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Compliance with quotas and minimum size requirements
1. By 20 August of each year Member States shall submit to the Commission information on the catches of ICCAT species during the previous year subject to quotas and on the compliance with minimum sizes. 2. The Commission shall forward that information to the ICCAT Secretariat by 15 September of each year.
Catch sampling
1. Sampling of catches for the purposes of improving the knowledge on the biology of the relevant ICCAT species and of estimating the necessary parameters for their evaluation shall be carried out in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/1004 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 23 ) , Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1251 ( 24 ) and the ‘Field manual for statistics and sampling Atlantic tunas and tuna-like fishes’ published in 1990 by ICCAT. 2. The Commission may adopt implementing acts as regards detailed requirements for the catch sampling referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 75(2).
Catch and fishing effort notification
1. Unless otherwise established by the Commission to meet annual deadlines set by ICCAT, Member States shall transmit to the Commission, by 30 June of each year, the following data (Task I data): (a) information on the characteristics of their fleet for the previous year; (b) estimates of the annual nominal catch data (including by-catch and discards data) concerning ICCAT species for the previous year. 2. Unless otherwise established by the Commission to meet annual deadlines set by ICCAT, Member States shall transmit to the Commission, by 30 June of each year, the following data (Task II data) for the ICCAT species: (a) catch and fishing effort data for the previous year, giving a detailed spatio-temporal breakdown; those data shall include estimates of discards and releases with the indication of the status of the fish (dead or alive); (b) any data they have on catches in recreational fisheries for the previous year. 3. The Commission shall forward the information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 to the ICCAT Secretariat without delay. 4. The Commission may adopt implementing acts as regards detailed requirements for the Task I and II data referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article respectively. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 75(2).
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