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.