Effort groups are defined by one of the gear groupings set out in point 1 and one of the geographical areas set out in point 2.
Bottom trawls and seines (OTB, OTT, PTB, SDN, SSC, SPR) of mesh:
TR1 equal to or larger than 100 mm,
TR2 equal to or larger than 70 mm and less than 100 mm,
TR3 equal to or larger than 16 mm and less than 32 mm;
Beam trawls (TBB) of mesh:
BT1 equal to or larger than 120 mm
BT2 equal to or larger than 80 mm and less than 120 mm;
Gill nets, entangling nets (GN);
Trammel nets (GT);
Longlines (LL).
For the purposes of this Annex, the following geographical groupings shall apply:
Kattegat;
Skagerrak;
that part of ICES zone IIIa not covered by the Skagerrak and the Kattegat;
ICES zone IV and EC waters of ICES zone IIa;
ICES zone VIId;
ICES zone VIIa;
ICES zone VIa.
Member States shall specify and describe which sampling strategy will be applied.
The Commission can have access on request to the sampling plan used by the Member State.
Level of inspection in ports
As a general rule, the accuracy to be achieved should be at least equivalent to what would be obtained by a simple random sampling method, where inspections shall cover 20 % in number of all cod landings in a Member State.
Level of inspection of marketing
Inspection of 5 % of the quantities of cod offered for sale at auction.
Level of inspection at sea
Flexible benchmark: to be set after a detailed analysis of the fishing activity in each area. Benchmarks at sea shall refer to the number of patrol days at sea in the cod management areas, possibly with a separate benchmark for days patrolling specific areas.
Level of aerial surveillance
Flexible benchmark: to be set after a detailed analysis of the fishing activity conducted in each area and taking the available resources at the Member State’s disposal into consideration.
National control action programmes shall aim, inter alia, to specify the following:
Description of the systems implemented to ensure compliance with Articles 19, 23, 24 and 25.
Where relevant, a list of ports designated for cod landings in accordance with Article 25.
Description of the systems implemented to ensure compliance with Article 24.
Description of any facilities and or systems implemented to ensure compliance with the provisions in Articles 19, 20, 21 and 28.
The national control action programmes shall specify the procedures that will be followed:
when conducting inspections at sea and on land;
for communicating with the competent authorities designated by other Member States as responsible for the national control action programme for cod;
for joint surveillance and exchange of inspectors, including specification of powers and authority of inspectors operating in other Member States’ waters.
Line referred to in Article 13 paragraph 2(d)
The line referred to in Article 13 paragraph 2(d) is defined by sequentially joining with rhumb lines the following positions according to the WGS84 coordinate system:
54 °30′N, 10 °35′W
55 °20′N, 9 °50′W
55 °30′N, 9 °20′W
56 °40′N, 8 °55′W
57 °0′N, 9 °0′W
57 °20′N, 9 °20′W
57 °50′N, 9 °20′W
58 °10′N, 9 °0′W
58 °40′N, 7 °40′W
59 °0′N, 7 °30′W
59 °20′N, 6 °30′W
59 °40′N, 6 °5′W
59 °40′N, 5 °30′W
60 °0′N, 4 °50′W
60 °15′N, 4 °0′W.