Articles 51, 52 and 53 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 establish rules and procedures regarding the adoption of real-time closures by Member States. According to those provisions, Member States shall temporarily close the fishery in a certain area if a trigger catch level of a particular species, or group of species, has been reached.

Those provisions thus introduced in Regulation (EC) No 43/2009 applied to cod, haddock, saithe and whiting caught by any fishing gear other than pelagic trawls, purse seines, driftnets and jiggers targeting herring, mackerel and horse mackerel, and pots, scallop dredges and gillnets. In addition, they specified, inter alia, the obligations of the coastal Member States regarding the decisions on real-time closures and the information to be provided to other Member States and/or third countries concerned and the Commission.

Considering that the concerned provisions ceased to apply as from 1 January 2010, it is necessary to provide for the transposition of the Agreed Record by way of detailed rules implementing Articles 51, 52 and 53 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 in the North Sea and Skagerrak.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,