Closed areas for purse-seine fisheries
Article 1
Regulation (EU) No 53/2010 is amended as follows: 1. Article 1(2) is deleted; 2. the following Article is inserted: ‘Article 30a Closed areas for purse-seine fisheries The fishing by purse-seine vessels for bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna shall be prohibited in the following high seas areas: (a) the international waters enclosed by the boundaries of the exclusive economic zones of Indonesia, Palau, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea; (b) the international waters enclosed by the boundaries of the exclusive economic zones of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.’; 3. Annex IA is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation; 4. Annex IB is replaced by the text in Annex II to this Regulation; 5. Annex IH is replaced by the text in Annex III to this Regulation; 6. Annex III is replaced by the text in Annex IV to this Regulation.