Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 737/2012 on the protection of certain stocks in the Celtic Sea
18.—(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 737/2012 on the protection of certain stocks in the Celtic Sea is amended as follows.
(2) In Article 1(1) for “fishing vessels” substitute “United Kingdom fishing vessels”.
(3) In Article 2—
(a)in paragraph 3 for “assessed by the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) as having” substitute “authorised by a fisheries administration, where scientific evidence confirms that the configuration has”;
(b)in paragraph 4 for “assessed by the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) as having” substitute “authorised by a fisheries administration, where scientific evidence confirms that the configuration has”; and
(c)in paragraph 6—
(i)for “their flag Member State” substitute “a fisheries administration”, and
(ii)for “The flag Member State shall” substitute “A fisheries administration must”.
(4) In Article 3—
(a)for paragraph 1 substitute—
“1. Where United Kingdom fishing vessels are affected by the technical measures referred to in Article 2, a fisheries administration must immediately establish an on board observer programme to record the effectiveness of those measures for vessels in its fleet. In particular, the observer programme must estimate haddock, whiting and cod catches and discards with a precision of no less than 20%.”; and
(b)omit paragraph 2.
(5) Omit Article 4.