Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council2 established as one of its objectives the gradual elimination of discards through the introduction of a landing obligation for catches of species subject to catch limits. Certain provisions of the Commission Regulation (EC) No 2056/20013 establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stocks of cod in the North Sea and to the west of Scotland oblige fisherman to discard fish. In order to remove incompatibilities between that Regulation and the landing obligation, and make the landing obligation operational, those provisions should be amended.

In particular, in order to ensure the implementation of the landing obligation, Regulation (EC) No 2056/2001 should be amended by requiring that all unintended catches of marine organisms of species subject to the landing obligation and caught in excess of the catch composition limits be landed and counted against quotas.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,