Article 3 Competent authority and methods of reporting

Scotland

(1)

The Scottish Ministers are the competent authority to which information must be reported for the purpose of any F1recording and reporting requirement or F2third country recording and reporting requirement where the information relates to—

(a)

fishing activity or fishing operations undertaken by—

(i)

Scottish fishing boats wherever they may be; and

(ii)

any other fishing boat within the Scottish zone; and

(b)

fishery products that are landed, stored, transported or first sold in Scotland.

(2)

Where an F3recording and reporting requirement or F4third country recording and reporting requirement requires the information specified in paragraph (1) to be—

(a)

submitted in written form, or sent other than by electronic means, that information must be submitted or sent to the Scottish Ministers by such methods as they may from time to time require M1;

(b)

sent by electronic means, that information must be transmitted to the Scottish Ministers—

(i)

in relation to Scottish fishing boats, and for the purposes of Articles 15, 17, 22 and 24 of the Control Regulation, by an electronic logbook software system of a type approved by the Scottish Ministers M2; and

(ii)

in relation to registered buyers, registered auctions and other authorised bodies or persons responsible for the first sale of fishery products in Scotland, and for the purposes of F5Articles 63 and 67 of the Control Regulation, by an electronic reporting system of a type specified by the Scottish Ministers on the form provided by them for the purposes of article 4.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in art. 3(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Fisheries (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/24), regs. 1(2)(b), 8(3)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in art. 3(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Fisheries (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/24), regs. 1(2)(b), 8(3)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Word in art. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Fisheries (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/24), regs. 1(2)(b), 8(3)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4: Words in art. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Fisheries (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/24), regs. 1(2)(b), 8(3)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5: Words in art. 3(2)(b)(ii) substituted (7.3.2011) by The Sea Fishing (EU Recording and Reporting Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/59), arts. 1, 3

Marginal citations

M1

Details of the methods for submitting information to the Scottish Ministers in written form, and for sending information to the Scottish Ministers other than by electronic means, will be available from 31st October 2010 on the Scottish Government's (Marine and Fisheries) website which can be accessed via the following web-link:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/Sea-Fisheries/Regulation.

M2

Details of approved electronic logbook software systems (ELSS) are published on the Scottish Government's (Marine and Fisheries) website and can be accessed via the following web-link:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/Sea-Fisheries/Regulation/approveduk.