Article 12 Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents

(1)

Any—

(a)

logbook kept under Articles 6, 17.2 or 28c;

(b)

declaration submitted under Articles 8.1, 11, 12, 17.2 or 28f;

(c)

effort report completed under Articles 19b and 19c;

(d)

document drawn up under Articles 9 or 13;

(e)

document containing required information received by a fisheries monitoring centre established under Article 3.7,

of Regulation 2847/93 shall, in any proceedings in England or Northern Ireland for a relevant offence, be evidence of the matters stated therein.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1), “required information” shall mean data relating to—

(a)

a fishing boat’s identification;

(b)

the most recent geographical position of the fishing boat expressed in degrees and minutes of longitude and latitude; and

(c)

the date and time of the fixing of that position,

as communicated via a satellite-based vessel monitoring system established under Article 3.1 of Regulation 2847/93.