{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627/article-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627/article-30.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/1627",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2016/1627 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2016 on a multiannual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 302/2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627",
  "path": "article/30",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Designated ports",
  "text": "1. Each fisheries authority must designate ports or places close to the shore (designated ports) where landing or transhipping operations of bluefin tuna are permitted.\n2. For each designated port, the fisheries authority must specify permitted landing and transhipping times and places and establish appropriate inspection and surveillance procedures in relation to such times and places.\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n4. It is prohibited for—\na) a fishing boat to land or tranship any quantity of bluefin tuna at any place in the United Kingdom or the United Kingdom zone other than at a designated port;\nb) a UK fishing boat to land or tranship any quantity of bluefin tuna at any place other than at a designated port.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 30(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 8(9)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 30(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), 6(23)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Art. 30(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), 6(23)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 30(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 8(9)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 30(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), 6(23)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 30(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), 6(23)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 30(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), 6(23)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Art. 30(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), 6(23)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1627/article/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:35.338359+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."
}