Council Regulation (EU) No 219/2010Show full title

Article 1 U.K.

Regulation (EU) No 53/2010 is amended as follows:

1.

Article 1(2) is deleted;

2.

the following Article is inserted:

‘Article 30a Closed areas for purse-seine fisheries

The fishing by purse-seine vessels for bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna shall be prohibited in the following high seas areas:

(a)

the international waters enclosed by the boundaries of the exclusive economic zones of Indonesia, Palau, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea;

(b)

the international waters enclosed by the boundaries of the exclusive economic zones of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.’;

3.

Annex IA is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;

4.

Annex IB is replaced by the text in Annex II to this Regulation;

5.

Annex IH is replaced by the text in Annex III to this Regulation;

6.

Annex III is replaced by the text in Annex IV to this Regulation.

Article 2 U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2010.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 15 March 2010.

For the Council

The President

E. Espinosa