{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/1627",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2016/1627 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2016 on a multiannual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 302/2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Use of aerial means",
  "text": "(1.) The use of any aerial means, including aircraft, helicopters or any types of unmanned aerial vehicles for searching for bluefin tuna in waters of the United Kingdom zone in order to assist a fishing boat with the targeting of bluefin tuna is prohibited.\n(2.) The use of such aerial means in waters outside of the United Kingdom zone but within the ICCAT Convention area is prohibited where such use is intended to assist a UK fishing boat with the targeting of bluefin tuna.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 17 renumbered as Art. 17(1) (1.4.2024) by The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 6(14)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 17(1) substituted (1.4.2024) by The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 6(14)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 17(2) inserted (1.4.2024) by The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 6(14)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1627/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:35.338359+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}