What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

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Added:(10) “designated landing point” means a port, place close to the shore, offshore terminal or other installation for landing, transhipping, packaging, or processing, or for refuelling or resupplying fishing vessels, where landings, transhipments, packaging or processing operations of fishery products are permitted, designated by the GFCM Contracting Parties and cooperating non-contracting parties under the regional scheme on port state measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities in the GFCM Agreement area;

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 22, Article 37c: deleted / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted)

Added:(11) “catch certificate” means an official document accompanying a consignment and validated by the competent authority, allowing the passing of accurate and verifiable information concerning fishery products throughout the supply chain;

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Added:(12) “catch documentation scheme” or “CDS” means a system established in accordance with relevant international obligations, with the primary purpose of helping to determine, throughout the supply chain, whether a fishery product originates from catches that are compliant with applicable international, regional and national conservation and management measures.’;

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 22, Article 37d: deleted / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted)

Added:(2) Article 4 is replaced by the following:

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Added:‘Article 4

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 23, Article 44 – paragraph 3: 3. When a trigger catch level of red coral as referred to in paragraph 4 has been reached, Member States shall close the area concerned to any red coral fishery on precautionary grounds. The Member State shall immediately inform the Commission. The Commission shall inform as soon as possible the GFCM Secretariat.”;

Added:Scope

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Added:This Chapter applies to all fishing activities catching European eel (Anguilla anguilla), namely targeted, incidental and recreational fisheries, in all the waters of the Mediterranean Sea as provided for in Annex I, including freshwaters and transitional and brackish waters, such as lagoons and estuaries.’;

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 23 a (new), Article 46 – paragraph 2: (23a) In Article 46, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: / ‘2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the use of ROVs is permitted exclusively for scientific purposes within the GFCM research programme until the end of that programme and within Member States authorised research programmes led by scientific institutions. Such authorisations shall be without prejudice to stricter measures adopted by Member States.’

Added:(3) in Article 12, the following paragraphs are added:

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Added:‘4. Member States shall set up a traceability system for landings, sales and exports allowing catches to be traced from the designated landing point to final destination, irrespective of whether the specimens are sold alive, dead or transformed.

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 24 a (new), Article 55: (24a) Article 55 is replaced by the following: / ‘Article 55 / 1. Member States shall fully implement the red coral Catch Documentation Scheme (CDS) along the entire supply chain in order to ensure the traceability of red coral (Corallium rubrum) harvested in the Mediterranean Sea and contribute to the fight against IUU fishing activities. / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / 2. The paper-based red coral Catch Documentation Scheme established in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be without prejudice to other national traceability systems in force ensuring the same level of control over the traceability of red coral products by Member States. / 3. The paper-based red coral Catch Documentation Scheme shall apply to first landings, exports and re-exports. Domestic trade shall not be included in the validation chain / 4. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, a transitional period of one year shall be established, during which time red coral stored prior to ... [the date of entry into force of this amending Regulation] may be exported or re-exported without a validated catch section in the harvest certificate. / 5. In order to ensure a link between validated Catch Documentation Scheme documents and red coral consignments to which they relate, a labelling system may be established by Member States. / 6. Each consignment of red coral, imported, exported or re-exported from its origin, shall be accompanied by a validated certificate as referred to in Annex XX or an equivalent docum…

Added:5. Member States shall maintain and keep up-to-date a list of auction halls, bodies or persons authorised by that Member State to undertake the first placing on the market of European eel.’;

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Added:(4) the following article is inserted:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 29, Article 60a – paragraph 1: Member States shall ensure that the overall fleet capacity of the fleets operating with bottom trawls and actively fishing for the key stocks does not exceed in terms of gross tonnage (GT), engine power (kW) and number of vessels, as recorded both in national and GFCM registers, does not exceed, the fleet capacity for demersal fisheries in year 2021”;

Added:‘Article 12a

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Added:Data collection

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 31 a (new), Article 63: (31a) Article 63 is deleted.

Added:1. Member States shall transmit to the Commission or a body designated by it the data available, including estimates where IUU fishing is known to occur. The Commission or a body designated by it shall transmit the IUU fishing information to the GFCM Secretariat as soon as possible.

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Added:2. Member States shall communicate data pertaining to fattening activities to the Commission by 15 December of each year. The Commission shall transmit those data to GFCM Secretariat by 31 December of each year.

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 31 b (new), Article 64: (31b) Article 64 is deleted.

Added:3. On a voluntary basis, Member States may transmit additional information to the Commission, which shall transmit it to the GFCM Secretariat.’;

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Added:(5) the following article is inserted:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 32, Article 65 – paragraph 5: (32) Article 65 is deleted. / (deleted)

Added:‘Article 14a

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Added:Fleet management measures

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 33 – point -a (new), Article 70 – paragraph 1: (-a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: / ‘1. Member States shall establish a list of vessels flying their flag and authorised to fish for the species listed in Article 66 using means of otter-trawling, beam-trawling, bottom pair trawling and otter twin trawls;’

Added:Member States ▌ shall ensure that the overall fleet capacity or fishing effort of fleets, operating with demersal trawls, actively fishing for key stocks listed in Article 13 does not exceed, in terms of gross tonnage (GT ▌ ), engine power (kW) and number of vessels, as recorded both in national and GFCM registers, over the duration of the relevant management plan, the number of vessels or fishing effort for otter trawlers fishing deep water shrimps during the period 2014 to 2017, or over another period of three consecutive years such as the period 2015 to 2018, provided that the increase, in terms of GT, kW and number of vessels, does not exceed 50 % compared to the 2014-2017 reference period. ▌’;

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Added:(6) Article 15 is amended as follows:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 35, Article 73 – paragraph 1: This section applies to all fishing activities targeting key small pelagic stocks (anchovy - Engraulis encrasicolus and sardine - Sardina pilchardus) in GSAs 17 and 18 as provided for in Annex I by means of purse seiners and pelagic trawlers".

Added:(a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

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Added:‘1. Member States shall communicate to the Commission by 15 March of each year the list of all fishing vessels that are authorised to fish for and are actively fishing for the species listed in Article 13 for a given year. The Commission shall transmit that list to the GFCM Secretariat by 31 March of each year. That list shall include, for each vessel, the information referred to in Annex VIII.’;

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 35 a (new), Article 74 – paragraph 5: (35a) In Article 74, paragraph 5 is deleted.

Added:(b) the following paragraph is added:

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Added:‘4. Vessels operating with otter trawls within the scope of this section shall only be allowed to carry out specific fishing activities if those activities are indicated in a valid fishing authorisation issued by the competent authorities.’;

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 36, Article 74c – paragraph 2: 2. It shall be prohibited to land or tranship from fishing vessels any quantity of catches of anchovy and sardine fished by purse-seines or pelagic-trawls in the Adriatic Sea at any place other than the designated landing sites by Member States.

Added:(7) in Article 16, point 3 is replaced by the following:

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Added:‘(3) total catch and discards.’;

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 36, Article 74c – paragraph 3: 3. Member States shall communicate to the Commission by 15 November of each year any change to the list of designated landing sites in which landings of anchovy and sardine may take place. The Commission shall transmit this information by 30 November of each year.

Added:(8) Article 17 is amended as follows:

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Added:(a) the title is replaced by the following:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 36, Article 74f – paragraph 3: 3. During the transitional period, the Member States shall apply spatial closures to vessels over 12 metres LOA for no less than 9 months. Such closures shall cover 30 percent of the territorial or internal waters identified as important for the protection of early-age classes of fish.

Added:‘Temporal restrictions’;