Council Regulation (EU) 2015/523 of 25 March 2015 amending Regulations (EU) No 43/2014 and (EU) 2015/104 as regards certain fishing opportunities

1 This Regulation shall apply to the following vessels: (a) Union vessels; (b) third-country vessels in Union waters.

2 For the purpose of Article 11a, this Regulation shall also apply to recreational fisheries.’

1 Catches of species which are subject to catch limits and which have been caught in fisheries specified in point (a) of Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 are subject to the landing obligation, as established in Article 15 of that Regulation (“the landing obligation”).

2 Fish subject to catch limits caught in fisheries not subject to the landing obligation shall be retained on board or landed only if: (a) the catches have been taken by vessels flying the flag of a Member State having a quota and that quota is not exhausted; or (b) the catches consist of a share in a Union quota which has not been allocated by quota among Member States, and that Union quota has not been exhausted.

3 The stocks of non-target species within safe biological limits referred to in Article 15(8) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 are identified in Annex I to this Regulation for the purposes of the derogation from the obligation to count catches against the relevant quotas provided for in that Article.’

In recreational fisheries in ICES divisions IVb, IVc, VIIa, VIId, VIIe, VIIf, VIIg, VIIh, VIIj and VIIk not more than three specimens of sea bass may be retained per person per day.’

Annex IA to Regulation (EU) No 43/2014 is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force the day after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. Article 1(3), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), and (11) shall apply from 1 January 2015. Article 2 shall apply from 1 January 2014.