Scope
Article 2
This Regulation applies to: (a) Union fishing vessels, and Union vessels engaged in recreational fisheries, which: (i) catch Mediterranean swordfish; or (ii) tranship or carry on board, including outside the ICCAT Convention area, Mediterranean swordfish; (b) third country fishing vessels, and third country vessels engaged in recreational fisheries, which operate in Union waters and which catch Mediterranean swordfish; (c) third country vessels which are inspected in Member States ports and which carry on board Mediterranean swordfish or fishery products originating from Mediterranean swordfish that have not been previously landed or transhipped at ports.