
Article 1 
Article 13(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006 shall not apply in territorial waters of Spain adjacent to the coast of the Catalan region to fishing for sand eel (Gymnammodytes cicerelus and G. semisquamatus) and gobies (Aphia minuta and Crystalogobius linearis) by boat seines which are used by vessels:

((a)) registered in the maritime census managed by the Autonomous Community of Catalonia;
((b)) having a track record in the fishery of more than five years; and
((c)) holding a fishing authorization and operating under the management plan adopted by Spain in accordance with Article 19(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006.
Article 2 
Spain shall communicate to the Commission, within three years 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 day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply until 8 May 2017.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 6 May 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO