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2012/246/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 2 May 2012… Article 1

2012/246/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 2 May 2012… Article 1

Information of infringements

Article 1

Decision 2011/207/EU is amended as follows: 1. the title is replaced by the following: ‘Commission Implementing Decision of 29 March 2011 establishing a specific control and inspection programme related to the recovery of bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean’; 2. in Article 3, point 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. all catches, landings, transfers, transhipments and caging operations, including sampling programmes and pilot studies;’; 3. in Article 4, the following points 9 and 10 are added: ‘9. the implementation of pilot studies on how to better estimate both the number and weight of bluefin tuna at the point of capture; 10. the implementation of sampling programmes and/or alternative programmes at the time of caging in order to improve the counting and the weight estimations of the caged fish.’; 4. in Article 9, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1.   Member State intending to conduct surveillance and inspect fishing vessels in the waters under the jurisdiction of another Member State in the framework of a Joint Deployment Plan shall notify its intentions to the contact point of the coastal Member State concerned, as referred to in Article 80, point 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, and to the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA).’; 5. Article 10 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 10 Information of infringements Member States whose officials detect any infringement while carrying out an inspection on the activities listed in Article 3 shall inform without delay the Commission of the date of inspection and the details of the infringement.’; 6. in Article 14, the words ‘the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA)’ are replaced by the words ‘the EFCA’. 7. Article 15 is amended as follows: (a) in paragraph 1, the words ‘the CFCA’ are replaced by the words ‘the EFCA’; (b) in paragraph 3, the introductory sentence is replaced by the following: ‘3.   This report shall contain the following information, in accordance with the table set out in Annex IV:’; 8. Annexes I and II are replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

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