
Article 1 
Article 13(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006 shall not apply in territorial waters of Italy adjacent to the coast of Liguria and Tuscany, to fishing for transparent goby (Aphia minuta) with boat seines used by vessels:

((a)) registered in the maritime Directorates (Direzione Marittima) of Genova and Livorno respectively;
((b)) having a track record in the fishery of more than five years and not involving any future increase in the fishing effort deployed; and
((c)) having a fishing authorisation and operating under the management plan adopted by Italy in accordance with Article 19(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006.
Article 2 
Italy shall communicate to the Commission, within one year following the entry into force of this Regulation, a report drawn up in accordance with the monitoring plan established in the management plan referred to in Article 1(c).
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply until 31 March 2021.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 30 October 2018.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER