28.12.2010   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 354/66


Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing a long-term plan for the northern stock of hake and the fisheries exploiting that stock’

COM(2009) 122 final — 2009/0039 (CNS) (1)

2010/C 354/11

The Council and the European Parliament decided on 18 January 2010 and 5 March 2010, respectively, to consult the European Economic and Social Committee, under Article 43 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (ex Article 37 of the Treaty establishing the European Community), on the

Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing a long-term plan for the northern stock of hake and the fisheries exploiting that stock

COM(2009) 122 final — 2009/0039 (CNS) (1).

Since the Committee endorses the contents of the proposal and feels that it requires no comment on its part, it decided, at its 461st plenary session, held on 17 and 18 March 2010 (meeting of 17 March 2010), unanimously to issue an opinion endorsing the proposed text.

Brussels, 17 March 2010.

The President of the European Economic and Social Committee

Mario SEPI


(1)  The acronym should read COD.