12.—(1) Any–
(a)logbook kept under Articles 6, 17.2 or 28c;
(b)declaration submitted under Articles 8.1, 11, 12, 17.2 or 28f;
(c)effort report completed under Articles 19b and 19c;
(d)document drawn up under Articles 9 or 13;
(e)document containing required information received by a fisheries monitoring centre established under Article 3.7,
of the Council Regulation shall, in any proceedings for a relevant offence, be received in evidence without being produced or sworn to by any witness and shall be sufficient evidence of the matters stated therein.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), “required information” shall mean data relating to–
(a)a fishing boat’s identification;
(b)the most recent geographical position of the fishing boat expressed in degrees and minutes of longitude and latitude; and
(c)the date and time of the fixing of that position,
as communicated via a satellite-based vessel monitoring system established under Article 3.1 of the Council Regulation.