Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2062 of 23 August 2021 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2014 specifying details of implementation of the landing obligation for certain fisheries in the North Sea for the period 2021-2023

• Published date: 26 November 2021
• Subject Matter: Fisheries policy
• Official Gazette Publication: Official Journal of the European Union, L 421, 26 November 2021

26.11.2021 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 421/4

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COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2021/2062

of 23 August 2021

amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2014 specifying details of implementation of the landing obligation for certain fisheries in the North Sea for the period 2021-2023

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2018/973 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2018 establishing a multiannual plan for demersal stocks in the North Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks, specifying details of the implementation of the landing obligation in the North Sea and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 676/2007 and (EC) No 1342/2008 (1), and in particular Article 11 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2014 (2) provides details on how to implement the landing obligation for certain fisheries in the North Sea for the period 2021-2023, following a joint recommendation submitted by Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden (‘Scheveningen Group’).

(2) Under Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2014, certain exemptions to the landing obligation are provisionally applicable until 31 December 2021. In these cases, Member States having a direct management interest should submit, as soon as possible and not later than 1 May 2021, additional scientific evidence supporting the exemption. The Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (‘STECF’) should assess the submitted evidence by 31 July 2021.

(3) The Scheveningen Group, after consulting the North Sea Advisory Council and the Pelagic Advisory Council, submitted a joint recommendation to the Commission on 30 April 2021, requesting the continuation of certain exemptions to the landing obligation beyond 2021 and providing additional scientific information. The Scheveningen Group submitted a revised version of the joint recommendation on 26 July 2021.

(4) The STECF (3) reviewed the joint recommendation in May 2021. The Commission presented the draft delegated act to an expert group consisting of representatives of the Member States on 16 July 2021 in a meeting attended by the European Parliament as an observer.

(5) Article 6(1), point (c)(ii), of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2014 includes a survivability exemption for

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