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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-848/annex/part-I/division-7/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2017/848",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision (EU) 2017/848 of 17 May 2017 laying down criteria and methodological standards on good environmental status of marine waters and specifications and standardised methods for monitoring and assessment, and repealing Decision 2010/477/EU (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-848",
  "path": "annex/part/I/division/7/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Criteria, including criteria elements, and methodological standards",
  "text": "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).\nCriteria elements\nCriteria\nMethodological standards\nContaminants listed in Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006.\nFor the purposes of this Decision, the 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.\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nD9C1 — Primary:\nThe 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:\n(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;\n(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.\nScale of assessment:\nThe catch or production area in accordance with Article 38 of Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council.\nUse of criteria:\nThe extent to which good environmental status has been achieved shall be expressed for each area assessed as follows:\nfor 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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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)."
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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."
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