No L 364/64 Official - Journal of .the European Communities 14. 12. 89 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DECISION of 27 November 1989 on a Community financial contribution towards expenditure incurred by Member States for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the Community system for the conservation and management of fishery resources (89/631/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ('), Having regard to the opinion - of the European Parliament (?), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas the common fisheries policy, which guarantees the long-term existence of fishery stocks and thus employment in this sector, can achieve its objectives only if its rules are complied with absolutely and thus if enforcement is effective ; Whereas the Member States, in ensuring compliance with the conservation and control rules of the common fisheries policy within their fishery zones and on their territory, are carrying out -an ‘obligation of Community interest ; Whereas for some Member States the scale of the enforcement task is unrelated :to budgetary capacity or - relative prosperity and may ‘in-certain cases constitute a disproportionate burden ; Whereas it is. therefore appropriate to provide for a contri- bution by. the Community towards certain enforcement expenditure incurred by certain of those Member States ; () OJ No C 152, 20. 6. 1989, p. S. () OJ No C 120, 16. 5. 1989, p. 235. () OJ No C 139, S. 6. 1989, p. 36. Whereas the total Community contribution = should remain within the limits of a budgetary provision of ECU 22 million per annum over an initial period of five years and the corresponding financial resources will be entered as annual appropriations in the general budget of “the European Communities ; Whereas any such contribution should be conditional on the attainment, by the Member States which are benefi- ciaries, of a satisfactory standard of enforcement both at - sea and on land, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 1. The Community shall, under the conditions laid down in the Annex, contribute to the. financing of the expenditure incurred by Member States in enforcing the Community arrangements for the conservation and - management of fishery resources. Pending the adoption of Community rules for the conser- vation and management of fishery resources applicable in Mediterranean: waters, the Community shall, on a provisional basis until 31 December 1991, contribute under the same conditions as those set out in this - Decision to the financing of the expenditure incurred by the Member States concerned to ensure compliance with the applicable rules. Member States which wish t6 benefit - from this contribution shall notify such rules to the Commission and justify their merits. 2. The Community contribution shall relate to eligible expenditure incurred by Member States from 1 January 1991 to 31 December 1995.