{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1986/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1986/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/1986",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1986 of 13 December 2018 establishing specific control and inspection programmes for certain fisheries and repealing Implementing Decisions 2012/807/EU, 2013/328/EU, 2013/305/EU and 2014/156/EU",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1986",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Objectives",
  "text": "1. The specific control and inspection programmes shall ensure a uniform and effective implementation of the conservation and control measures applicable to stocks and fisheries referred to in Annexes I to V.\n2. Control and inspection activities carried out under each specific control and inspection programme shall in particular aim at ensuring compliance with the following provisions:\n(a) fishing opportunities management and any specific conditions associated therewith, including the monitoring of quota uptake, effort regime and technical measures applied in the areas concerned;\n(b) reporting obligations applicable to fishing activities, in particular the reliability of the information recorded and reported;\n(c) the obligation to land all catches of species subject to the landing obligation pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, and the measures to reduce discarding provided for in Title IIIa of Council Regulation (EC) No 850/98;\n(d) the special rules for weighing of certain pelagic species provided for in Articles 78 to 89 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 404/2011;\n(e) specific provisions approved by Regional Fisheries Management Organizations regarding the stocks and the areas concerned by this Decision.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Regulation (EC) No 850/98 of 30 March 1998 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms (OJ L 125, 27.4.1998, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 404/2011 of 8 April 2011 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (OJ L 112, 30.4.2011, p. 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/1986/article/3",
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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."
}