Council Regulation (EC) No 41/2007Dangos y teitl llawn

[F1 SECTION 1 U.K. Management measures

Article 80a U.K. Scope

This Chapter lays down the general rules for the application by the Community of special measures for Bluefin Tuna ( thunnus thynnus ) recommended by the International Commission for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). It shall apply to bluefin tuna in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

Article 80b U.K. Definitions

For the purpose of this Chapter, the following definitions shall apply:

(a)

‘ CPCs ’ means Contracting Parties to the International Convention for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tuna and cooperating non-contracting parties, entities or fishing entities;

(b)

‘ Fishing vessel ’ means any vessel used or intended for use for the purposes of the commercial exploitation of tuna resources, included fish processing vessels and vessels engaged in transhipment;

(c)

‘ Joint fishing operation ’ means any operations between two or more vessels flying the flag of different CPCs or of different Member States where the catch of one vessel is attributed in total or in part to one or more other vessels;

(d)

‘ Transfer activities ’ means any transfer of bluefin tuna

(i)

from the fishing vessel to the end fattening bluefin tuna farm, including for the fish dead or escaped during the transport;

(ii)

from a bluefin tuna farm or a tuna trap to a processing vessel, transport vessel or to land;

(e)

‘ Tuna trap ’ means fixed gear anchored to the bottom usually containing a guide net that leads fish into an enclosure;

(f)

‘ Caging ’ means that bluefin tuna is not taken on board and includes both, fattening and farming;

(g)

‘ Fattening ’ means caging of bluefin tuna for a short period (usually two to six months) aiming mostly at increasing the fat content of the fish;

(h)

‘ Farming ’ means caging of bluefin tuna for a period longer than one year, aiming to increase the total biomass;

(i)

‘ Transhipment ’ means the unloading of all or any of the bluefin tuna on board a fishing vessel to another fishing vessel at port;

(j)

‘ Processing vessel ’ means a vessel on board of which fisheries products are subject to one or more of the following operations, prior to their packaging: filleting or slicing, freezing and/or transformation;

(k)

‘ Sport fishery ’ means a non-commercial fishery whose participants adhere to a national sport organisation or are issued with a national sport licence;

(l)

‘ Recreational fishery ’ means a non-commercial fishery whose participants do not adhere to a national sport organisation or are not issued with a national sport licence;

(m)

‘ Task II ’ means Task II as defined by the International Commission for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in the ‘ Field manual for statistics and sampling Atlantic tunas and tuna-like fish ’ (Third edition, ICCAT, 1990).

Article 80c U.K. Quota

1. Each Member State may allocate its bluefin tuna quota to its fishing vessels and traps authorised to fish actively for bluefin tuna.

2. Private trade arrangements between nationals of a Member State and a CPC in order to use a fishing vessel flying the flag of that Member State for fishing in the framework of a tuna quota of a CPC, shall be concluded only under authorisation by the Member State concerned which shall inform the Commission.

Article 80d U.K. Joint fishing operations

1. Any joint fishing operations for bluefin tuna involving vessels flying the flag of one or more Member State(s) shall only be authorised with the consent of the flag Member State or flag Member States concerned

2. At the moment of the application for the authorisation, each Member State shall take the necessary measures to obtain from its fishing vessel participating in the joint fishing operation detailed information concerning the duration of the joint operation, the identity of the operators involved and the allocation key between the vessels for the catches involved.

3. Each Member State shall transmit the information referred to in paragraph 2 to the Commission. The Commission shall promptly forward that information to the ICCAT Secretariat.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Inserted by Council Regulation (EC) No 643/2007 of 11 June 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 41/2007 as concerns the recovery plan for bluefin tuna recommended by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.