Article 1
1. The fishing opportunities established under the Protocol agreed between the European Union and the Union of the Comoros setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for by the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the two parties currently in force (the ‘Protocol’) shall be allocated among the Member States as follows: (a) 42 tuna seiners: — Spain: 21 vessels — France: 21 vessels (b) 20 surface longliners: — Spain: 8 vessels — France: 9 vessels — Portugal: 3 vessels 2. Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008 shall apply without prejudice to the Protocol or the Fisheries Partnership Agreement. 3. The time limit within which the Member States are to confirm that they are not fully exhausting the fishing opportunities granted to them under the Fisheries Partnership Agreement, as provided by Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008, shall be set at ten working days from the date on which the Commission informs them that their fishing opportunities have not been fully exhausted.