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;’;
- ‘2.
- 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.’;
- ‘9.
- 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 10Information 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:’;
- (a)
- 8.
Annexes I and II are replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.