594
of 25 September 2017
adding to the 2017 fishing quotas certain quantities withheld in the year 2016 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 1367/2014, (EU) 2015/2072, (EU) 2016/72 and (EU) 2016/73 fix fishing quotas for certain stocks for 2016 and specify which stocks may be subject to the measures provided for in Regulation (EC) No 847/96.
(3)
Council Regulations (EU) 2016/1903, (EU) 2016/2285, (EU) 2016/2372 and (EU) 2017/127 fix fishing quotas for certain stocks for 2017.
(4)
Certain Member States have requested, before 31 October 2016, pursuant to Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96, that part of their quotas for 2016 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 2017.
(5)
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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