Article 7
1. The Member States shall ensure that on the number of occasions indicated in Annex III, the landings of vessels which have operated with towed nets of mesh size range 70 mm to 99 mm in the areas defined in Article 6, paragraph 1 with no observer on board shall be sampled immediately after landing. To this end, each Member State shall establish a sampling plan, indicating, inter alia, the distribution of samples from each geographical area, and transmit it to the Commission for approval. 2. The sampling shall be designed to provide estimates of: (a) the total quantity of hake, of Norway lobster and of all other marine organisms landed; (b) the length to the nearest centimetre below the absolute length of the hake landed.