Regulation (EU) 2019/833 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2019 laying down conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation, amending Regulation (EU) 2016/1627 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2115/2005 and (EC) No 1386/2007 (c. 833)

CHAPTER IX U.K. NON-CONTRACTING PARTY

Article 44 U.K. Presumption of IUU fishing

A non-Contracting Party vessel shall be presumed to have undermined the effectiveness of this Regulation, and to have engaged in IUU fishing, if it has been:

(a)

sighted or identified by other means as engaged in fishing activities in the Regulatory Area;

(b)

involved in transhipment with another non-Contracting Party vessel sighted or identified as engaged in fishing activities inside or outside the Regulatory Area; and/or

(c)

included in the IUU list of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (‘NEAFC’)(1).

(1)

The Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries signed in London on 18 November 1980 and entered into force on 17 March 1982 to which European Community acceded on 13 July 1981 (OJ L 227, 12.8.1981, p. 22).