{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1010/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1010/article-21.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/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "General provisions",
  "text": "1. The APEO certificate shall take effect on the tenth working day after the date of its issue. Its period of validity shall not be limited.\n2. The APEO certificate shall only be valid in the United Kingdom.\n3. A fisheries administration shall monitor compliance with the criteria laid down in Articles 9 to 13.\n4. In the case of an APEO certificate issued to an applicant established for less than three years, close monitoring shall take place during the first year after issue.\n5. A reassessment of the compliance with the criteria referred to in Articles 9 to 13 shall be carried out by the issuing fisheries administration in the following cases:\n(a) major changes to the relevant ... legislation;\n(b) reasonable indication that the relevant criteria are no longer met by the approved economic operator.\n6. Article 16(4) shall apply to the reassessment.\n7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(15)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(15)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(15)(c)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Art. 21(5)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(15)(c)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 21(7) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 12(15)(d); 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/21",
    "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."
}