{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1010/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1010/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/1010",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1010/2009 of 22 October 2009 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008 establishing a Community system to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1010",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Verifications",
  "text": "1. When the holder of an APEO certificate has advised a fisheries administration of the arrival of fishery products, the fisheries administration may, before the arrival of the consignment into the United Kingdom, notify the approved economic operator when, as a result of a risk analysis in accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008, the consignment has been selected for further verification. That notice shall only be provided where it does not jeopardise the verification to be carried out.\n2. The holder of an APEO certificate shall be subject to fewer physical and document-based verifications than other importers, unless a fisheries administration decides otherwise in order to take into account a specific risk, or control obligations set out in other ... legislation.\n3. Where, following a risk analysis, a fisheries administration selects for further examination a consignment accompanied by a catch certificate lodged by an approved economic operator, it shall carry out the necessary verifications as a matter of priority. If the approved economic operator so requests, and subject to agreement with the fisheries administration, those verifications may be carried out at a place which is different from the place of the office of the fisheries administration.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(14)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(14)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(14)(a)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(14)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Art. 20(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(14)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(14)(c)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(14)(c)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(14)(c)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1010/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:10.364681+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."
}