# 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 (notified under document C(2011) 1984) (2011/207/EU) (revoked), Division 1.6: Inspection tasks on farm installations

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
Status: repealed

Officials shall systematically verify:
(1)that the relevant documentation is present and duly completed and reported (bluefin tuna catch document and re-export certificate, transfer and caging declarations, transhipment declaration);
(2)that the caging operation has been previously authorised by the catching vessel flag State authorities;
(3)that an ICCAT regional observer was present during all transfer, caging and harvesting of bluefin tuna, and has validated the caging declarations;
(4)that all the transfer and caging activities in the farm have been monitored by video camera in the water, and that the video record is made available for the inspectors and complies with the video recording requirements as defined in Annex 9 to ICCAT Recommendation 12-03.
(5)that all caging activities have been subject to a programme using stereoscopical cameras or techniques that provide the equivalent precision in order to refine the number and weight of fish being caged;
(6)that the farming State will not accept caging of bluefin tuna where the quantity by number and/or weight above that authorised to be caged by the flag State.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/207/annex/II/division/1/division/1.6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-207/annex-II/division-1/division-1.6
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