By 1 March 2019, Member States having a direct management interest shall provide the Commission with information allowing to assess the representativeness and quality of the discard survival estimate of plaice caught with trap-nets, creels/pots, fyke-nets and pound nets.

The Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) shall assess the information referred to in paragraph 1 by 1 August 2019 at the latest.