This Decision establishes a specific control and inspection programme in order to ensure the harmonised implementation of the multiannual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean adopted by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in 2006 as transposed by Regulation (EC) No 302/2009 as last amended by ICCAT Recommendation 10-04 of 27 November 2010.

The specific control and inspection programme shall apply until 15 March 2014 in the ICCAT Convention area.

The specific control and inspection programme shall cover the following activities:

1. 1.

   all fishing activities, including by-catches, by fishing vessels and traps, including joint fishing operations;

2. 2.

   all catches, landings, transfers, transhipments and caging operations;

3. 3.

   all related activities of farms and operators engaged in caging, fattening, farming, harvesting or processing of bluefin tuna and/or in trade of bluefin tuna products, including domestic trade, importation, exportation and re-exportation, transport and storage;

4. 4.

   sport and recreational fisheries.