{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-1936/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-1936/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2001/1936",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1936/2001 of 27 September 2001 laying down control measures applicable to fishing for certain stocks of highly migratory fish",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-1936",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Purpose",
  "text": "This Regulation lays down control and inspection measures relating to fishing for stocks of the highly migratory fish species listed in Annex I to this Regulation and shall apply to United Kingdom fishing vessels operating in one of the zones specified in Article 2.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 6(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2001/1936/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:46.832168+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."
}