
Article 1 

1. For Union fishing vessels engaged in fisheries subject to the multiannual plan established by Regulation (EC) No 2166/2005, which land their catches in Spain and belong to the fleets listed in paragraph 2, the minimum notification period of four hours provided for in Article 17(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 shall be reduced to two hours and a half.
2. Paragraph 1 shall apply only to the following fishing vessels:
(a) bottom trawlers (TR), netters (GN) and bottom long liners (LL) engaged in fisheries on Southern hake and Norway lobster stocks subject to the multiannual plan established by Regulation (EC) No 2166/2005 in the Cantabrian Sea and North Western Iberian peninsula (ICES Divisions VIIIc and IXa);
(b) bottom trawlers (TR) engaged in fisheries on Southern hake and Norway lobster stocks subject to the multiannual plan established by Regulation (EC) No 2166/2005 in Portuguese waters (ICES Division IXa).
Article 2 
One year after the entry into force of this Regulation, Spain shall submit a report to the Commission concerning the impact of the reduced notification period on the control of landings of the vessels referred to in Article 1.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 21 November 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO