A Community inspector may be placed on board any Member State vessel or aircraft engaged or about to be engaged in inspection or surveillance duties in the NAFO regulatory area.' The scheme shall be replaced by that contained in the Annex to this Regulation.

For these purposes, the Commission may carry out inspections on fishing vessels as well as on the premises of businesses and other bodies with activities relating to the Common Fisheries Policy and shall have access to all information and documents needed to exercise its responsibility.

the number of inspections conducted by it under the scheme specifying the number of inspections on the vessels of each Contracting Party and, in the case of apparent infringement, the date and position of the inspection of the named vessel and the nature of the apparent infringement;

The Scheme provides for control measures applicable to vessels flying the flag of the Contracting Parties and operating in the NEAFC area, and arrangements for inspections at sea which include inspection and surveillance procedures and infringement procedures which must be implemented by the Contracting Parties;

Following notification to the Executive Secretary, and in the case of mutual agreement between the respective Contracting Parties, inspectors assigned by one Party may be placed on board the special inspection vessels or aircraft of another Party assigned to the scheme.

The Member State carrying out the inspection or, as appropriate, the Commission shall notify the details of the infringement committed by the inspected vessel, where possible during the working day following the start of the inspection, to the flag State of the inspected vessel and the Commission.

In the event of an apparent infringement or a difference between recorded catches and their estimates of catches on board, Community inspectors shall transmit to the Commission a copy of the inspection report with supporting documentation, including second photographs taken, as soon as possible after the inspection vessel returns to port.

upon inspection of a landing by the national fisheries inspection service, the vessel is found to have landed or to have retained on board more than 10 % more fish of any species (in live weight) than the quantity of that species declared in the logbooksheet(s) submitted under paragraph 17(b)(iii);

Community inspectors assigned to the Scheme in accordance with Article 2 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1956/88 shall communicate to the Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, telex address 24189 Fiseu-B, within the working day following the inspection, the details of apparent infringements of vessels inspected.

The competent authority for issuing health certificates for fishery products is the "State Fisheries Committee of the Russian Federation", assisted by the "National Centre of Quality and Safety of Fishery Products" (National Fish Quality) as inspection service for the approval and registration of establishments and vessels.

any presumed act committed or omitted by a fishing vessel that is recorded in an inspection report and gives serious reason for suspecting a breach of the provisions of this Regulation or any other Regulation transposing a recommendation adopted by a regional organisation for one of the zones indicated in Article 2;

The Programme provides for the mandatory inspection of non-Contracting Party vessels where they enter the ports of the Contracting Parties voluntarily and a prohibition on the landing and transhipment of catches if, during such inspection, it is established that they have been taken in breach of the conservation measures adopted by the NEAFC;

The Commission shall forward as soon as possible to the Flag States of the vessels inspected the originals of inspection reports which have been transmitted to it by Community inspectors or another Contracting Party concerning Community vessels where there is no apparent infringement or difference between recorded catches and inspectors' estimates of catches on board.

Copies of reports made by Community inspectors which involve vessels of another Contracting Party and concern apparent infringements or differences between recorded catches and the estimates of the inspectors shall be transmitted by the Commission together with supporting documentation, including second photographs taken, as soon as possible to the appropriate authorities of the Contracting Party for the inspected vessel.

The appropriate authorities of the Contracting Parties shall notify the Executive Secretary by 1 November each year of the names of the inspectors and special inspection vessels (which term includes fishing vessels carrying inspectors) and the type and call sign of the helicopters or other aircraft which they are assigning to the scheme in accordance with paragraph 13 of the scheme.

Inspections by the Commission carried out of its own accord and without the assistance of inspectors of the Member State concerned shall take place only on fishing vessels and places of first landing or first sales, and shall be limited to areas or stocks subject to a specific monitoring programme decided under Article 34c of Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93.

to continue to carry out in 1993, and without prejudice to subsequent years by mutual agreement, quarterly reviews of Canadian and Community surveillance and inspection activities and data, including reports of catches by their vessels in the NAFO Regulatory Area so as to ensure accurate and timely determination of the actual uptake of quotas.

Before any measures regarding the master or the crew of the vessel or any action regarding the cargo and equipment of the vessel are considered, other than those to safeguard evidence relating to the presumed infringement, a consultation meeting shall be held, within one working day from the receipt of the above information, between the Delegation of the European Commission in the Gabonese Republic, the ministry responsible for fisheries and the inspection authorities, possibly attended by a representative of the Member State concerned.

Article 2(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 provides that each Member State must ensure that the activities of its vessels outside the Community fishery zone are subject to proper monitoring and, where such Community obligations exist, to inspections and surveillance, in order to ensure compliance with Community rules applicable in those waters;

Member States, as port authorities, are required to enhance safety and prevention of pollution in Community waters through priority inspection of vessels flying the flag of a third country which has not ratified the STCW Convention, thereby ensuring no more favourable treatment to vessels flying the flag of a third State.

In the event of an apparent infringement committed by a Community vessel which is reported to it by a Community inspector the Commission shall inform the Flag State of the vessel, which shall take prompt action to receive and consider the evidence, conduct any further investigation necessary for disposition of the apparent infringement, inspect the vessel on its return to port whenever possible and cooperate fully with the Commission in order to ensure that the evidence of apparent infringement is prepared and preserved in a form which facilitates administrative or judicial action.

Where justified, the competent authority of the Flag Member State or the inspector authorized by the said authority of the vessel concerned shall, where duly authorized to do so, require the vessel to proceed immediately to a nearby port, chosen by the Master, which should be one of the following, St. John's, Halifax, the home port of the vessel or a port designated by the Flag Member State, for a thorough inspection under the authority of the Flag Member State and in presence of a NAFO inspector from any other Contracting Party that wishes to participate.

The said Scheme provides, inter alia, for the mandatory inspection of non-contracting party vessels when such vessels are voluntarily in the ports of Contracting Parties and, with due regard to the multispecies fisheries in the regulatory area of NAFO, a prohibition of landings and transhipments if, in the course of such inspection, it is established that the catch has been taken in contravention of conservation and enforcement measures established by NAFO as well as certain other collateral measures to be taken by Contracting Parties.

In the case of vessels authorised to fish in Angolan waters, before any measures regarding the master or the crew of the vessel or any action regarding the cargo and equipment of the vessel are considered, other than those to safeguard evidence relating to the alleged infringement, a consultation meeting shall be held, within 48 hours of receipt of the abovementioned information, between the Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities, the Fisheries and Environment Ministry and the inspection authorities, possibly attended by a representative of the Member State concerned.

Proposals adopted by the Commission for the allocation of catches in the Regulatory Area shall take into account the interests of Commission members whose vessels have traditionally fished within that Area , and , in the allocation of catches from the Grand Banks and Flemish Cap , Commission members shall give special consideration to the Contracting Party whose coastal communities are primarily dependent on fishing for stocks related to these fishings banks and which has undertaken extensive efforts to ensure the conservation of such stocks through international action , in particular , by providing surveillance and inspection of international fisheries on these banks under an international scheme of joint enforcement.

an inspection programme, both at sea and in port, including procedures for boarding and inspection of vessels, on a reciprocal basis;