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2012/510/EU: Council Decision of 10 July 2012 establishing the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union with regard to the amendments to Annexes II and III to the Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean, adopted by the seventeenth meeting of the Contracting Parties (Paris, France, 8 - 10 February 2012 )

2012/510/EU: Council Decision of 10 July 2012 establishing the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union with regard to the amendments to Annexes II and III to the Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean, adopted by the seventeenth meeting of the Contracting Parties (Paris, France, 8 - 10 February 2012 )

Decision · 3 articles

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Article 1

The Union shall approve the amendments to add the following species to Annex II to the Protocol and to delete them from Annex III: (a) Galeorhinus galeus (Linnaeus, 1758); (b) Isurus oxyrinchus (Rafinesque, 1810); (c) Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre, 1788); (d) Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838); (e) Leucoraja melitensis (Clark, 1926); (f) Rhinobatos cemiculus (Saint-Hilaire, 1817); (g) Rhinobatos rhinobatos (Linnaeus, 1758); (h) Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834); (i) Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837); (j) Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758).

Article 2

The Commission is hereby authorised to notify the Depositary of the Protocol, in writing, that the Union approves the amendments specified in Article 1, in accordance with Article 23(2)(iv) of the Barcelona Convention. It shall do so before the expiry of the 180-day period from the adoption of the amendments by the seventeenth meeting of the Contracting Parties.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

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