{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-640/article-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-640/article-3A.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2010/640",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-640",
  "path": "article/3A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Bluefin tuna catch document",
  "text": "1. Each licensing authority must seek to restrict any access it facilitates to the electronic catch document system, for the purpose of entering information—\n(a) only to UK fishing boats that the authority has licensed;\n(b) so that each electronic bluefin tuna catch document will be uniquely identifiable and unique to the UK fishing boat to which the catch relates.\n2. Each licensing authority must seek to ensure that paper bluefin tuna catch documents—\n(a) are only used where Article 5A applies;\n(b) are only given to UK fishing boats that the authority has licensed;\n(c) contain unique document identification numbers which are uniquely identifiable, unique to the UK fishing boat in question and non-transferrable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 3-5A substituted for arts 3-5 (1.4.2024) by The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 4(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/640/article/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:42.778991+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}