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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, further transposed into Union Law by way of Regulation (EU) No 500/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) and last amended by ICCAT Recommendation 12-03 of 10 December 2012 .]
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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:
all fishing activities, including by-catches, by fishing vessels and traps, including joint fishing operations;
[F1all catches, landings, transfers, transhipments and caging operations, including implemented pilot studies on how better estimate both the number and weight of bluefin tuna at the point of capture and caging, including through the use of stereoscopical systems and the programme using stereoscopical cameras systems or alternative techniques that provide the equivalent precision, which shall cover 100 % of all caging operations in order to refine the number and weight of the fish in each caging operation;]
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;
sport and recreational fisheries.
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