Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents12

1

Any–

a

logbook kept under Articles 6, 17.2 or 28c;

b

declaration submitted under Articles 8.1, 11, 12, 17.2 or 28f;

c

effort report completed under Articles 19b and 19c;

d

document drawn up under Articles 9 or 13;

e

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

of the Council Regulation shall, in any proceedings for a relevant offence, be received in evidence without being produced or sworn to by any witness and shall be sufficient evidence of the matters stated therein.

2

For the purposes of paragraph (1), “required information” shall mean data relating to–

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 the Council Regulation.