# Regulation (EU) 2018/973 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2018 establishing a multiannual plan for demersal stocks in the North Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks, specifying details of the implementation of the landing obligation in the North Sea and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 676/2007 and (EC) No 1342/2008, Article 13: Principles and objectives of management of stocks of common interest to the United Kingdom and third countries

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

1. Where stocks of common interest are also exploited by third countries, the Secretary of State shall engage with those third countries with a view to ensuring that those stocks are managed in a sustainable manner that is consistent with the objectives of ... this Regulation. Where no formal agreement is reached, the Secretary of State shall make every effort to reach common arrangements for fishing of such stocks with a view to making sustainable management possible ....
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/973/article/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-973/article-13
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