{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-640/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-640/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Re-export validation",
  "text": "1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n2. Upon a request made under Article 6(2)(b), the licensing authority must not validate the re-export certificate unless the authority is satisfied—\n(a) all the information contained in the re-export certificate has been established to be accurate,\n(b) the validated catch document(s) submitted in support of the re-export certificate had been accepted for the importation of the products declared on the re-export certificate,\n(c) the products to be re-exported are wholly or partly the same products appearing on the validated catch document(s), and\n(d) a copy of the catch document(s) is attached to the validated re-export certificate.\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4.) Each licensing authority must—\n(a) promptly send a copy of any re-export certificate it has validated to the competent authorities of the State where the bluefin tuna is due to be imported and to the ICCAT Secretariat;\n(b) retain a copy of each re-export certificate it has validated or received for a minimum period of two years.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 7(1) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 4(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(2) substituted (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(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 7(3) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/439), regs. 1(1), 4(6)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 7(4) inserted (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(6)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/640/article/7",
    "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."
}