The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/218 on the Union fishing fleet register

33.—(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/218 on the Union fishing fleet register is amended as follows.

(2) For Article 1 substitute—

“Article 1 Subject matter

This Regulation determines the minimum information on vessel characteristics and activity which must appear in the United Kingdom fishing fleet register.”.

(3) In Article 2—

(a) omit points (b), (c), (f), (g), (h) and (i);

(b) for point (l) substitute—

“(l) ‘United Kingdom fleet register (UKFR) number’ means the unique identification number of the vessel in the United Kingdom fleet;”;

(c) omit point (n); and

(d) in point (o)—

(i) for “Union” in both places, substitute “United Kingdom”, and

(ii) for “Commission” substitute “Secretary of State”.

(4) In Article 3 for “Union” substitute “United Kingdom”.

(5) In Article 4—

(a) in the heading for “Union” substitute “United Kingdom”;

(b) for “Union” substitute “United Kingdom”; and

(c) for “the rules of the common fisheries policy” substitute “Fisheries Rules”.

(6) For Article 5 substitute—

“Article 5 Data collection for the United Kingdom fishing fleet register

A fisheries administration must, jointly with the other fisheries administrations, collect and validate without delay the data referred to in Annex I to enable the Secretary of State to record the same data in the United Kingdom fishing fleet register.”.

(7) Omit Articles 6 and 7.

(8) For Article 8 substitute—

“Article 8 United Kingdom fleet register number

1.   The Secretary of State must assign a United Kingdom fleet register (UKFR) number to any fishing vessel which enters in the United Kingdom fleet for the first time.

2.   The UKFR number must not be altered during the period in which the fishing vessel belongs to the United Kingdom fleet.

3.   The UKFR number must not be reassigned to another vessel. If a fishing vessel is exported outside the United Kingdom and re-imported back into the United Kingdom, the fishing vessel must be reassigned the same UKFR number.”.

(9) Omit Article 9.

(10) For Article 10 substitute—

“Article 10 Access to vessel data

1.   The Secretary of State must publish, in such manner as the Secretary of State sees fit, a limited version of the United Kingdom fishing fleet register which does not contain personal data.

2.   The limited version of the register published under paragraph 1 must be updated at least once a month to update any event of which the Secretary of State is aware.”.

(11) In Article 11 for “Directive 95/46/EC and Regulation (EC) No 45/2001” substitute “data protection legislation”.

(12) Omit Article 13.

(13) In the Table in Annex 1—

(a) omit the row for “Country of registration”;

(b) in the row for “CFR”—

(i) in the first column for “CFR” substitute “UKFR”, and

(ii) for the words in the second column substitute “Unique identification number of a fishing vessel in the United Kingdom fishing fleet register”;

(c) in the row for “Registration number”, in the second column, omit “given by the Member State”;

(d) in the row for “Name of vessel”, for the words in the second column, substitute “The registered name of the fishing vessel”;

(e) for “Regulation (EEC) No. 2930/86” in each place it occurs in the Table, substitute “Regulation (EU) 2017/1130”;

(f) in the row for “Other tonnage”, in the second column, omit “or in accordance with a definition to be laid down by the Member State”; and

(g) in table note (1) for “the date of the census in the Member State (Annex II)” substitute “1.1.1989”.

(14) Omit Annex 2.