Chapter IV, Section 2, Article 24, Paragraph 3. · Regulation (EU) 2022/2343

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3.Member States shall submit to the Commission the list of vessels complying with the requirements of paragraph 1 which are authorised to operate in the Area. That list shall include the following information for each vessel:

(a)name of vessel(s), register number(s);

(b)IMO number;

(c)previous name(s) (if any) or indication of its non-availability;

(d)previous flag(s) (if any) or indication of its non-availability;

(e)details of previous deletion from other registries (if any) or indication of their non-availability;

(f)international radio call sign(s) (if any) or indication of its non-availability;

(g)port of registration;

(h)type of vessel(s), overall length (m) and gross tonnage (GT);

(i)total volume of fish hold(s) in cubic metres;

(j)name and address of owner(s) and operator(s);

(k)name and address of beneficial owner(s), if known and different from vessel owner/operator, or indication of their non-availability;

(l)name, address and registration number of company operating the vessel (if any);

(m)gear used;

(n)time period(s) authorised for fishing and/or transhipping;

(o)colour photographs of the vessel showing:

—the starboard and portsides, each showing the whole structure;

—the bow;

(p)at least one colour photograph clearly showing at least one of the external markings specified in point (a).

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AFAD
means a FAD tethered to the bottom of the ocean;
carrier vessel
means a support vessel engaged in transhipment and receiving IOTC species from another vessel;
chartering
means an agreement or an arrangement by which a fishing vessel flying the flag of a CPC is contracted for a defined period of time by an operator in another CPC without a change of flag;
chartering CPC
refers to the CPC that holds the quota allocation or fishing possibilities and the ‘flag CPC’ refers to the CPC in which the chartered vessel is registered;
CMM
means an applicable conservation and management measure adopted by the IOTC pursuant to Articles V(2)(c) and IX(1) of the Agreement;
data buoys
means floating devices, either drifting or anchored, that are deployed by governmental or recognised scientific organisations or entities for the purpose of electronically collecting and measuring environmental data, and not for the purpose of fishing activities;
DFAD
means a FAD not tethered to the bottom of the ocean;
e-PSM application
means the web-based application designed and developed to facilitate and assist a CPC to implement the IOTC resolutions related to port State measures;
FAD
means a permanent, semi-permanent or temporary object, structure or device of any material, man-made or natural, which is deployed and/or tracked for the purpose of aggregating target tuna species for consequent capture;
flag CPC
refers to the CPC in which the chartered vessel is registered;
the Agreement
means the Agreement for the establishment of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission;
the Area
means those parts of the Indian Ocean as defined in Article II of and Annex A to the Agreement;
unfit for human consumption
means a fish that is meshed or crushed in the purse seine, or is damaged due to depredation, or has died and spoiled in the net where a gear failure has prevented both the normal retrieval of the net and catch, and efforts to release the fish alive without including a fish that is considered undesirable in terms of size, marketability or species composition, or a fish that is spoiled or contaminated as the result of an act or omission of the crew of the Union fishing vessel;
Union fishing vessel
means any vessel of any size flying the flag of a Member State, equipped for commercial exploitation of marine biological resources, including support vessels, fish processing vessels, vessels engaged in transhipment and carrier vessels equipped for the transportation of fishery products, except container vessels;