Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents12

1

Any –

a

logbook kept under Article 6, 17.2 or 28c;

b

declaration submitted under Article 8.1, 12, 17.2 or 28f;

c

effort report completed under Articles 19b and 19c;

d

document drawn up under Article 9 or 13;

e

document containing required information received by a fisheries monitoring centre established under Article 3.7,

of Council Regulation 2847/93 shall, in any proceedings for a relevant offence, be evidence of the matters stated therein.

2

For the purpose of paragraph (1), “required information” shall mean –

a

a fishing boat’s identification,

b

the most recent geographical position of the fishing boat expressed in degrees and minutes of longitude and latitude, and

c

the date and time of the fixing of that position,

as communicated via a satellite-based vessel monitoring system established under Article 3.1 of Council Regulation 2847/93.