Division Criteria, including criteria elements, and methodological standards

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Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1184/2006 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 1).
Criteria elements	Criteria	Methodological standards
Contaminants listed in Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006. For the purposes of this Decision, F1the Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, may decide not to consider contaminants from Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 where justified on the basis of a risk assessment. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, may assess additional contaminants that are not included in Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, shall establish a list of those additional contaminants through regional or subregional cooperation. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, shall establish the list of species and relevant tissues to be assessed, according to the conditions laid down under ‘specifications’. They may cooperate at regional or subregional level to establish that list of species and relevant tissues.	D9C1 — Primary: The level of contaminants in edible tissues (muscle, liver, roe, flesh or other soft parts, as appropriate) of seafood (including fish, crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms, seaweed and other marine plants) caught or harvested in the wild (excluding fin-fish from mariculture) does not exceed: (a) for contaminants listed in Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006, the maximum levels laid down in that Regulation, which are the threshold values for the purposes of this Decision; (b) for additional contaminants, not listed in Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006, threshold values, which the Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, shall establish through regional or subregional cooperation.	Scale of assessment: The catch or production area in accordance with Article 38 of Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f1. Use of criteria: The extent to which good environmental status has been achieved shall be expressed for each area assessed as follows: for each contaminant, its concentration in seafood, the matrix used (species and tissue), whether the threshold values set have been achieved, and the proportion of contaminants assessed which have achieved their threshold values.

Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1184/2006 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 1).

Criteria elements

Criteria

Methodological standards

Contaminants listed in Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006.

For the purposes of this Decision, F1the Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, may decide not to consider contaminants from Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 where justified on the basis of a risk assessment.

The Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, may assess additional contaminants that are not included in Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, shall establish a list of those additional contaminants through regional or subregional cooperation.

The Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, shall establish the list of species and relevant tissues to be assessed, according to the conditions laid down under ‘specifications’. They may cooperate at regional or subregional level to establish that list of species and relevant tissues.

D9C1 — Primary:

The level of contaminants in edible tissues (muscle, liver, roe, flesh or other soft parts, as appropriate) of seafood (including fish, crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms, seaweed and other marine plants) caught or harvested in the wild (excluding fin-fish from mariculture) does not exceed:

(a)
for contaminants listed in Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006, the maximum levels laid down in that Regulation, which are the threshold values for the purposes of this Decision;
(b)
for additional contaminants, not listed in Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006, threshold values, which the Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, shall establish through regional or subregional cooperation.

Scale of assessment:

The catch or production area in accordance with Article 38 of Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f1.

Use of criteria:

The extent to which good environmental status has been achieved shall be expressed for each area assessed as follows:

for each contaminant, its concentration in seafood, the matrix used (species and tissue), whether the threshold values set have been achieved, and the proportion of contaminants assessed which have achieved their threshold values.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Decision substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marine Environment (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1399), reg. 5(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1184/2006 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 1).

Notes on Annex 1

Textual amendments

F1: Annex renumbered as Annex 1 (31.12.2020) by The Marine Environment (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1399), regs. 1, 12(1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in Annex 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marine Environment (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1399), regs. 1, 12(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Notes on Part I

Footnotes

f1: When this Decision refers to a ‘descriptor’, this refers to the relevant qualitative descriptors for determining good environmental status, as indicated under the numbered points in Annex I to Directive 2008/56/EC.

Notes on Division Descriptor 9

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Annex 1 Pt. 1 Descriptor 9 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marine Environment (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1399), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 6(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Word in Annex 1 Pt. 1 Descriptor 9 heading substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 117(2)(d)