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Council Regulation (EU) 2018/120 of 23 January 2018 fixing for 2018 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/127
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such vessels caught less than 300 kg live weight of sole during the 2017 management period;
such vessels do not tranship any fish at sea to another vessel;
by 31 July 2018 and 31 January 2019 each Member State concerned makes a report to the Commission on those vessels' catch records for sole in the three previous years as well as on catches of sole in 2018.
Where any of those conditions is not met, the vessels concerned shall cease to be exempt from the application of this Annex, with immediate effect.
For the purposes of this Annex, the following definitions apply:
‘gear grouping’ means the grouping consisting of the following two gear categories:
beam trawls of mesh size equal to or greater than 80 mm, and
static nets, including gillnets, trammel nets and tangle-nets, with mesh size equal to or less than 220 mm;
‘regulated gear’ means any of the two gear categories belonging to the gear grouping;
‘area’ means ICES division 7e;
‘current management period’ means the period from 1 February 2018 to 31 January 2019.
Without prejudice to Article 29 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, each Member State shall ensure that, when carrying on board any regulated gear, Union fishing vessels flying its flag and registered in the Union shall be present within the area for no more than the number of days set out in Chapter III of this Annex.
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