Article 9 Vessel monitoring system

F1A fisheries administration must operate a satellite-based vessel monitoring system for effective monitoring of fishing activities of F2its fleet wherever those vessels may be and of fishing activities in F3United Kingdom waters.

Without prejudice to specific provisions contained in multiannual plans, a fishing vessel of 12 metres’ length overall or more shall have installed on board a fully functioning device which allows that vessel to be automatically located and identified through the vessel monitoring system by transmitting position data at regular intervals. It shall also allow the fisheries monitoring centre of F4a fisheries administration to poll the fishing vessel. For fishing vessels of 12 metres’ length overall or more and less than 15 metres’ length overall this Article shall apply as from 1 January 2012.

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If a F6United Kingdom fishing vessel operates in the waters of a third country or in areas of the high sea where the fishing resources are managed by an international organisation and, if the agreement with that third country or the applicable rules of that international organisation so provide, those data shall also be made available to that country or organisation.

A F7fisheries administration may exempt F8United Kingdom fishing vessels of less than 15 metres’ length overall F9... from the requirement to be fitted with a vessel monitoring system if they:

Third country fishing vessels of 12 metres’ length overall or more and third country auxiliary fishing vessels engaged in activities ancillary to fishing activities operating in F11F12United Kingdom waters shall have installed on board a fully functioning device which allows such a vessel to be automatically located and identified by the vessel monitoring system by transmitting position data at regular intervals in the same way as United Kingdom fishing vessels.

A fisheries administration must establish and operate a fisheries monitoring centre, which must monitor fishing activities and fishing effort. The fisheries monitoring centre must monitor the fisheries administration's fleet whatever the waters in which they are operating or the port they are in, as well as other fishing vessels to which vessel monitoring systems apply when they are operating within United Kingdom waters.

F14A fisheries administration must appoint the competent authorities responsible for the fisheries monitoring centre and shall take the appropriate measures to ensure that its fisheries monitoring centre has the proper staffing resources and is equipped with computer hardware and software enabling automatic data processing and electronic data transmission. F15A fisheries administration must provide for back-up and recovery procedures in case of system failure. F16...

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A fisheries administration may make regulations specifying detailed rules for the application of this Article.