Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2264 of 1 September 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2024/2594 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards technical and control measures applicable in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries, and repealing Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 32/2012

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2024/2594 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2024 laying down conservation, management and control measures applicable in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1236/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulations (EEC) No 1899/85 and (EEC) No 1638/87 (1), and in particular Article 54(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The Union is a Contracting Party to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries (‘NEAFC’), approved by Council Decision 81/608/EEC (2).

(2) Regulation (EU) 2024/2594 implements into Union law the NEAFC conservation, management and control measures adopted until 2023.

(3) At its annual meeting in November 2024, the NEAFC adopted recommendations for the conservation, management and control of shallow pelagic and deep pelagic beaked redfish stocks in Irminger Sea and adjacent waters, pelagic beaked redfish in subareas 1 and 2 of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), and changes regarding the procedures for the notification of fishing vessels and officials with access to fisheries data for monitoring, control and surveillance. These recommendations should be implemented into Union law.

(4) Regulation (EU) 2024/2594 repealed Regulation (EU) No 1236/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3). Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 32/2012 (4) is now obsolete and should be repealed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EU) 2024/2594 is amended as follows:

(1) in Article 8, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1.   Member States shall send by electronic means to the Commission the information of all fishing vessels flying their flag and registered in the Union which they intend to authorise to conduct fishing activities in the Regulatory Area, including any vessel that conducts or plans to conduct refuelling or re-supplying to fishing vessels. That information shall be sent by 15 December each year for the following year or in any event before engaging in fishing activities in the Regulatory Area.’

(3) Annexes IV and V are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Delegated Regulation (EU) No 32/2012 is repealed.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 1 September 2025.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L, 2024/2594, 8.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2594/oj.

(2) Council Decision of 13 July 1981 concerning the conclusion of the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries (81/608/EEC) (OJ L 227, 12.8.1981, p. 21, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/1981/608/oj).

(3) Regulation (EU) No 1236/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 2010 laying down a scheme of control and enforcement applicable in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 2791/1999 (OJ L 348, 31.12.2010, p. 17, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1236/oj).

(4) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 32/2012 of 14 November 2011 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1236/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down a scheme of control and enforcement applicable in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries (OJ L 13, 17.1.2012, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2012/32/oj).