# 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 19: Characteristics of satellite-tracking devices

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

1. The satellite-tracking device installed on board United Kingdom fishing vessels shall ensure the automatic transmission to the FMC of a fisheries administration, at regular intervals, of data relating to:
(a) the fishing vessel identification;
(b) the most recent geographical position of the fishing vessel, with a position error which shall be less than 500 metres, with a confidence interval of 99 %;
(c) the date and time (expressed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)) of the fixing of the said position of the fishing vessel; and
(d) the instant speed and course of the fishing vessel.
2. A fisheries administration must ensure that satellite-tracking devices are protected against input or output of false positions and cannot be manually over-ridden.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/404/article/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-404/article-19
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