# Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 of 20 November 2009 establishing a Union control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy, amending Regulations (EC) No 847/96, (EC) No 2371/2002, (EC) No 811/2004, (EC) No 768/2005, (EC) No 2115/2005, (EC) No 2166/2005, (EC) No 388/2006, (EC) No 509/2007, (EC) No 676/2007, (EC) No 1098/2007, (EC) No 1300/2008, (EC) No 1342/2008 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2847/93, (EC) No 1627/94 and (EC) No 1966/2006, Article 95: Specific control and inspection programmes

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. A fisheries administration may, by regulations, determine which fisheries shall be subject to specific control and inspection programmes.
2. The specific control and inspection programmes referred to in paragraph 1 shall state the objectives, priorities and procedures as well as benchmarks for inspection activities. Such benchmarks shall be established based on risk management and revised periodically after an analysis has been made of the results achieved.
3. When a multiannual plan has entered into force and before a specific control and inspection programme has become applicable, a fisheries administration must establish risk management based target benchmarks for inspection activities.
4. The fisheries administration concerned must adopt the necessary measures to ensure the implementation of the specific control and inspection programmes, particularly as regards required human and material resources and the periods and zones where these are to be deployed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1224/article/95 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1224/article-95
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