{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-150/schedule-ANNEX/division",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-150/schedule-ANNEX/division.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2008/150",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 12 February 2008 on the signing, on behalf of the European Community, and the provisional application of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters on the amendments to the Protocol setting out, for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011, the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for by the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Seychelles on fishing off Seychelles (2008/150/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-150",
  "path": "schedule/ANNEX/division",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "CONDITIONS FOR THE PURSUIT OF FISHING ACTIVITIES BY COMMUNITY VESSELS IN SEYCHELLES WATERS",
  "text": "Chapter I — application for and issue of licences is hereby replaced as follows:\n‘CHAPTER I\nAPPLICATION FOR AND ISSUE OF LICENCES\nSECTION 1\nIssue of licences\n1 to 10:\nNo change.\n11.\nHowever, at the request of the European Community and where force majeure is proven, a vessel’s licence shall be replaced, for the remaining period of its validity, by a new licence for another vessel with similar characteristics to those of the first vessel, with no further fee due. However, if the gross tonnage (GT) of the replacement vessel is above that of the vessel to be replaced, the difference in fee shall be paid pro rata temporis.\n12 to 14:\nNo change.\nSECTION 2\nLicence conditions — fees and advance payments\n1.\nLicences shall be valid for one year and are renewable.\n2.\nFrom 18 January 2008 the fee shall be EUR 35 per tonne caught within Seychelles waters.\n3.\nLicences shall be issued once the following standard amounts have been paid to the competent national authorities:\nEUR 21 000 for tuna seiners, equivalent to the fees due for 600 tonnes of tuna and tuna-like species caught within Seychelles waters per year,\nEUR 4 200 for surface longliners of more than 250 GT, equivalent to the fees due for 120 tonnes of tuna and tuna-like species caught within Seychelles waters per year,\nEUR 3 150 for surface longliners of 250 GT or less, equivalent to the fees due for 90 tonnes of tuna and tuna-like species caught within Seychelles waters per year.\n4.\nNo change.\n5.\nNo change.\n6.\nWhere the shipowners do not agree with the statement submitted by the SFA, they may consult the scientific institutes competent for verifying catch statistics such as the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), the IEO (Instituto Español de Oceanografia) and IPIMAR (Instituto de Investigação das Pescas e do Mar), and thereafter discuss together with the Seychelles authorities, who shall inform the Commission thereof, to establish the final statement before 31 May of the current year. In the absence of observations by the shipowners at that date, the statement submitted by the SFA is considered as the final one.\n7.\nNo change.\n8.\nNo change.\n9.\nNo change.’\nChapter VI — Observers is hereby replaced as follows:\n‘CHAPTER VI\nOBSERVERS\n1.\nVessels authorised to fish in Seychelles waters under the Agreement shall take on board observers appointed by the competent regional fisheries organisation, following agreement between the Parties, or failing this by the Seychelles authorities on the terms set out below.\n1.1 to 14:\nNo change.’",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/150/schedule/ANNEX/division",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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