Considerations on COM(2022)263 - Authorisation of Poland to ratify the amendment to the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea

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dossier COM(2022)263 - Authorisation of Poland to ratify the amendment to the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in ...
document COM(2022)263 EN
date March  9, 2023
 
table>(1)The Union is a Contracting Party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 (2), which requires all members of the international community to cooperate in conserving and managing the living resources of the sea.
(2)The Union is also a Contracting Party to the Agreement for the implementation of the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks (3).

(3)The Union has exclusive competence in the field of conservation of marine biological resources under the Common Fisheries Policy. The powers thus conferred on the Union on the internal level also include the Union's power to cooperate in international organisations, including in the framework of regional fisheries management organisations.

(4)Poland is a Contracting Party to the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea (the ‘Convention’). The Union is not a party to the Convention. By virtue of Article 6(9) of the 2003 Act of Accession, as from the date of accession, fisheries agreements concluded by acceding Member States with third countries are to be managed by the Union. The Union should therefore implement in its legal order any decisions established under the Convention.

(5)It is in the Union’s interest to play an effective role in the implementation of the Convention. Such a course of action will also promote consistency in the Union’s conservation approach across oceans and reinforce its commitment to the long-term conservation and sustainable use of fisheries resources globally.

(6)By its Decision of 11 April 2016 the Council authorised Poland to negotiate, in the interest of the Union, an amendment to the Convention that would allow the participation of the Union as a full party to the Convention. To that end, Poland was to propose an amendment to the Convention in order to allow the participation of regional economic integration organisations and to allow for the Union to become a party to the Convention.

(7)In October 2016, Poland proposed such an amendment to the Convention to the Depositary of the Convention.

(8)Poland should therefore be authorised to ratify the amendment to the Convention,