Council of the European Union and European Parliament 14 September 2016, Regulation (EU) 2016/1627 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2016 on a multiannual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 302/2009

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CHAPTER I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Subject matter and scope
Article 2. Objective
Article 3. Definitions
Article 4. Length of vessels
CHAPTER II. MANAGEMENT MEASURES
Article 5. Conditions associated with management measures
Article 6. Submission of annual fishing plans, fishing capacity management plans and farming management plans
Article 7. Annual fishing plans
Article 8. Allocation of fishing opportunities
Article 9. Fishing capacity management plans
Article 10. Farming management plans
CHAPTER III. TECHNICAL MEASURES
SECTION 1. Fishing seasons
Article 11. Longliners, purse seiners, pelagic trawlers, traps and sport and recreational fisheries
Article 12. Baitboats and trolling boats
SECTION 2. Minimum conservation reference size, incidental catch, by-catch
Article 13. The landing obligation
Article 14. Minimum conservation reference size
Article 15. Incidental catches
Article 16. By-catch
SECTION 3. Use of aerial means
Article 17. Use of aerial means
CHAPTER IV. SPORT AND RECREATIONAL FISHERIES
Article 18. Specific quota for sport and recreational fisheries
Article 19. Sport and recreational fisheries
CHAPTER V. CONTROL MEASURES
SECTION 1. Records of vessels and traps
Article 20. Records of vessels
Article 21. Relationship with Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009
Article 22. Fishing authorisations for vessels
Article 23. Records of traps authorised to fish for bluefin tuna
Article 24. Joint fishing operation
SECTION 2. Catches
Article 25. Recording requirements
Article 26. Catch reports sent by masters and trap operators
Article 27. Weekly and monthly catch reports sent by the Member States
Article 28. Information on quota exhaustion
Article 29. Yearly reporting of catches by the Member States
SECTION 3. Landings and transhipments
Article 30. Designated ports
Article 31. Landings
Article 32. Transhipment
SECTION 4. Transfer operations
Article 33. Transfer authorisation
Article 34. Refusal of transfer authorisation
Article 35. Monitoring by video camera
Article 36. Verification by ICCAT regional observers and launching and conduct of investigation
Article 37. Measures to estimate the number and weight of bluefin tuna to be caged
Article 38. Transfer declaration
Article 39. Implementing acts
SECTION 5. Caging operations
Article 40. Caging authorisation
Article 41. Refusal of caging authorisation
Article 42. Bluefin tuna catch documentation
Article 43. Inspections
Article 44. Monitoring by video camera
Article 45. Launching and conduct of investigations
Article 46. Measures and programmes to estimate the number and weight of bluefin tuna to be caged
Article 47. Caging report
Article 48. Implementing acts
SECTION 6. Monitoring and surveillance
Article 49. Vessel monitoring system
Article 50. National observer programme
Article 51. ICCAT regional observer programme
SECTION 7. Inspections and cross-checks
Article 52. ICCAT Scheme of Joint International Inspection
Article 53. Transmission of inspection plans
Article 54. Inspections in case of infringements
Article 55. Cross-check
SECTION 8. Marketing
Article 56. Marketing measures
CHAPTER VI. FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 57. Evaluation
Article 58. Financing
Article 59. Implementation
Article 60. Repeal
Article 61. Entry into force
ANNEX I. Specific conditions applicable to the fisheries referred to in Article 14(2)

16.9.2016

Official Journal of the European Union

L 252/1

REGULATION (EU) 2016/1627 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 14 September 2016

on a multiannual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 302/2009

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to

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