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Specific data collection and reporting requirements referred to in Article 15(2) 1. Member States shall ensure that data collected for an area that comprises both Union waters and international waters are further disaggregated so that they refer to Union waters or international waters separately.

2. Where the activity in the deep-sea métier overlaps with activity in another métier in the same area, the data collection concerning the former shall be carried out separately from the data collection concerning the latter.

3. Discards shall be sampled in all deep-sea métiers. The sampling strategy for landings and discards shall cover all the species listed in Annex I, as well as species belonging to the seabed ecosystem such as deep-water corals, sponges or other organisms belonging to the same ecosystem.

4. An observer deployed on board shall be requested to identify and document the weight of any stony coral, soft coral, sponges or other organisms belonging to the same ecosystem taken on board by the vessel's gear.

5. Where the applicable multiannual data collection plan requires the collection of fishing effort data in terms of hours fished by trawls and soak time for passive gear, Member States shall collect and be ready to present, together with such fishing effort data, the following additional data:

(a) geographical location of the fishing activities on a haul-by-haul basis, from VMS data transmitted by the vessel to the fisheries monitoring centre;

(b) the fishing depths at which the gears are deployed in the event that the vessel is subject to reporting by electronic logbook. The master of the vessel shall notify fishing depth following the standardised reporting format.