EN Official Journal of the European Communities3.10.2001 L 263/1I(Acts whose publication is obligatory)COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1936/2001of 27 September 2001laying down control measures applicable to fishing for certain stocks of highly migratory fishTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the EuropeanCommunity, and in particular Article 37 thereof,Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),Whereas:(1) The Community has since 14 November 1997 been aContracting Party to the International Convention forthe Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (3) (hereinafterreferred to as the ICCAT Convention).(2) The ICCAT Convention provides a framework forregional cooperation on the conservation and manage-ment of resources of tuna and tuna-like fish in theAtlantic ocean and adjacent seas through an Inter-national Commission for the Conservation of AtlanticTunas (hereinafter referred to as ICCAT), an...