ANNEX IICFISHING EFFORT FOR VESSELS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN CHANNEL SOLE STOCKS ICES ZONE VIIe

GENERAL PROVISIONS

1.Scope

1.1.

This Annex shall apply to EU vessels of 10 metres' length overall or more carrying on board or deploying any of the gears defined in point 3, and present in zone VIIe. For the purposes of this Annex, a reference to the 2010 management period means the period from 1 February 2010 to 31 January 2011.

1.2.

Vessels fishing with static nets with mesh size equal to or larger than 120 mm and with track records of less than 300 kg live weight of sole according to the fishing logbook in 2004 shall be exempt from the provisions of this Annex on the conditions that:

  1. (a)

    such vessels catch less than 300 kg live weight of sole during the 2010 management period;

  2. (b)

    such vessels shall not tranship any fish at sea to another vessel; and

  3. (c)

    each Member State concerned makes a report to the Commission by 31 July 2010 and 31 January 2011 on these vessels' track records for sole in 2004 and catches of sole in 2010.

When either of these conditions is not met, the vessels concerned shall with immediate effect cease to be exempted from the provisions of this Annex.

2.Fishing gear

For the purposes of this Annex, the following groupings of fishing gears shall apply:

  1. (a)

    beam trawls of mesh size equal to or greater than 80 mm;

  2. (b)

    static nets including gill-nets, trammel-nets and tangle-nets with mesh size less than 220 mm.

3.General obligations and limitation in activity

3.1.

Member States shall manage the maximum allowable effort in accordance with Articles 26 to 34 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.

3.2.

Article 28 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 shall apply to vessels falling under the scope of this Annex. The geographical area referred to in that Article shall be understood as the ICES zone VIIe.