{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1984/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1984/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2003/1984",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1984/2003 of 8 April 2003 introducing a system for the statistical monitoring of trade in bluefin tuna swordfish and bigeye tuna within the Community",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1984",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "1. This Regulation applies in relation to swordfish and bigeye tuna which is imported into the United Kingdom, transhipped at a United Kingdom port, or exported, or re-exported, from the United Kingdom.\n2. This Regulation does not apply to—\n(a) the import, transhipment, export or re-export of swordfish or bigeye tuna fish parts other than the meat and for these purposes “fish parts other than the meat” include heads, eyes, roes, guts and tails;\n(b) bigeye tuna caught by purse seiners or by baitboats which is destined to be processed and canned at a cannery in the ICCAT Convention area or in the IOTC Area of Competence.\n3. In this Article—\n(a) “purse seiner” means a fishing boat that uses a purse seine and “purse seine” has the same meaning as in Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures;\n(b) “baitboat” means a fishing boat using pole and line fishing with bait in the water to attract schools of tuna.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2 substituted (1.4.2024) by The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/1984/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:51.603175+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."
}