Article 12 · Regulation (EU) 2023/675

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Article 12Verification of CDS documents received by Member States#

1.Member States shall carry out verifications, including inspections of vessels, landings and where possible markets, to the extent necessary to validate the information contained in the CDS documents. Member States shall not validate CDS documents that are incomplete or contain incorrect information.

2.Without prejudice to the verifications required pursuant to Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008, Member States shall ensure that their competent authorities identify each consignment of SBF imported into, or exported or re-exported from the Union and examine the CDS documents for each consignment of SBF. The competent authorities may also examine the content of the consignment to verify the information contained in the CDS documents and related documents and, where necessary, shall carry out verifications with the operators concerned.

3.Member States shall report to the Commission details regarding the measures undertaken to ensure compliance with paragraphs 1 and 2.

4.Each Member State shall, as soon as possible, notify the Commission of any consignments of SBF where there are doubts about the information contained in any CDS documents or related documents, or incomplete, missing or non-validated CDS documents. The Commission shall report that information to the Secretariat without delay.

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Annual VMS summary report
means the document the format of which is set out in Attachment A to CCSBT-CC/0910/06 or in any document which supersedes it, in which the relevant VMS information is provided;
catch monitoring form
means the document set out in Annex I, that records information on the catch, transhipment, export and import of SBF;
catch tagging form
means the document set out in Annex II, that records information on individual fish tagged;
CDS
means the specific catch documentation scheme for SBF established by the CCSBT comprising the catch monitoring form, catch tagging form and export or re-export form;
Compliance Committee
means the subsidiary body of the CCSBT that monitors, reviews and assesses compliance with conservation and management measures;
conservation and management measures
means the resolutions and other binding measures adopted by the CCSBT;
draft IUU vessel list
means the initial list drawn up by the Secretariat.
Export
includes both exports and re-exports
export or re-export form
means the document set out in Annex III, that contains information on SBF already tracked on the catch monitoring form of an import that is, either in full or part, exported or re-exported;
import
means the introduction of SBF into the territory of the Union, including for transhipment purposes at ports in its territory;
processed SBF
means SBF which has undergone cleaning, gilling gutting, freezing, removal of fins, operculae (gill plates/covers) and tail and removal of the head or parts of the head;
re-export
means any movement from the territory of the Union of SBF that had been previously imported into the territory of the Union;
Record of Vessels
means the record of vessels established by the CCSBT authorised to fish for or by-catch SBF;
SBF
means southern bluefin tuna or fish products originating from southern bluefin tuna;
transhipment
means the unloading of all or any fishery product(s) on board a fishing vessel to another fishing vessel;
transhipment declaration
means the document set out in Annex IV;
Union fishing vessel
means any vessel flying the flag of a Member State, used or intended for use for the purposes of 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, but excluding container vessels;
whole SBF
means SBF which has not undergone filleting or loining;