# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1867 of 19 October 2015 amending Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 as regards the landing obligation, Article 1

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

Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 is amended as follows:
(1) the following Article 1a is inserted:
‘Article 1a For the purposes of this Regulation, “unintended catches” means incidental catches of marine organisms that, under Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, must be landed and counted against quotas either because they are below the minimum conservation reference size or because they exceed the quantities permitted under the catch composition and by-catch rules.’;
(2) in Article 2, the following paragraph 3 is added:
‘3. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to unintended catches of hake subject to the landing obligation set out in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013. Those unintended catches shall be landed and counted against the quotas’.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/1867/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-1867/article-1
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