# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 404/2011 of 8 April 2011 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy, Article 13: Rules for buoys

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

1. The master of a United Kingdom fishing vessel or his representative shall ensure that two end marker buoys and intermediary marker buoys, rigged in accordance with Annex IV, are fixed to each passive gear used for fishing and are deployed in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
2. Each end marker buoy and intermediary buoy shall display the external registration letters and numbers displayed on the hull of the United Kingdom fishing vessel to which they belong and which has deployed such buoys as follows:
(a) letters and numbers shall be displayed as high above the water as possible so as to be clearly visible;
(b) in a colour contrasting with the surface on which they are displayed.
3. The letters and numbers displayed on the marker buoy shall not be effaced, altered or allowed to become illegible.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/404/article/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-404/article-13
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