Article 9General principles
1.Member States shall carry out inspections in their designated ports of at least 5 % of landing and transhipment operations by third country fishing vessels each year, in accordance with the benchmarks determined by the procedure referred to in Article 54(2) on the basis of risk management, without prejudice to the higher thresholds adopted by regional fisheries management organisations.
2.The following fishing vessels shall be inspected in all cases:
(a)fishing vessels sighted in accordance with Article 48;
(b)fishing vessels reported in the framework of a notification made under the Community alert system in accordance with Chapter IV;
(c)fishing vessels identified by the Commission as presumed to have engaged in IUU fishing in accordance with Article 25;
(d)fishing vessels appearing in a IUU vessel list adopted by a regional fisheries management organisation notified to Member States in accordance with Article 30.