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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-638/annex-I/division-1/division-2/division-17/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2012/638",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 24 September 2012 confirming measures proposed by the Netherlands for the protection of marine areas of conservation in the North Sea Coastal Zone, the Vlakte van de Raan and the Voordelta (notified under document C(2012) 6510) (Only the Danish, Dutch, English, French and German texts are authentic) (2012/638/EU)",
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  "path": "annex/I/division/1/division/2/division/17/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "Partly to aid enforcement, commercial fishing vessels (depending on the length of the ship) must be equipped with activated operational AIS or VMS tracking devices or black boxes. Shell extraction vessels and mussel fishing vessels must have a black box. The black box system registers the vessel’s location at regular intervals; the pattern of these registrations will show whether the vessel was used for fishing or relaying purposes. Vessels shorter than 12 metres do not have to be equipped with such devices.",
  "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/2012/638/annex/I/division/1/division/2/division/17/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:20.233358+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}