S.I. No. 51/2010 - Sea-Fisheries (Recording of Catches) Regulations 2010.


S.I. No. 51 of 2010

SEA-FISHERIES (TECHNICAL MEASURES) REGULATIONS 2010

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 19th February, 2010.

I, TONY KILLEEN, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 and 14 of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 (No. 8 of 2006) and the Sea-Fisheries, Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2007 ( S.I. No. 707 of 2007 ) and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2009 ( S.I. No. 189 of 2009 ) (as adapted by the Agriculture and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2007 ( S.I. No. 705 of 2007 )), for the purpose of giving full effect to those provisions of Annex III to Council Regulation (EC) No. 43/2009 of 16 January 2009 1 mentioned in Council Regulation (EC) No. 1288/2009 of 27 November 2009 2 as amended by the second mentioned Regulation of the Council, hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sea-Fisheries (Recording of Catches) Regulations 2010.

2. (1) In these Regulations “Technical measures Regulation” means Annex III to Council Regulation (EC) No. 43/2009 of 16 January 2009 mentioned in Council Regulation (EC) No. 1288/2009 of 27 November 2009 as amended by the second mentioned Regulation of the Council.

(2) A word or expression that is used in the Technical measures Regulation and that is also used in these Regulations has, in these Regulations, the same meaning as it has in the Technical measures Regulation.

(3) These Regulations do not bind the State.

3. A person shall not contravene the Technical measures Regulation in relation to—

(i) a sea-fishing boat within the exclusive fishery limits of the State,

(ii) an Irish sea-fishing boat wherever it may be, or

(iii) a person engaged in buying, handling, weighing, transhipping, transporting, landing, processing, storing, documenting or selling fish within the State or the exclusive fishery limits of the State.

4. The Sea-Fisheries (Control of Catches) Regulations ( S.I. No. 31 of 2009 ) are revoked.

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GIVEN under my Hand,

1 February 2010.

TONY KILLEEN,

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of these Regulations is to extend for eighteen months existing technical measures in respect of the Cod Effort Management.

1 O.J. No. L 22 of 26.1.2009, p.1.

2 O.J. No. L 347 of 24.12.2009, p.6.