PART 2Amendments to EU Exit domestic legislation

CHAPTER 1Amendments to legislation relating to alien and locally absent species in aquaculture

Amendment of the Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 20194

1

Regulation 42 of the Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 20196 is amended as follows.

2

Before paragraph (2), insert—

1A

In Article 23, for the second and third paragraphs substitute—

To facilitate the sharing of information contained in its register, the appropriate authority must use the information system set out in Commission Regulation 535/20087.

The appropriate authority may, by regulations, amend provisions of Commission Regulation 535/2008 relating to the establishment and development of an information system.

3

In paragraph (2)(a), in inserted paragraph 1A, after point (b), insert——

c

amend Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) 535/2008 to adapt the specifications for the conditions necessary for adding species to Annex 4, as provided for in paragraph 3.

4

In paragraph (4)—

a

in inserted Article 24d—

i

in paragraph 1, for “Article 24(1)” substitute “Articles 23 and 24(1)”;

ii

omit paragraphs 4 and 8;

b

in inserted Article 24e—

i

in paragraph 2, for “the United Kingdom” substitute “Great Britain”;

ii

omit paragraph 3(c);

iii

in paragraph 4—

aa

for “any” substitute “either”;

bb

for “to (c)” substitute “or (b)”.