
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 2056/2001 is amended as follows:

((1)) in Article 2, the following point 3 is added:
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3. “unintended catches” means incidental catches of marine organisms which, under Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, must be landed and counted against quotas either because they are below the minimum conservation reference size or because they exceed the quantities permitted under the catch composition and by-catch rules.
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((2)) the following Article 9a is inserted:
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Article 9a 
Where marine organisms of a species subject to the landing obligation are caught in excess of permitted percentages or quantities specified in Article 4(1) to (6), Article 5(2), Article 6(2), Article 7 and Article 8 of this Regulation, Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 shall apply. Those unintended catches shall be landed and counted against quotas. Such unintended catches shall not be deemed to represent a breach of the permitted percentages of the catch composition specified in those Articles.'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth 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 October 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER