# The Sea Fishing (EU Recording and Reporting Requirements) (Scotland) Order 2010, Article 3: Competent authority and methods of reporting

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(1) The Scottish Ministers are the competent authority to which information must be reported for the purpose of any recording and reporting requirement or third 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 recording and reporting requirement or third 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 ;
(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 ; 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 Articles 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/334/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-eu-recording-and-reporting-requirements-scotland-order-2010/article-3
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