Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 establishes a system for control, inspection and enforcement to ensure compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy in the Union. That Regulation provides that, without prejudice to the primary responsibility of the coastal Member States, Union inspectors may carry out inspections in accordance with its provisions in Union waters and on Union fishing vessels outside Union waters.

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 404/2011 provides that the list of Union inspectors is to be adopted by the Commission on the basis of the notifications of Member States and of the European Fisheries Control Agency (‘the Agency’).

Some Member States and the Agency have notified amendments to the current list of inspectors. The list established by Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/706 should therefore be replaced by a new list of Union inspectors on the basis of those notifications.

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,