The Sea Fishing (Transitional EU Technical Conservation Measures) (Scotland) Order 2010

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“British sea-fishery officer” has the same meaning as in section 7 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968(1);

“equivalent provision” means any provision in any other Order made under section 30(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981 for the purpose of implementing an EU technical conservation measure, which extends to any part of the United Kingdom and has equivalent effect to a provision in this Order, proceedings in respect of which may be commenced in any place in the United Kingdom by virtue of section 30(2A) of the Fisheries Act 1981;

“EU technical conservation measure” means a provision of Annex III to the Council Regulation specified in column 1 of Schedule 1, as read with any qualifying words relating to the provision in that column;

“fishery product” includes fish;

“ICES” followed by a roman numeral with or without a letter is to be construed as a reference to whichever of the statistical sub-areas and divisions of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea(2) is identified therein by that roman numeral or that roman numeral and letter as the case may be;

“logbook” has the same meaning as in Article 6 of Regulation 2847/93 (as read with Regulation 2807/83) and for the purposes of this Order, any reference to a logbook, declaration or document includes, in addition to a logbook, declaration or document in writing any—

(a)

map, plan, graph or drawing;

(b)

photograph;

(c)

data, however reproduced, communicated via a satellite-based vessel monitoring system established under Article 9 of Regulation 1224/2009;

(d)

data, however reproduced, communicated to a fisheries monitoring centre established under Article 9(7) of Regulation 1224/2009;

(e)

disk, tape, sound track or other device on which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are recorded so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced; and

(f)

film (including microfilm), negative, tape, disk or other device on which one or more visual images are recorded so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced;

“person in charge” means the master, owner or charterer or the agent of the master, owner or charterer;

“Regulation 2807/83” means Commission Regulation (EEC) 2807/83 of 22 September 1983 laying down detailed rules for recording information on Member States’ catches of fish(3);

“Regulation 2847/93” means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy(4);

“Regulation 1224/2009” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy, amending Regulations (EC) No. 847/96, (EC) No. 2371/2002, (EC) No. 811/2004, (EC) No. 768/2005, (EC) No. 2115/2005, (EC) No. 2166/2005, (EC) No. 388/2006, (EC) No. 509/2007, (EC) No. 676/2007, (EC) No. 1098/2007, (EC) No. 1300/2008, (EC) No. 1342/2008 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No. 2847/93, (EC) No. 1627/94 and (EC) No. 1966/2006(5);

“Regulation 1288/2009” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1288/2009 of 27 November 2009 establishing transitional technical measures from 1 January 2010 to 30 June 2011(6);

“relevant offence” means an offence under article 3 of this Order, or under any equivalent provision;

“Scotland” and “the Scottish zone” have the same meanings assigned to those terms by section 126(1) of the Scotland Act 1998(7);

“Scottish fishing boat” means a fishing vessel which is registered in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(8) and whose entry in the register specifies a port in Scotland as the port to which the vessel is to be treated as belonging;

“the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 43/2009 of 16 January 2009 fixing for 2009 the fishing opportunities and associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Community waters and, for Community vessels, in waters where catch limitations are required(9), as amended from time to time.

(2) In this Order, any reference to a—

(a) numbered article is a reference to the article so numbered in this Order;

(b) numbered paragraph is, except where specified as a numbered paragraph of an Annex to the Council Regulation, a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the article in which it appears in this Order;

(c) numbered Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to this Order so numbered; and

(d) numbered Annex (or paragraph thereof) is, except where otherwise indicated, a reference to the Annex (or paragraph thereof) so numbered in the Council Regulation.

(3) Column 2 of Schedule 1 (which provides an indication of the subject matter of each EU technical conservation measure) is not to be read as limiting the scope of any EU technical conservation measure and is to be disregarded in relation to any question arising as to the construction of this Order.

(4) Any information provided to any authority for the purposes of any provision of this Order is to be treated as also provided for the purposes of any equivalent provision.

(5) Expressions used in this Order that appear or are referred to in the Council Regulation, and which are not defined in this Order, have the same meaning in this Order as in that Regulation.

(1)

1968 c.77; section 7 is relevantly amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820), Schedule 2, paragraph 48(3); the Fisheries Act 1981 (c.29), section 46; and the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c.23), section 239 and Schedule 22, Part 6.

(2)

Cmnd. 2586.

(3)

O.J. No. L 276, 10.10.83, p.1 as corrected by a Corrigendum published in O.J. No. L 353, 15.12.83, p.21 and as amended by Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, O.J. No. L 302, 15.11.85, p.23; Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 473/89, O.J. No. L 53, 25.2.89, p.34; Act of Accession of Austria, Sweden and Finland, O.J. No. C241, 29.8.94, p.21 (adapted by Council Decision 95/1/EC, Euratom, ECSC, O.J. No. L 1, 1.1.95, p.1); Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 2945/95, O.J. No. L 308, 21.12.95, p.18; Commission Regulation (EC) No. 395/98, O.J. No. L 50, 20.2.98, p.17; Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1488/98, O.J. No. L 196, 14.7.98, p.3; Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2737/1999, O.J. No. L 328, 22.12.99, p.54 (corrected by two Corrigenda, published in O.J. No. L 12, 18.1.00, p.36 and O.J. No. L 29, 4.2.00, p.38); Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1965/2001, O.J. No. L 268, 9.10.01, p.23; Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1804/2005, O.J. No. L 290, 4.11.05, p.10 and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 409/2009, O.J. No. L 123, 19.5.09, p.78.

(4)

O.J. No. L 261, 20.10.93, p.1 as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 2870/95, O.J. No. L 301, 14.12.95, p.1; Council Decision 95/528/EC, O.J. No. L 301, 14.12.95, p.35 (corrected by a Corrigendum published in O.J. No. L 302, 15.12.95, p.45); Council Regulation (EC) No. 2489/96, O.J. No. L 338, 28.12.96, p.12; Council Regulation (EC) No. 686/97, O.J. No. L 102, 19.4.97, p.1; Council Regulation (EC) No. 2205/97, O.J. No. L 304, 7.11.97, p.1; Council Regulation (EC) No. 2635/97, O.J. No. L 356, 31.12.97, p.14; Council Regulation (EC) No. 2846/98, O.J. No. L 358, 31.12.98, p.5 (corrected by a Corrigendum published in O.J. No. L 105, 22.4.99, p.32); Council Regulation (EC) No. 806/2003, O.J. No. L 122, 16.5.03, p.1; Council Regulation (EC) No. 1954/2003, O.J. No. L 289, 7.11.03, p.1; Council Regulation (EC) No. 768/2005, O.J. No. L 128, 21.5.05, p.1; Council Regulation (EC) No. 1967/2006, O.J. No. L 409, 30.12.06, p.11 (corrected by a Corrigendum published in O.J. No. L 36, 8.2.07, p.6); Council Regulation (EC) No. 1098/2007, O.J. No. L 248, 22.9.07, p.1; Council Regulation (EC) No. 1005/2008, O.J. No. L 286, 29.10.08, p.1; Council Regulation (EC) No. 1006/2008, O.J. No. L 286, 29.10.08, p.33 and as read with Article 20, and modified by Articles 28 and 29, of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1342/2008, O.J. No. L 348, 24.12.08, p.20. With the exception of certain provisions, including Articles 6, 8, 11 and 13, Regulation 2847/93 has been repealed by Article 122(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009, O.J. No. L 343, 22.12.09, p.1.

(5)

O.J. No. L 343, 22.12.09, p.1. Regulation 1224/2009 replaces Regulation 2847/93, although some of its provisions come into force in stages (either on specific dates or pending implementation of EU detailed rules).

(6)

O.J. No. L 347, 24.12.09, p.6.

(7)

1998 c.46. The sea within British fishery limits (that is, the limits set by or under section 1 of the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c.86)) which is adjacent to Scotland is determined by the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1126).

(8)

1995 c.21.

(9)

O.J. No. L 22, 26.1.09, p.1 as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 302/2009, O.J. No. L 96, 15.4.09, p.1; Commission Regulation (EC) No. 517/2009, O.J. No. L 155, 18.6.09, p.9; Commission Regulation (EC) No. 593/2009, O.J. No. L 178, 9.7.09, p.12; Commission Regulation (EC) No. 709/2009, O.J. No. L 204, 6.8.09, p.12; Council Regulation (EC) No. 753/2009, O.J. No. L 214, 19.8.09, p.1 and Council Regulation (EC) No. 1288/2009, O.J. No. L 347, 24.12.09, p.6.