Regulation (EU) 2018/973 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2018 establishing a multiannual plan for demersal stocks in the North Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks, specifying details of the implementation of the landing obligation in the North Sea and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 676/2007 and (EC) No 1342/2008 (c. 973)

CHAPTER IX U.K. MANAGEMENT OF STOCKS OF COMMON INTEREST

Article 13 U.K. Principles and objectives of management of stocks of common interest to the [F1 United Kingdom] and third countries

1. Where stocks of common interest are also exploited by third countries, [F2 the Secretary of State] shall engage with those third countries with a view to ensuring that those stocks are managed in a sustainable manner that is consistent with the objectives of F3 ... this Regulation. Where no formal agreement is reached, [F2 the Secretary of State] shall make every effort to reach common arrangements for fishing of such stocks with a view to making sustainable management possible F4 ....

F5 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 13 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 25(10)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in Art. 13(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(f), Sch. 11 para. 9(9)(a)(i) (with Sch. 4 para. 31, Sch. 11 para. 15(3))

F3 Words in Art. 13(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(f), Sch. 11 para. 9(9)(a)(ii) (with Sch. 4 para. 31, Sch. 11 para. 15(3))

F4 Words in Art. 13(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(f), Sch. 11 para. 9(9)(a)(iii) (with Sch. 4 para. 31, Sch. 11 para. 15(3))

F5 Art. 13(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(f), Sch. 11 para. 9(9)(b) (with Sch. 4 para. 31, Sch. 11 para. 15(3))