{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-977/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-977/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2009/977",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 16 December 2009 on a Community financial contribution for 2009 towards expenditure incurred by Member States for certain projects in the field of fisheries control, inspection and surveillance (notified under document C(2009) 9935) (Only the Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish and English texts are authentic) (2009/977/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-977",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Electronic recording and reporting devices",
  "text": "1. Expenditure incurred, in respect of projects referred to in Annex IV, on the purchase and fitting on board of fishing vessels of ERS devices enabling vessels to record and report electronically to a Fisheries Monitoring Centre data on fisheries activities, shall qualify for a financial contribution of 95 % of the eligible expenditure, within the limits established in that Annex.\n2. The financial contribution referred to in paragraph 1 shall be limited to EUR 3 000 per vessel, without prejudice to paragraph 4.\n3. In order to qualify for a financial contribution, ERS devices shall satisfy the requirements established pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1077/2008.\n4. In case of devices combining ERS and VMS functions, and fulfilling the requirements laid down in Regulations (EC) No 2244/2003 and (EC) No 1077/2008, the financial contribution referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be limited to EUR 4 500.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2009/977/article/6",
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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."
}