
Article 1 
The first subparagraph of Article 13(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006 shall not apply within the Spanish territorial waters of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia to fishing for transparent goby (Aphia minuta) by boat seines used by vessels fulfilling the following requirements:

((a)) being registered in the maritime census managed by the Directorate-General for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia;
((b)) having a track record in the fishery of more than five years and not involving any future increase in fishing effort provided;
((c)) holding a fishing authorisation 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 a report drawn up in accordance with the monitoring plan established in the management plan referred to in Article 1(c), for the first time by 1 October 2020 and, thereafter, every 12 months.
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 from 1 January 2020 until 1 March 2023.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 1 September 2020.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN