{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Submission of annual fishing plans and fishing capacity management plans ...",
  "text": "1. By 15 February each year, the Secretary of State must transmit to the ICCAT Secretariat:\n(a) an annual fishing plan for ... bluefin tuna fishing by UK fishing boats in the ICCAT Convention area ...;\n(b) an annual fishing capacity management plan detailing the United Kingdom bluefin tuna fishing capacity and how this is commensurate with the United Kingdom’s ICCAT allocated bluefin tuna quota.\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(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(6)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(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(6)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1)(a) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(b)(iii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1)(a) 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(6)(b)(iii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1)(a) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(b)(iii)(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1)(b) 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(6)(b)(iv)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1)(b) 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(6)(b)(iv)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1)(b) 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(6)(b)(iv)(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1)(b) 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(6)(b)(iv)(dd)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Art. 6(2) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Art. 6(3) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Word in Art. 6 heading 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(6)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6 heading omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(a)(ii)"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}