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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-640/article-9",
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  "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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Verification",
  "text": "1. The licensing authorities must ensure that appropriate measures are put in place to attempt to identify each lot of bluefin tuna landed in, transhipped in, domestically traded in, imported into or exported or re-exported from Great Britainand, where identified, that the validated catch document(s) and related documentation of each lot of bluefin tuna are requested and examined. ...\n2. Where appropriate, the examination referred to in paragraph 1 may include an examination of the content of the lot to verify the information contained in the bluefin tuna catch document and in related documents and, where necessary, ... verifications with the operators concerned.\n3. If, as a result of examinations or verifications carried out pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2, a doubt arises regarding the information contained in a bluefin tuna catch document, the licensing authoritymustcommunicate with the relevant authority which validated the catch document(s) or re-export certificate(s) to resolve such doubts.\n4. If a licensing authority identifies a lot with no bluefin tuna catch document, it must notify its findings to —\n(a) the relevant authority for the exporting State, where the exporting State is a contracting party, or a non-contracting cooperating party, to the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, and\n(b) where known, the relevant authority for the flag State of the fishing boat, where the flag State is a contracting party, or a non-contracting cooperating party, to the Convention.\n5. Pending the examinations or verifications under paragraphs 1 and 2, the licensing authority must not release the lot for domestic trade, import or export ....\n6. Where the licensing authority, as a result of examinations or verifications pursuant to this Article and in cooperation with the validating authorities concerned, determines that a bluefin tuna catch document or re-export certificate is invalid, the domestic trade, import, export or re-export of the lot of bluefin tuna concerned must be prohibited.\n(7.) In paragraph 1 “the licensing authorities” means the Marine Management Organisation, the Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(1) 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(9)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 9(10)(a)(iii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1599, reg. 3(2)(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(1) 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(9)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(1) 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(9)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(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(9)(a)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(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(9)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(2) 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(9)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(2) 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(9)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) 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(9)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) 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(9)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 9(10)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) 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(9)(c)(iii)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Art. 9(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 9(10)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4) 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(9)(d)(i)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(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(9)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4) 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(9)(d)(iii)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 9(10)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(5) 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(9)(e)(i)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(5) 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(9)(e)(ii)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(6) 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(9)(f)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F21",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(6) 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(9)(f)(ii)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F22",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(6) 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(9)(f)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F23",
      "text": "Word in Art. 9(6) 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(9)(f)(iv)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F24",
      "text": "Art. 9(7) 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(9)(g)"
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