# Regulation (EU) No 640/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 establishing a catch documentation programme for bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1984/2003, Article 3: Bluefin tuna catch document: prohibitions

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

1. Subject to paragraphs 2, 3 and 4, it is prohibited—
(a) to land or tranship any quantity of bluefin tuna at a designated port in Great Britain or in the Great Britain zone without a completed and validated bluefin tuna catch document for each fish;
(b) for a UK fishing boat to land or tranship any quantity of bluefin tuna at a designated port outside of Great Britain or the Great Britain zone without a completed and validated bluefin tuna catch document for each fish;
(c) for a person to trade domestically, import into, export from, or re-export from, Great Britain any quantity of bluefin tuna without a completed and validated bluefin tuna catch document for the lot.
2. The bluefin tuna catch document referred to in paragraph 1 does not require validation where Article 4(5) applies.
3. Where the total quantity of bluefin tuna landed by a UK fishing boat into a designated port in Great Britain or in the Great Britain zone is—
(a) less than one metric tonne, or
(b) no more than three fish,
the boat’s fishing logbook or the sales note for the fish may be used as a temporary catch document pending validation of the bluefin tuna catch document for up to seven days but this temporary catch document may not be used for export of the fish.
4. Where a fishing boat is required to land any bluefin tuna caught as by-catch, the prohibition on landing the fish without a bluefin tuna catch document in paragraph 1(a) and (b) does not apply where sale of the fish is prohibited and the fish is subject to confiscation on landing.
5. Where paragraph 1(a) applies to a fishing boat and the boat is also landing or transhipping tuna of the species Thunnus orientalis (“Pacific tuna”), the requirement for a completed and validated bluefin tuna catch document also applies to each Pacific tuna landed or transhipped.
6. Where—
(a) a fishing boat lands or tranships in contravention of a prohibition in paragraph 1(a) or (b), the master, the owner and the charterer (if any) are each guilty of an offence;
(b) a person contravenes a prohibition in paragraph 1(c), the person is guilty of an offence.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/640/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-640/article-3
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