CHAPTER IIU.K.INSPECTIONS OF THIRD COUNTRY FISHING VESSELS IN [F1UNITED KINGDOM] PORTS

SECTION 1U.K.Conditions for access to port by third country fishing vessels

Article 6U.K.Prior notice

1.Masters of third country fishing vessels or their representatives shall notify the competent authorities of [F2a fisheries administration when they wish to use a port or landing facility designated under Article 5] at least three working days before the estimated time of arrival at the port, of the following information:

(a)vessel identification;

(b)name of the designated port of destination and the purposes of the call, landing, transhipment or access to services;

(c)fishing authorisation or, where appropriate, authorisation to support fishing operations or to tranship fishery products;

(d)dates of the fishing trip;

(e)estimated date and time of arrival at port;

(f)the quantities of each species retained on board or, where appropriate, a negative report;

(g)the zone or zones where the catch was made or where transhipment took place, whether in [F3United Kingdom] waters, in zones under the jurisdiction or sovereignty of a third country or on the high seas;

(h)the quantities for each species to be landed or transhipped.

Masters of third country fishing vessels or their representatives shall be exempted from notifying information contained in points (a), (c), (d), (g) and (h), where a catch certificate has been validated in accordance with Chapter III for the full catch to be landed or transhipped in the [F4United Kingdom].

2.The notification set out in paragraph 1 shall be accompanied by a catch certificate validated in accordance with Chapter III if the third country fishing vessel carries on board fishery products. The provisions laid down in [X1Article 13] on the recognition of catch documents or port State control forms which are part of catch documentation or port State control schemes adopted by regional fisheries management organisations shall apply mutatis mutandis.

3.[F5A fisheries administration may, by regulations,] exempt certain categories of third country fishing vessels from the obligation stipulated in paragraph 1 for a limited and renewable period, or make provision for another notification period taking into account, inter alia, the type of fishery product, the distance between the fishing grounds, landing places and ports where the vessels in question are registered or listed.

4.This Article shall apply without prejudice to special provisions set forth in fisheries agreements concluded between the [F6United Kingdom] and third countries.

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