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  "title": "The Third Country Fishing (Enforcement) Order 1998",
  "short_title": "Third Country Fishing (Enforcement) 1998",
  "long_title": "This Order, which replaces and revokes the Third Country Fishing (Enforcement) Order 1997 and the Third Country Fishing (Enforcement) (Amendment) Order 1997, provides for the enforcement of certain of the enforceable Community restrictions and other obligations relating to sea fishing set out in Council Regulation (EC) No. 46/98 (OJ No. L12, 19.1.98, p.50) and Council Regulation (EC) No. 48/98 (OJ No. L12, 19.1.98, p.62) (“the Council Regulations”). The Community Regulations respectively authorise fishing by vessels of Norway and the Faroe Islands for specified descriptions of fish in certain specified areas within member States' fishery limits in 1998 and contain requirements concerning fishing quotas and authorised zones, methods of fishing, the holding of licences and observance of licence conditions, the keeping of log books, the making of radio reports and similar matters.",
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