The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1251 adopting a multiannual Union programme for the collection, management and use of data in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors for the period 2017-2019

17.—(1) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1251 adopting a multiannual Union programme for the collection, management and use of data in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors for the period 2017-2019 is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 1—

(a) omit “Union”; and

(b) for “Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 199/2008” substitute “Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1004”.

(3) Omit Article 3.

(4) In the Annex—

(a) in Chapter 1, in point (6) for “Union and its Member States” substitute “United Kingdom”;

(b) in Chapter 2, for “the common fisheries policy” substitute “fishing activity”;

(c) in Chapter 3—

(i) in point 1.1—

(aa) for “Member States shall” substitute “A fisheries administration must”,

(bb) for point (a) substitute—

“(a) biological data, by catch fraction, on stocks caught by United Kingdom commercial fisheries within and outside United Kingdom waters and by recreational fisheries within United Kingdom waters;”,

(cc) for point (b) substitute—

“(b) data to assess the impact of fisheries in United Kingdom waters on the marine ecosystem within and outside United Kingdom waters;”, and

(dd) for point (c) substitute—

“(c) detailed data on the activity of United Kingdom fishing vessels within and outside United Kingdom waters as reported under Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009;”,

(ii) for point 1.2 substitute—

“1.2.   The data to be collected must be established in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/1004.”,

(iii) in point 2, for the heading substitute—

“Biological data on stocks caught by United Kingdom fishing vessels in commercial fisheries within and outside United Kingdom waters and in recreational fisheries within United Kingdom waters”,

(iv) in point 3, for the heading substitute—

“Data to assess the impact of United Kingdom fisheries on marine ecosystems within and outside United Kingdom waters”,

(v) in point 3(a)—

(aa) for “Union” substitute “relevant”, and

(bb) for “Member States” substitute “a fisheries administration”,

(vi) in point 3(b) for “in Union waters and outside Union waters” substitute “within and outside United Kingdom waters”,

(vii) in point 3(c) for “Member States” substitute “a fisheries administration”,

(viii) in point 4, for the heading substitute—

“Detailed data on the activity of United Kingdom fishing vessels within and outside United Kingdom waters as recorded under Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009”,

(ix) for the first sentence substitute “Data to assess the activity of United Kingdom fishing vessels within and outside United Kingdom waters consist of the variables as indicated in Table 4.”,

(x) in point 5—

(aa) in the heading, for “Union fisheries sector” substitute “United Kingdom fisheries sector”, and

(bb) in point (a) for the second subparagraph substitute—

“The population must be all active and inactive vessels registered in the United Kingdom Fishing Fleet Register, as defined in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/218, on 31 December of the reporting year and vessels that do not appear on the Register at that date but have fished at least one day during the reporting year.”, and

(xi) in point 6—

(aa) in the heading, for “Union aquaculture sector” substitute “United Kingdom aquaculture sector”, and

(bb) in point (c) for “Member State” substitute “United Kingdom”;

(d) in Chapter 4—

(i) in point 2 for “Member States shall” substitute “A fisheries administration must”,

(ii) in point 3 for “Member States’” substitute “The United Kingdom’s”, and

(iii) in point 4—

(aa) for “Member States shall” substitute “A fisheries administration must”, and

(bb) for “their” substitute “its”; and

(e) omit Chapter 5.