S.I. No. 490/2011 - Sea-Fisheries (Common Fisheries Policy Community Control System) Regulations 2011

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S.I. No. 490 of 2011

SEA-FISHERIES (COMMON FISHERIES POLICY COMMUNITY CONTROL SYSTEM) REGULATIONS 2011

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 30th September, 2011.

I, SIMON CONVENEY, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 , 12 , 13 , 14 and 15 of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 (No. 8 of 2006) and the Sea- Fisheries, Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2007 ( S.I. No. 707 of 2007 ) (as adapted by the Agriculture and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2007 ( S.I. No. 705 of 2007 )), for the purpose of giving full effect to, Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009¹ , and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 404/2011 of 8 April 2011² hereby make the following regulations:

Citation

Interpretation

“2006 Act” means the Sea-Fisheries and Martime Jurisdiction Act 2006 (No. 8 of 2006) as amended;

“Commission Regulation” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 404/2011 of 8 April 2011;

“Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009;

“Legal Metrology Service” is the body established under the Metrology Act 1996 (Number 27 of 1996) as amended by Section 49 of Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act, 1998 (No. 34 of 1998);

“master” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 6 of Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 (No. 8 of 2006);

“operator” includes a transporter;

• (2) A word or expression that is used in the Commission Regulation or the Council Regulation or in the recitals thereto has the same meaning for the purpose of this Regulation.

Fishing Licence

Vessel Monitoring System

• (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Minister may exempt the master or owner of a Community fishing vessel to which Article 9(5) of the Council Regulation relates, from the obligation in paragraph (1) in accordance with Article 9(5) of the Council Regulation.

• (3) The Minister may authorise or oblige the master or owner of a fishing vessel to fit such vessel with a vessel monitoring system in accordance with Article 9(9) of the Council Regulation.

Completion and submission of the fishing logbook

• (2) A master of a fishing vessel shall complete a fishing logbook in accordance with Article 14 (8) of the Council Regulation.

Electronic completion and transmission of fishing logbook data and prior notification

• (2) A master of a Community fishing vessel to which Article 17(1) of the Council Regulation relates shall notify the information referred to in paragraph (1) to the fisheries monitoring centre in accordance with Article 17 of the Council Regulation.

• (3) The Minister may grant an exemption from paragraph (1) to a master of an Irish fishing vessel in accordance with Article 15 (4) of the Council Regulation.

Prior notification of landing in another Member State

Notification of fishing gear

• (2) The competent authority with the State for the purpose of Article 27 of the Council Regulation is the fisheries monitoring centre.

Fishing Effort report, Exemption and Exhaustion of fishing effort

• (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a person may operate a fishing vessel in accordance with Article 29 of the Council Regulation if he or she satisfies the conditions in that Article.

• (3) Without prejudice to paragraph (2), a person shall not operate a fishing vessel in contravention of Article 30 of the Council Regulation which refers to exhaustion of fishing effort.

Designated ports

• (2) A person shall not land pelagic fish referred to in Article 78 of the Commission Regulation except in a port referred to in paragraph (1).

Fishing Gear

Certification and approval of Weighing Equipment

• (2) An operator shall not use any equipment or system for weighing a fishery product unless it is certified by the Legal Metrology Service and approved by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority in accordance with Article 72 of the Commission Regulation.

Take-over declaration

• (2) An operator shall submit the information referred to in Article 66(1) and (3) and 67(1) of the Council Regulation, to the Minister in accordance with Article 66(1) and (3) and 67(1) of the Council Regulation.

Transport documents

• (2) An operator (other than those exempt under Article 68(8)) shall submit the information referred to in Article 68 of the Council Regulation to the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority in accordance with Article 68 of the Council Regulation.

• (3) The Minister may grant an exemption to an operator in accordance with Article 68(6) of the Council Regulation.

Inspections

• (2) A master of a fishing vessel shall not contravene Article 114(1) of the Commission Regulation which refers to the obligations of the master during an inspection.

Forgery

• (a) a logbook, landing declaration, transhipment declaration or transport document,

• (b) an entry in a logbook, landing declaration, transhipment declaration or transport document, or

• (c) a document purporting to be an extract of a logbook, landing declaration or transport document, (hereafter in this Regulation referred to as “a forged document”).

• (2) A person shall not alter with intent to defraud or deceive, or utter knowing it to be altered—

• (a) a logbook, landing declaration, transhipment declaration or transport document,

• (b) an entry in a logbook, landing declaration, transhipment declaration or transport document, or

• (c) a document purporting to be an extract of a logbook, landing declaration, transhipment declaration or transport document, (hereafter in this Regulation referred to as “an altered document”).

• (3) A person shall not have, without lawful authority, in his or her possession or under his or her control a forged document or an altered document.

Authorised Officers

Fisheries Monitoring Centre

• (2) A certificate purporting to be signed by an officer of the Naval Service to certify that on a specific day or days or during the whole of a specified period information required to be communicated was not received by the Fisheries Monitoring Centre is, without proof of the signature of the person purporting to sign the certificate or that he or she is an officer of the Naval Service, evidence, unless the contrary is shown, of the matters stated in the certificate and that the information was not transmitted.

Evidence on certificate

• (a) a person was or was not the holder of licence, registration or authorisation granted for the purposes of the Council Regulation or the Commission Regulation, or

• (b) that a particular licence, registration or authorisation referred to in this paragraph, was subject to a particular condition or conditions,

is, without proof of the signature of the person purporting to sign the certificate or that he or she is an officer of the Minister, evidence, unless the contrary is shown, of the matters stated in the certificate.

• (2) In proceedings for an offence consisting of a contravention of the

Council Regulation or the Commission Regulation, an inspection or surveillance report drawn up by a Community inspector or an official of another Member State or the Commission shall constitute admissible evidence of the matters stated in the inspection or surveillance report.

• (3) In proceedings for an offence under these Regulations the court may, if it considers that the interests of justice so require, direct that oral evidence of the matters stated in a certificate under paragraph (1) be given, and the court may for the purpose of receiving oral evidence adjourn the matter.

• (4) In proceedings for an offence, evidence of an act of the institutions of the European Union may be given by production of a copy of the act certified by an officer of the Minister to be a copy of the act, and it is not necessary to prove the signature of the officer or that he or she is an officer of the Minister.

• (5) Paragraphs (2) and (4) are in addition to and not in substitution for the European Communities (Judicial Notice and Documentary Evidence) Regulations 1972 ( S.I. No. 341 of 1972 ).

Single Authority

Contravention of these Regulations

Revocation

• (a) Sea Fisheries (Inspection Of Fishing Boats) Regulations 2006 S.I. No. 181 of 2006 ,

• (b) Sea Fisheries (Marking & Documentation Of Sea Fishing Boats) Regulations 2006 S.I. No. 182 of 2006 ,

• (c) Satellite-Based Vessel Monitoring Systems Regulations 2006 S.I. No. 183 of 2006 ,

• (d) Sea-Fisheries (First Marketing of Fish) Regulations 2007 S.I. No. 260 of 2007 ,

• (e) Sea-Fisheries (Landing & Weighing Of Pelagic Fish) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 453 of 2010 ),

• (f) The Sea-Fisheries (Recording Of Fish) Regulations 2011 ( S.I. No. 8 of 2011 ) and,

• (g) Sea-Fisheries (Recording Of Fish) (Amendment) 2011 S.I. No. 91 of 2011 .

SCHEDULE List of designated ports in the State for the purposes of Article 79 of the Commission Regulation are—

• (a) An Daingean (Dingle),

• (b) Baltimore,

• (c) Castletownbere,

• (d) Dunmore East,

• (e) Howth,

• (f) Killybegs,

• (g) Ringaskiddy,

• (h) Rossaveel.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

28 September 2011.

SIMON COVENEY,

Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Food.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

These Regulations, which relate to fisheries control systems and rules for the recording of fish catches, provide that a contravention of any provision of Commission Regulations is a contravention of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 .

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