The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota and Third Country Fishing Measures) (Amendment) Order 2000
Title, commencement and interpretation1.
This Order may be cited as the Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota and Third Country Fishing Measures) (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st September 2000.
Amendment of the principal Order2.
SCHEDULE
“SCHEDULE 1SPECIFIED COMMUNITY PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COMMUNITY VESSELS AND MAXIMUM FINES ON SUMMARY CONVICTION
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Provision of the Council Regulation
Subject matter
Maximum fine on summary conviction
1.
Article 6.1, in so far as that paragraph relates to retaining on board or landing
Prohibitions on retaining on board or landing catches from stocks for which total allowable catches or quotas are fixed and have been exhausted
£50,000
2.
Article 6.1, in so far as that paragraph relates to catch composition or sorting
Prohibitions in certain circumstances on retaining on board or landing catches having a certain composition or which have been sorted
The statutory maximum
3.
Article 6.2
Prohibition on landing catches which are unsorted and contain herring when the catch limitations set out in Annex II to the Council Regulation have been exhausted
£50,000
4.
Article 7
Prohibition on fishing by Community vessels in certain Norwegian and Icelandic waters
£50,000
5.
Article 8 and Annex IV paragraphs 2 and 6
Prohibition on landing catches containing unsorted herring in harbours where adequate sampling systems are not in place3; prohibition on offering for sale for human consumption herring caught in the areas specified in Annex IV paragraph 6 by vessels carrying towed nets of a minimum mesh size less than 32mm and landedThe statutory maximum”
This Order, which is made under section 30(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981, amends the Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quotas and Third Country Fishing Measures) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/827) (“the principal Order”). The principal Order extends to England and Wales and to Northern Ireland but does not extend to Scotland.
The effect of the present Order is to add to Schedule 1 to the principal Order a reference to Article 7 of Council Regulation 2742/1999 (O.J. No. L341, 31.12.99, p.1), which prohibits fishing by European Community vessels in certain Norwegian and Icelandic waters and to remedy a typographical error in paragraph 5 of that Schedule. For convenience, the whole of Schedule 1 is restated in the present Order.