24/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - During the Agriculture-Fisheries Council of 22 November, Ireland, supported by Denmark, called on the Commission to provide, in the regulation on authorised catch volumes for 2006, for the possibility of transferring a part (up to 10%) of its quotas of mackerel stocks from one year to another, and, where necessary, to coordinate this transfer with other coastal states (Norway and Faro Islands). Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg answered that the 1996 regulation on TAC management allows 10% to be carried over on condition that there is a corresponding reduction the following year, but he pointed out that it was impossible to agree with the other coastal states on the matter. Norway is opposed to this kind of flexibility.