# Regulation (EU) 2015/812 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 amending Council Regulations (EC) No 850/98, (EC) No 2187/2005, (EC) No 1967/2006, (EC) No 1098/2007, (EC) No 254/2002, (EC) No 2347/2002 and (EC) No 1224/2009, and Regulations (EU) No 1379/2013 and (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the landing obligation, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1434/98, Article 6: Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 2347/2002

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

Regulation (EC) No 2347/2002 is amended as follows:
(1) in Articles 1 and 5, the noun ‘Community’ or the corresponding adjective is replaced by ‘Union’, with any necessary grammatical changes being made;
(2) in Article 2, the following point is added:
‘(f)
“unintended catches” means incidental catches of marine organisms which, 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.’;
(3) in Article 3(1), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
‘Fishing vessels not holding a deep-sea fishing permit shall be prohibited from fishing for deep-sea species in excess of 100 kg in each sea trip. Deep-sea species caught in excess of 100 kg by such vessels shall not be retained on board, trans-shipped or landed.
The second subparagraph shall not apply to unintended catches of deep-sea species 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 quotas.’.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/812/article/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-812/article-6
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