{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-746/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2009/746",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 9 October 2009 on a Community financial contribution towards Member States’ fisheries control, inspection and surveillance programmes for 2009 (notified under document C(2009) 7592) (Only the Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2009/746/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-746",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Automatic localisation devices",
  "text": "1. Expenditure incurred on the purchase and fitting on board of fishing vessels of automatic localisation devices enabling vessels to be monitored at a distance by a fisheries monitoring centre through a VMS shall qualify for a financial contribution of 95 % of the eligible expenditure, within the limits established in Annex II.\n2. The financial contribution referred to in paragraph 1 shall be limited to EUR 1 500 per vessel.\n3. In order to qualify for the financial contribution referred to in paragraph 1, automatic localisation devices shall satisfy the requirements laid down in Regulation (EC) No 2244/2003.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2009/746/article/4",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}