# Council Regulation (EU) 2020/123 of 27 January 2020 fixing for 2020 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters, Article 27: Drifting FADs and supply vessels

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

1. Drifting FADs shall be equipped with instrumented buoys. The use of any other buoys, such as radio buoys is prohibited.
2. A purse seiner shall not follow more than 300 operational buoys at any one time.
3. The maximum number of instrumented buoys that may be acquired annually for each purse seine vessel is 500. No purse seine vessel shall have more than 500 instrumented buoys (buoy in stock and operational buoy) at any time.
4. The maximum number of supply vessels shall be two supply vessels in support of not less than five purse seiners .... This provision shall not apply where only one supply vessel is used.
5. A single purse seiner shall not be supported by more than one single supply vessel ... at any time.
6. A fisheries administration must not register new or additional supply vessels in the IOTC record of authorised vessels.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/123/article/27 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-123/article-27
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