
Article 1 
This Regulation fixes for 2005 and for 2006, for stocks of deep-sea species and for Community fishing vessels, annual fishing opportunities in zones in Community waters and in certain non Community waters where catch limitations are required, and the specific conditions under which fishing opportunities may be utilised.
Article 2 

1. For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘deep-sea fishing permit’ means the fishing permit referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2347/2002 of 16 December 2002 establishing specific access requirements and associated conditions applicable to fishing for deep-sea stocks.
2. The definitions of ICES and CECAF zones are those given, respectively, in Regulation (EEC) No 3880/91 and Regulation (EC) No 2597/95.
Article 3 
Fishing opportunities for stocks of deep-sea species for Community vessels are fixed as set out in the Annex.
Article 4 
The allocation of fishing opportunities among Member States provided for in the Annex shall be without prejudice to:

((a)) exchanges made pursuant to Article 20(5) of Regulation (EEC) No 2371/2002;
((b)) reallocations made pursuant to Articles 21(4) and 32(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 and Article 23(4) of Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002;
((c)) additional landings allowed pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96;
((d)) quantities withheld pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96;
((e)) deductions made pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 and Article 23(4) of Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002.
Article 5 
For the purposes of Regulation (EC) No 847/96, all quotas in the Annex to this Regulation shall be considered ‘Analytic’ quotas.
However, the measures provided for in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 847/96 shall not apply to those quotas.
Article 6 
Fish from stocks for which fishing opportunities are fixed by this Regulation may be retained on board or landed only if they were taken by vessels of a Member State which has a quota which is not exhausted. All landings shall count against the quota.
The first subparagraph shall not apply to catches taken in the course of scientific investigations carried out under Regulation (EC) No 850/98, which shall not count against the quota.
Article 7 

1. The Orange Roughy Protection Areas are defined as the following sea areas:
(a) that sea area enclosed by rhumb lines sequentially joining the following positions:
 57° 00′ N, 11° 00′ W
 57° 00′ N, 8° 30′ W
 56° 23′ N, 8° 30′ W
 55° 00′ N, 9° 38′ W
 55° 00′ N, 11° 00′ W
 57° 00′ N, 11° 00′ W
(b) that sea area enclosed by rhumb lines sequentially joining the following positions:
 55° 30′ N, 15° 49′ W
 53° 30′ N, 14° 11′ W
 50° 30′ N, 14° 11′ W
 50° 30′ N, 15° 49′ W
(c) that sea area enclosed by rhumb lines sequentially joining the following positions:
 55° 00′ N, 13° 51′ W
 55° 00′ N, 10° 37′ W
 54° 15′ N, 10° 37′ W
 53° 30′ N, 11° 50′ W
 53° 30′ N, 13° 51′ WThose positions and the corresponding rhumb lines and vessel positions shall be measured according to the WGS84 standard.
2. Member States shall ensure that vessels holding a deep-sea fishing permit shall be properly monitored by the Fisheries Monitoring Centres (FMC), which shall have a system to detect and record the vessels’ entry into, transit through and exit from the areas defined in paragraph 1.
3. Vessels holding a deep-sea fishing permit that have entered the areas defined in paragraph 1 shall not retain on board or tranship any quantity of orange roughy, nor land any quantity of orange roughy at the end of that fishing trip unless:
— all gears carried on board are lashed and stowed during the transit in accordance with conditions laid down in Article 20(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93
— the average speed during transit is not less than 8 knots.
Article 8 
Each Member State shall ensure that for 2005 the fishing effort levels, measured in kilowatt days absent from port, by vessels holding deep-sea fishing permits do not exceed 90 % of the fishing effort deployed by its vessels in 2003 on trips when deep-sea fishing permits were held and deep sea species, as listed in Annex I and Annex II to Council Regulation (EC) No 2347/2002, excluding greater silver smelt, were caught.
Article 9 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply as from 1 January 2005.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 22 December 2004.
For the Council
The President
C. VEERMAN
ANNEX
Part 1
Within each area fish stocks are referred to following the alphabetical order of the Latin names of the species. A table of correspondences of common names and Latin names is given below for the purposes of this Regulation:


Common name Scientific name
Black scabbardfish Aphanopus carbo
Alfonsinos Beryx spp.
Tusk Brosme brosme
Roundnose grenadier Coryphaenoides rupestris
Orange roughy Hoplostethus atlanticus
Blue ling Molva dypterygia
Forkbeards Phycis blennoides
Red seabream Pagellus bogaraveo

Where reference is made to ‘deep sea sharks’, this shall refer to sharks in the following list of species: Portuguese dogfish (Centroscymnus coelolepis), Leafscale gulper shark (Centrophorus squamosus), Birdbeak dogfish (Deania calceus), Kitefin shark (Dalatias licha), Greater lanternshark (Etmopterus princeps), Velvet belly (Etmopterus spinax), Black dogfish (Centroscyllium fabricii), Gulper shark (Centrophorus granulosus), Blackmouth dogfish (Galeus melastomus), Mouse catshark (Galeus murinus), Iceland catshark (Apristuris spp.).

Part 2
All references are to ICES sub-areas unless otherwise stated.


SpeciesDeep Sea Sharks ZoneV, VI, VII, VIII, IX (Community waters and international waters)
Germany 161 
Spain 767 
Estonia 10 
France 2 775 
Ireland 448 
Lithuania 10 
Poland 10 
Portugal 1 044 
United Kingdom 1 538 
EC 6 763 


SpeciesDeep Sea Sharks ZoneX (Community waters and international waters)
Portugal 14 
EC 14 


SpeciesDeep Sea Sharks and Deania histricosa and Deania profondorum ZoneXII (Community waters and international waters)
Spain 169 
France 54 
Ireland 10 
United Kingdom 10 
EC 243 


SpeciesBlack scabbardfishAphanopus carbo ZoneI, II, III, IV (Community waters and international waters)
Germany 10 
France 10 
United Kingdom 10 
EC 30 


SpeciesBlack scabbardfishAphanopus carbo ZoneV, VI, VII, XII (Community waters and international waters)
Germany 35 
Spain 173
Estonia 17
France 2 433
Ireland 87
Latvia 113
Lithuania 1
Poland 1
United Kingdom 173
Others 9
EC 3 042



SpeciesBlack scabbardfishAphanopus carbo ZoneVIII, IX, X (Community waters and international waters)
Spain 13 
France 31 
Portugal 3 956 
EC 4 000 


SpeciesBlack scabbardfishAphanopus carbo ZoneCECAF 34.1.2. (Community waters and international waters)
Portugal 4 285 
EC 4 285 


SpeciesAlfonsinosBeryx spp. ZoneIII, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII (Community waters and international waters)
Spain 74 
France 20 
Ireland 10 
Portugal 214 
United Kingdom 10 
EC 328 


SpeciesTuskBrosme brosme ZoneI, II, XIV (Community waters and international waters)
Germany 10 
France 10
United Kingdom 10
Others 5
EG 35



SpeciesTuskBrosme brosme ZoneIII (Community waters and international waters)
Denmark 20 
Sweden 10 
Germany 10 
EC 40 


SpeciesTuskBrosme brosme ZoneIV (Community waters and international waters)
Denmark 85 
Germany 26
France 60
Sweden 9
United Kingdom 128
Others 9
EG 317



SpeciesTuskBrosme brosme ZoneV, VI, VII (Community waters and international waters)
Germany 9 
Spain 29
France 353
Ireland 34
United Kingdom 170
Others 9
EG 604



SpeciesRoundnose grenadierCoryphaenoides rupestris ZoneI, II, IV, Va (Community waters and international waters)
Denmark 2 
Germany 2 
France 14 
United Kingdom 2 
EC 20 


SpeciesRoundnose grenadierCoryphaenoides rupestris ZoneIII (Community waters and international waters)
Denmark 1 504 
Germany 9 
Sweden 77 
EC 1 590 


SpeciesRoundnose grenadierCoryphaenoides rupestris ZoneVb, VI, VII (Community waters and international waters)
Germany 9 
Estonia 73
Spain 74
France 3 736
Ireland 294
Latvia 32
Lithuania 131
Poland 676
United Kingdom 219
Others 9
EC 5 253



SpeciesRoundnose grenadierCoryphaenoides rupestris ZoneVIII, IX, X, XII, XIV (Community waters and international waters)
Germany 47 
Spain 5 165 
France 238 
Ireland 10 
United Kingdom 21 
Latvia 83 
Lithuania 10 
Poland 1 616 
EC 7 190 


SpeciesOrange roughyHoplostethus atlanticus ZoneVI (Community waters and international waters)
Spain 10 
France 58 
Ireland 10 
United Kingdom 10 
EC 88 


SpeciesOrange roughyHoplostethus atlanticus ZoneVII (Community waters and international waters)
Spain 9 
France 866
Ireland 255
United Kingdom 9
Others 9
EC 1 148



SpeciesOrange roughyHoplostethus atlanticus ZoneI, II, III, IV, V, VIII, IX, X, XII, XIV (Community waters and international waters)
Spain 10 
France 52 
Ireland 14 
Portugal 16 
United Kingdom 10 
EC 102 


SpeciesBlue lingMolva dypterygia ZoneII, IV, V (Community waters and international waters)
Denmark 9 
Germany 9
France 52
Ireland 9
United Kingdom 31
Others 9
EC 119



SpeciesBlue lingMolva dypterygia ZoneIII (Community waters and international waters)
Denmark 10 
Germany 5 
Sweden 10 
EC 25 


SpeciesBlue lingMolva dypterygia ZoneVI, VII (Community waters and international waters)
Germany 33 
Estonia 5
Spain 104
France 2 371
Ireland 9
Lithuania 2
Poland 1
United Kingdom 603
Others 9
EC 3 137



SpeciesRed seabreamPagellus bogaraveo ZoneVI, VII, VIII (Community waters and international waters)
Spain 238 
France 12
Ireland 9
United Kingdom 30
Others 9
EC 298



SpeciesRed seabreamPagellus bogaraveo ZoneIX (Community waters and international waters)
Spain 850 
Portugal 230 
EC 1 080 


SpeciesRed seabreamPagellus bogaraveo ZoneX (Community waters and international waters)
Spain 10 
Portugal 1 116 
United Kingdom 10 
EC 1 136 


SpeciesForkbeardsPhycis blennoides ZoneI, II, III, IV (Community waters and international waters)
Germany 10 
France 10 
United Kingdom 16 
EC 36 


SpeciesForkbeardsPhycis blennoides ZoneV, VI, VII (Community waters and international waters)
Germany 10 
Spain 588 
France 356 
Ireland 260 
United Kingdom 814 
EC 2 028 


SpeciesForkbeardsPhycis blennoides ZoneVIII, IX (Community waters and international waters)
Spain 242 
France 15 
Portugal 10 
EC 267 


SpeciesForkbeardsPhycis blennoides ZoneX, XII (Community waters and international waters)
France 10 
Portugal 43 
United Kingdom 10 
EC 63 
