Article 1

Regulation (EU) 2015/104 is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   Article 2 is replaced by the following:

   ‘Scope

   Article 2

   1.

   This Regulation shall apply to the following vessels:

   (a)

   Union vessels;

   (b)

   third-country vessels in Union waters.

   2.

   For the purpose of Article 11a, this Regulation shall also apply to recreational fisheries.’

2. (2)

   In Article 3, the following point is added:

   ‘(m)

   “recreational fisheries” means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine living aquatic resources such as for recreation, tourism or sport.’.

3. (3)

   Article 7 is replaced by the following:

   ‘Conditions for landing catches and by-catches

   Article 7

   1.

   Catches of species which are subject to catch limits and which have been caught in fisheries specified in point (a) of Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 are subject to the landing obligation, as established in Article 15 of that Regulation (“the landing obligation”).

   2.

   Fish subject to catch limits caught in fisheries not subject to the landing obligation shall be retained on board or landed only if:

   (a)

   the catches have been taken by vessels flying the flag of a Member State having a quota and that quota is not exhausted; or

   (b)

   the catches consist of a share in a Union quota which has not been allocated by quota among Member States, and that Union quota has not been exhausted.

   3.

   The stocks of non-target species within safe biological limits referred to in Article 15(8) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 are identified in Annex I to this Regulation for the purposes of the derogation from the obligation to count catches against the relevant quotas provided for in that Article.’.

4. (4)

   The following Article is inserted:

   ‘Recreational sea bass fisheries in the north-east Atlantic

   Article 11a

   In recreational fisheries in ICES divisions IVb, IVc, VIIa, VIId, VIIe, VIIf, VIIg, VIIh, VIIj and VIIk not more than three specimens of sea bass may be retained per person per day.’.

5. (5)

   Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2015/104 is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.

6. (6)

   Annex IA to Regulation (EU) 2015/104 is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation.

7. (7)

   Annex IB to Regulation (EU) 2015/104 is amended in accordance with Annex IV to this Regulation.

8. (8)

   Annex IJ to Regulation (EU) 2015/104 is replaced by Annex V to this Regulation.

9. (9)

   Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2015/104 is replaced by Annex VI to this Regulation.

10. (10)

    Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2015/104 is replaced by Annex VII to this Regulation.

11. (11)

    Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) 2015/104 is amended in accordance with Annex VIII to this Regulation.