Division 1 OBJECTIVE

The general objective of the specific control and inspection programme shall be the verification of compliance with applicable legislation concerning:

1. (a)

   quantitative restrictions on catches and any specific conditions associated therewith, including the monitoring of quota uptake;

2. (b)

   the documentation required by the legislation applicable to the pelagic fisheries, in particular the reliability of the information recorded and reported;

3. (c)

   landing and weighing procedures;

4. (d)

   transhipments;

5. (e)

   the high grading ban provided for in Article 1(2)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1288/2009 of 27 November 2009 establishing transitional technical measures from 1 January 2010 to 30 June 2011^f1 and any failure to land pelagic species caught during a fishing operation as referred to in Article 90(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.