Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Control Measures) (Wales) Order 2000 (S.I. No. 1075 (W.69) of 2000).

Council Regulation (EC) No. 2847/93 established a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy. To provide for the enforcement of the Council Regulation, this Order largely re-enacts the provisions of the 1994 Order as well as introducing some new provisions. The Order creates offences in respect of breaches of the provisions referred to in column of the Schedule to this Order and in article 3 of this Order. The amendments to the Control Regulation made by Council Regulation (EC) No. 2846/98 include in particular: 1) the requirement to keep a logbook in respect of amounts of fish of over 50 kg; 2) the requirement for vessels wishing to land catches into a Member State other than the flag Member State to comply with the requirements of a designated ports scheme or give 4 hours advance notification of their intention to land to the competent authorities of the Member State of landing; 3) new rules in respect of the submission of sales notes, transport declarations and take over declarations; and 4) the extension of a number of requirements to third country fishing vessels. Penalties for contravention of the Community provisions are to be found in articles 4 of, and the Schedule to, the Order. For the purpose of enforcing the Community control measures specified in the Schedule, this Order confers on British sea-fishery officers, acting within Wales (which includes the territorial sea adjacent to Wales), the powers specified.