Division 1 The national programme of a Member State may exclude the estimation of the stock related variables for stocks for which TAC’s and quota have been defined under the following conditions:

the relevant quota must correspond to less than 10 % of the Community share of the TAC or to less than 200 tonnes on average during the previous three years;

the sum of relevant quotas of Member States whose allocation is less than 10 %, must account for less than 25 % of the Community share of the TAC.