These arrangements provide new incentives for fishermen to moveaway from cod rich areas will help compensate for continued effort controls andthe need to change past fishing patterns.The Council also agreed byqualified majority a long term recovery plan for cod stocks, setting amechanism for deciding on multi-annual catch limits, and providing for annuallimits on fishing effort as in Annex V to the TAC Regulation. It explicitlyenables the Council to adjust the mechanism for fishing effort during 2004should it so wish and we have assurances from the commission about plans todiscuss further, during 2004, more flexible effort control measures.Restricting fishing effortis a key element in the approach to ensuring sustainability of fishing.