Article 43 Designated ports

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Where a multiannual plan contains a threshold, applicable to the live weight of species subject to the plan, above which catches of such species must be landed in a designated port or place close to the shore, the master of a United Kingdom fishing vessel must ensure that landings of fish above the threshold are only made in a designated port or place close to the shore.

When the multiannual plan is applied in the framework of a regional fisheries management organisation, the landings or transhipments may take place in the ports of a Contracting Party or a non-contracting Cooperating Party of that organisation, in accordance with the rules laid down by that regional fisheries management organisation.

F3A fisheries administration must designate ports or places close to the shore in which landings referred to in paragraph 2 shall take place.

For a port or place close to the shore to be determined as a designated port, the following conditions shall be met:

Where a port or place close to the shore has been determined as a designated port for the landing of a given species subject to a multiannual plan, it may be used for the landing of any other species.

F4A fisheries administration is exempt from paragraph 5(c) if the F5... control action programme adopted in accordance with Article 46 contains a plan on how to perform control in designated ports, ensuring the same level of control by competent authorities. F6...