{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627/article-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1627/article-32.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/32",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Transhipment",
  "text": "1. It is prohibited for a UK fishing boat to tranship bluefin tuna in the ICCAT Convention area unless at a designated port.\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3A. It is prohibited for a UK fishing boat to tranship bluefin tuna at a designated port without the prior authorisation of the boat’s fisheries authority.\n4. For any transhipment operations at a UK designated port or involving a UK fishing boat at a designated port outside of the UK, the masters or representatives of the receiving fishing vessels must, at least 72 hours before the estimated time of arrival, provide the fisheries authority for the designated port or the competent authority of the contracting party whose port they want to use with the information required by the transhipment declaration set out in Annex 3. . . .\n5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n7. All transhipments at a designated port in the United Kingdom must be inspected by the fisheries authority for the port which must:\n(a) inspect the receiving fishing vessel on arrival and check the cargo and documentation related to the transhipment operation;\n(b) send a record of the transhipment to the flag State authority of the transhipping fishing vessel, within five days after the transhipment has ended.\n8. By way of derogation from Articles 21 and 22 of Regulation ... 1224/2009, the master of a UK fishing boat which has transhipped any quantity of bluefin tuna must, whatever the length of the vessel, complete and send the ICCAT transhipment declaration to the boat’s fisheries authority in the format specified in Annex 3 and within 5 days of the date of the transhipment. The master must link the transhipment declaration with the relevant electronic bluefin tuna catch document for the bluefin tuna in question.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(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(25)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 32(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), 6(25)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(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(25)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 32(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), 6(25)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 32(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(25)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 32(3A) 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(25)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(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(25)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in Art. 32(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(25)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in Art. 32(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(25)(d)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(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(25)(d)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(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(25)(d)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Art. 32(4)(a)-(e) 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(25)(d)(vi)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Art. 32(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), 6(25)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Art. 32(6) 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(25)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(7) 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(25)(f)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(7) 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(25)(f)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(8) 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(25)(g)(i)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(8) 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(25)(g)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(8) 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(25)(g)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Words in Art. 32(8) 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(25)(g)(iv)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1627/article/32",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}