This Regulation establishes a multiannual plan for demersal stocks, including deep-sea stocks, in the Western Waters, and, where those stocks extend beyond the Western Waters, in their adjacent waters, and for the fisheries exploiting those stocks. The plan shall contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the common fisheries policy, in particular by applying the precautionary approach to fisheries management, and shall aim to ensure that exploitation of living marine biological resources restores and maintains populations of harvested species above levels which can produce MSY.
This Regulation also specifies details for the implementation of the landing obligation in European Union waters of the Western Waters for all stocks of species to which the landing obligation applies under article 15 of Regulation (EU) No. 1380/2013.