What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Added:(b) the following paragraph is added:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 45 a (new), Article 89 – paragraphs 2 a (new) and 2 b (new): (45a) in Article 89, the following paragraphs are added: / “2a. Member States shall ensure that all fishing vessels flying their flag and exploiting common dolphinfish record their fishing activities with FADs. / 2b. In the event of loss of a FAD, Member States shall ensure that the vessels flying their flag collect and report the last registered position of the lost FAD as well as the date of its last registered position, its identification number and any information allowing the identification of the FAD owner."

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.’;

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Added:(14) in Article 25, point 3 is replaced by the following:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 45 b (new), Article 89 a (new): (45b) the following Article is inserted in Title II, Chapter VII: / ‘Article 89a / Specific measures to address illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing / 1. Each Member State shall ensure that adequate mechanisms are in place for the registration of each fishing vessel in a national fleet register for the recording of the vessel’s catch and fishing effort in the logbook and for the monitoring of the vessel’s fishing activities and landings by means of surveys and sampling of catches and fishing effort, carried out in accordance with the rules laid out by the Member State. / 2. Member States shall designate landing sites at which landings by vessels actively fishing common dolphin fish in the Mediterranean Sea shall take place. For each designated landing site, the concerned Member States shall specify permitted landing and transhipping times and places. / 3. Member States shall carry out inspections on the basis of a risk analysis. It shall be prohibited to land or tranship from fishing vessels any quantity of common dolphinfish fished in the Mediterranean Sea at any place other than the designated landing sites by Member States in accordance with paragraph 2. / 4. By 15 November of each year, Member States shall communicate to the Commission any changes to the list of the designated landing sites at which landings of key stock in the Mediterranean Sea may take place. By 30 November of each year, the Commission shall transmit those changes to the GFCM Secretariat. / 5. Me…

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

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Added:(15) Article 26 is amended as follows:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 47, Article 94a – paragraph 1: 1. Member States shall fully implement the turbot Catch Documentation Scheme (CDS) along the entire supply chain in order to ensure the traceability of turbot caught in the Black Sea and contribute to the fight against IUU fishing activities.

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

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Added:‘Temporal restrictions’;

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 47, Article 94a – paragraph 2: 2. The paper-based turbot Catch Documentation Scheme established in paragraph 1 shall be without prejudice to other national traceability systems in force ensuring the same level of control over the traceability of turbot by Member States and shall include the information set out in Annex XXIV.

Added:(b) paragraph 1 is deleted;

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Added:(c) the following paragraph is added:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 47, Article 94a – paragraph 3: 3. The paper-based turbot Catch Documentation Scheme shall apply to first landings, exports and re-exports. Domestic trade shall not be included in the validation chain.

Added:‘1a. Bottom trawlers targeting giant red shrimp and blue and red shrimp spawning aggregations shall stop fishing for 30 consecutive days between March and December of each year.’;

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Added:(d) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 47, Article 94a – paragraph 4: 4. Each catch certificate shall have a unique document identification number. That number shall be specific to the flag Member State and be assigned to each fishing vessel. The catch certificates shall not be transferable to another fishing vessel.

Added:‘2. Member States shall communicate the temporal restrictions referred to in paragraph 1a to the Commission by 15 June of each year. The Commission shall transmit that information to the GFCM Secretariat by 30 June of each year.’;

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Added:(16) Article 27 is replaced by the following:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 47, Article 94a – paragraph 4 a (new): 4a. Member States shall validate fishing certificates only when all the information contained in the turbot Catch Documentation Scheme have been established to be accurate as a result of the verification of the supporting documents and corresponding consignment.

Added:‘Article 27

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Added:Reporting obligations

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 47, Article 94a – paragraph 4 b (new): 4b. Member States shall report to the Commission on their Catch Documentation Scheme, as well as possible tagging and identification requirements and traceability and tracking requirements for turbot, which shall be in line with the provisions of this article in order to effectively ensure that the traceability objective is met. The Commission shall notify the GFCM Secretariat of such reports.

Added:Notwithstanding Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, fishers or masters of authorised fishing vessels actively fishing within the scope of this section shall declare all catches and by-catch of giant red shrimp and blue and red shrimp, irrespective of the live weight of the catch.

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Added:Without prejudice to Article 34 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, each Member State shall monitor the consumption of the catch limits. From the date by which 80 % of the quota has been exhausted, the Member State concerned shall communicate to the Commission monthly reports on catch.

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 47, Article 94a – paragraph 4 c (new): 4c. Member States shall notify the Commission of their competent authorities responsible for validating, checking and verifying the catch certificates, as well as Catch Documentation Scheme contact points, validation seal and other information relevant to the implementation of the Catch Documentation Scheme. The Commission shall communicate that information to the GFCM Secretariat.

Added:The Commission shall report that information to the GFCM Secretariat without delay. Such reports shall be sent by the 15th day of each month for the previous month. When the catch limit has been reached, the Member State shall prohibit any further catches of the key stocks listed in Article 22.’;

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Added:(17) Article 29 is replaced by the following:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 47, Article 94a – paragraph 4 d (new): 4d. Member States shall maintain the validated paper-based turbot catch certificates for a period of five years.

Added:‘Article 29

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Added:Vessel monitoring system

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 47, Article 94a – paragraph 4 e (new): 4e. Member States shall report annually on the implementation of the paper-based turbot Catch Documentation Scheme to the Commission in view of notifying the Compliance Committee (CoC), providing detailed information and statistical data on, inter alia, annual quantities validated, annual quantities traded, number of harvest certificates validated, and any relevant elements considered to provide information on the state of play. The Commission shall submit the reports to the GFCM Secretariat no later than 30 days before the session of the CoC.

Added:Notwithstanding Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009, all vessels above 12 metres in LOA actively fishing within the scope of this section shall be equipped with a satellite-based VMS.

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Added:By way of derogation from the first paragraph, a Member State may allow a vessel of less than 15 metres in LOA▌ to operate without a satellite-based VMS until 8 January 2026, provided that such a vessel operates exclusively within the waters on the landward side of the outer limit of the territorial waters of that Member State or spends no more than 24 hours at sea from the time of departure to its return to port.

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 48, Article 96b – paragraph 3: 3. Member States shall ensure that any additional measure is taken to improve data collection for the purpose of the scientific monitoring of piked dogfish.

Added:Member States shall immediately report to the Commission any derogation it applies pursuant to the second paragraph ▌ as well as any means of control it deploys to monitor vessels of less than 15 metres in LOA. The Commission shall transmit that information to the GFCM Secretariat without delay.’;

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Added:(18) the following articles are inserted:

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 49 – point a, Article 98 – paragraph 1: 1. Member States shall ensure a high protection from fishing activities for elasmobranch species listed in Annex II and Annex III to of the Protocol concerning specially protected areas and biological diversity in the Mediterranean”.;

Added:‘Article 30a

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Added:Fisheries management measures or national management plans

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 49 – point b, Article 98 – paragraph 4 a (new): 4a. Member States shall be encouraged to take and adopt mitigation measures to minimise and eliminate, where possible, the incidental catch of elasmobranchs during fishing operations and increasing post-release survival rates in fisheries with a high risk of bycatch identified by the SAC and, where possible, in fisheries with a low risk of bycatch. Such measures shall be accompanied by an appropriate scientific monitoring to establish the efficacy of the actions and may include, inter alia: / (a) fishing gear modifications and alternative fishing gear types; / (b) improvements in fishing gear marking and detection; / (c) time-area fishing restrictions or closures, if appropriate and in particular in elasmobranch critical habitats; / (d) implementation of maximum potential bycatch thresholds; and / (e) use of magnetic deterrent devices, when based on scientific studies and after a cost-benefit evaluation.

Added:1. Member States shall adopt adequate fisheries management measures or national management plans within the scope of this section with the aim of ensuring that the exploitation ▌ of giant red shrimp and blue and red shrimp is at a level which ensures that the population reaches, and is maintained at, levels which can produce the maximum sustainable yield, in accordance with the relevant management plan for giant red shrimp and blue and red shrimp.

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Added:2. Member States shall communicate management measures or national management plans adopted pursuant to paragraph 1 and any modifications made to those measures or plans to the Commission by 15 April of each year. The Commission shall transmit those measures or plans and modifications thereof to the GFCM Secretariat by 30 April of each year.

Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 49 – point b, Article 98 – paragraph 4 b (new): 4b. The Member States may also consider, on a voluntary basis, other types of management such as incentive-based management, which rewards low impact operators while simultaneously driving poorly performing operators to adopt better practices or leave the industry, or market-based incentive management, which includes for example elasmobranch-safe and elasmobranch-friendly labelling in medium to high-risk fisheries.

Added:Article 30b

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