Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents

12.—(1) Any–

(a) logbook kept under Article 6 or 17.2;

(b) declaration submitted under Article 8.1, 12 or 17.2;

(c) effort report completed under Article 19b or 19c;

(d) document drawn up under Article 9 or 13; and

(e) document containing required information received by a fisheries monitoring centre established under Article 3.7,

of Council Regulation 2847/93 shall, in any proceedings in England or Northern Ireland for a relevant offence, be evidence of the matters stated therein.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) of this article, “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 Council Regulation 2847/93.