Article 1
Implementing Decision 2012/807/EU is amended as follows:
- (1)
The Title is replaced by the following:
‘Commission Implementing Decision 2012/807/EU of 19 December 2012 establishing a specific control and inspection programme for pelagic fisheries in Western Waters of the North East Atlantic and in the Northern North Sea’
- (2)
Article 1 is replaced by the following:
‘Article 1Subject matter
This Decision establishes a specific control and inspection programme applicable to the stocks of mackerel, herring, horse mackerel, blue whiting, boarfish, anchovy, argentine, sardine and sprat in EU waters of ICES sub-areas V, VI, VII, VIII and IX and in EU waters of CECAF 34.1.11 (hereafter referred to as “Western Waters”), as well as to mackerel and herring in EU waters of ICES division IVa (hereafter referred to as “the Northern North Sea”).’
- (3)
In Article 2, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:
‘2.
The specific control and inspection programme shall apply until 31 December 2018.’
- (4)
In Article 3(2) point (b) is replaced by the following:
‘(b)
reporting obligations applicable to fishing activities in Western Waters and in the Northern North Sea, in particular the reliability of the information recorded and reported;’
- (5)
In Article 3(2), point (c) is replaced by the following:
- (6)
In Article 12, the following paragraph is added:
‘3.
As from 2016 onwards, Member States shall communicate the information referred to in paragraph 1 on an annual basis, by the 31 January after each calendar year.’
- (7)
Annex II is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.