Article 1
Regulation (EU) No 53/2010 is amended as follows:
- 1.
Article 1(2) is deleted;
- 2.
the following Article is inserted:
Article 30aClosed 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.
- (a)
- 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
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