Commission Decision (EU) 2024/3135 of 17 December 2024 approving on behalf of the European Union, an amendment to the Protocol implementing the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
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The amendment to the Protocol on the implementation of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, adopted by the Joint Committee by way of Exchange of Letters on 6 September and 30 September 2024 respectively, is hereby approved on behalf of the Union. The amendment to the Protocol is attached to this Decision.
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
ANNEX In Chapter V of Annex I to the Protocol implementing the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement with Mauritania, — the heading of point 3 is reworded as follows: ‘Derogations from the landing obligations, in the event of force majeure ’; — the following point 4 is added: ‘4. Derogations from landing or transhipment obligations in the event of a wait for landing or transhipment operations exceeding 24 hours from the date and time specified in the notification of the landing or transhipment request by the operator in accordance with point 1.6 or 2.5; 1. By way of derogation from points 1 and 2, the operators concerned may land or tranship their catches in the harbour roads off a Mauritanian port or in a port outside Mauritania in the event of technical or logistical difficulties ( *1 ) leading to a delay in landing operations in dock or transhipment in harbour roads of an EU vessel exceeding 24 hours from the date and time specified in the notification of the landing or transhipment request by the operator in accordance with point 1.6 or 2.5. Operators may, exceptionally, activate the following derogation procedure for this purpose: (a) the operator shall immediately inform its national authorities, the EU authorities (the EU Delegation in Mauritania and DG MARE of the European Commission) and the Mauritanian Coast Guard (MCG) of the delay as indicated above; (b) the EU authorities shall ask the Minister for Fisheries and the Maritime Economy to initiate the derogation procedure and shall send the list of EU vessels concerned to the MCG; (c) the Mauritanian authorities shall initiate the derogation procedure as soon as possible; (d) once the derogation procedure has been initiated, the operator may request authorisation from the MCG to tranship in the harbour roads off a Mauritanian port or to land catches in a port which will be identified by mutual agreement; (e) the MCG shall, as soon as possible, appoint officers to check the vessel or vessels concerned in the harbour roads off a Mauritanian port or embark inspectors to accompany the vessel to the port of landing; at the end of the landing operations, the inspectors shall be brought back to their original place of embarkation by the operator. (f) it is the responsibility of the operator, in agreement with the MCG, to organise and carry out the administrative procedures necessary for the officers’ travel; (g) it is the responsibility of the operator to provide adequate working conditions and to cover any costs of the officers’ travel. 2. This procedure shall apply without prejudice to the other exemptions provided for in points 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 2.4 and 3 of Chapter V of Annex I to the Protocol. 3. Where this derogation procedure is applied, the two parties shall also agree on the practical arrangements for landings relating to the in-kind contribution provided for in paragraph 2 of Chapter III of Annex I to the Protocol, including the possibility of deferring the landings of those cumulative contributions to a forthcoming trip landing in a Mauritanian port. 4. The derogation shall apply provided the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 are fulfilled. ( *1 ) Including in cases of insufficient storage space (and/or shortage of containers), shortage of ice or of electricity in port for the catches of the vessel concerned.’ ’
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