Request for exclusion
Article 3
1. For the purpose of excluding a group of vessels from the fishing effort regime pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2008, Member States shall send the Commission a request for exclusion supported by information demonstrating that the group of vessels concerned will comply with the condition laid down in Article 11(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2008 and justifying how the condition provided for in Article 11(2)(c) of that Regulation is satisfied. 2. The request shall be sent in electronic form and in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex I. Complete requests received at least 1 month before a STECF plenary meeting will be sent to STECF for assessment in that meeting. Requests received thereafter can be sent to STEFC for assessment at the subsequent meeting. 3. Where a group of vessels is excluded from the fishing effort regime pursuant to Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2008, the fishing effort that can be associated with the activity or technical characteristics of this group, and which contributed to establishment of the baseline effort, shall no longer be taken into account for the purpose of establishing the maximum allowable fishing effort. 4. Where a group of vessels is re-included in the effort regime on the basis of Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1342/2008, the fishing effort allocated to the effort group concerned will be adjusted taking into account the annual effort adjustments that have taken place since the establishment of the baseline effort for that effort group. 5. Where a vessel no longer complies with the requirements specified in the decision on exclusion, in particular concerning activities or technical characteristics of the group of vessels, the Member State shall count the effort deployed by that vessel during the fishing season against the maximum allowable fishing effort.