Community vessels fishing in Gabon's EEZ shall allow on board any Gabonese officials responsible for inspection and monitoring of fishing activities and shall assist them in the accomplishment of their duties.

whereas, in order to avoid multiple inspections, which are in effect barriers to the free movement of vessels, arrangements should be made for the mutual recognition of inspection procedures by the Member States;

Where there are clear grounds for believing that a vessel navigating in the exclusive economic zone or the territorial sea of a State has, in the exclusive economic zone, committed a violation referred to in paragraph 3 resulting in a substantial discharge causing or threatening significant pollution of the marine environment, that State may undertake physical inspection of the vessel for matters relating to the violation if the vessel has refused to give information or if the information supplied by the vessel is manifestly at variance with the evident factual situation and if the circumstances of the case justify such inspection.

Where the inspection reveals that the copy of the document of compliance or the safety management certificate issued in accordance with the International management code for the safe operation of ships and for pollution prevention (ISM Code) are missing on board a vessel to which, within the Community, the ISM Code is applicable at the date of the inspection, the competent authority shall ensure that the vessel is detained.

The technical inspection shall verify that the vessel's technical characteristics and gear conform to the provisions of the Agreement and that the provisions relating to its Mauritanian crew have been complied with.

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.

The competent authority of a Member State that has boarded and/or inspected a stateless vessel shall immediately inform the Commission of the inspection findings and of any action it has taken under international law.

Community vessels fishing within the Kiribati fishing zone shall permit and facilitate the boarding and fulfilment of the tasks of Kiribati officials responsible for the inspection and monitoring of fishing activities.

Between the times of commencing and terminating their duties under the scheme inspectors and special inspection vessels and aircraft may not, with respect to vessels and aircraft under the jurisdiction of other Contracting Parties, enforce laws and regulations related to the zone of the Contracting Party which has assigned them.

Whereas Member States, as port authorities, are required to enhance safety and prevention of pollution in Community waters through priority inspection of vessels carrying certificates of organizations which do not fulfil the common criteria, thereby ensuring no more favourable treatment to vessels flying the flag of a third State;

Member States shall inform the Commission by 1 January 2000 of the names of the inspectors and the inspection vessels and of the details of the aircraft they are intending to assign to the Scheme during the following year.

Member States shall see to it that any vessel assigned to the Scheme and carrying inspectors and any support vessels display a special flag or pennant to show that inspectors are carrying out an inspection under the Scheme.

By way of derogation from the previous paragraph, the technical inspection procedures applying to tuna vessels and surface longliners fishing for pelagic species shall be laid down in Chapters XIII and XIV of this Agreement.

Financial contributions towards the expenditure referred to in Article 2(e) shall cover investment in the acquisition or modernisation of vessels and aircraft used for control, inspection and surveillance of fishery activities.

In the event of a diversion, the duly authorized inspector shall take all necessary measures to ensure security and continuity of the evidence including, as appropriate, sealing the vessel's hold for eventual dockside inspection.

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 application for EC type-examination shall be lodged by the manufacturer or by his authorized representative with a single approved inspection body in respect of a prototype vessel or of a prototype representing a family of vessels.

Member States shall inform the Commission electronically of the date and time of the start and end of the activities of inspection vessels and aircraft, in the form determined in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 29(2).

No Member State may, on grounds relating to the construction or inspection of a vessel within the meaning of this Directive and the separate Directive relating to it, refuse, prohibit or restrict the marketing and placing into service of an EEC-type pressure vessel which complies with the requirements of this Directive and the separate Directive relating to it.

provision should therefore be made that Member States whose vessels are authorised to fish in the NEAFC Regulatory Area assign inspectors to the Scheme to undertake monitoring and surveillance, together with adequate resources for inspection;

Member States shall also be authorised to carry out inspections in accordance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy relating to fishing activities in all Community waters outside waters under their sovereignty on fishing vessels, only:

When a batch is examined, the inspection body shall ensure that the vessels have been manufactured and checked in accordance with the design and manufacturing schedule and perform a hydrostatic test or a pneumatic test of equivalent effect on each vessel in the batch at a pressure Ph equal to 1,5 times the vessel's design pressure in order to check its soundness.

This Regulation lays down control and inspection measures relating to fishing for stocks of the highly migratory fish species listed in Annex I to this Regulation and shall apply to vessels flying the flag of Member States and registered in the Community, (hereinafter referred to as Community fishing vessels), operating in one of the zones specified in Article 2.

Community vessels fishing in the Sao Tomé and Príncipe fishing zone shall permit and facilitate the boarding and fulfilment of the tasks of Sao Tomé and Príncipe officials responsible for the inspection and monitoring of fishing activities.

The competent authorities of the flag Member State shall, at the request of the inspection authorities of another Member State which are inspecting a vessel in the waters within its jurisdiction, confirm the information referred to in Article 4.

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.

When a batch is examined, the inspection body shall ensure that the vessels have been manufactured and checked in accordance with the design and manufacturing schedule and shall perform a hydrostatic test or, a pneumatic test of equivalent effect on each vessel in the batch at a pressure Ph equal to 1,5 times the vessel's design pressure in order to check its soundness.

Separate Directives shall lay down the design and construction requirements and inspection, testing and, where necessary, operating methods for the categories of pressure vessels to which they relate and, where appropriate, for ancillary equipment.

1.The inspection body, its director and the staff responsible for carrying out the verification tests shall not be the designer, manufacturer, supplier or installer of vessels which they inspect, nor the authorized representative of any of those parties.

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.

The inspecting Member State shall immediately send the original inspection report to the Commission, which shall immediately transmit it, with a copy to the ICCAT Executive Secretariat, to the competent authority of the flag country of the inspected vessel.

Once a year and after any alteration in tonnage or changes to the fishing category necessitating the use of a different type of gear, any Community vessel shall report to the port of Nouadhibou to undergo the inspections required by the legislation in force.

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.

Where verification is carried out in more than one stage, the EEC partial verification mark shall be affixed at the place of manufacture on the vessel or part of a vessel which is recognized as conforming to EEC requirements at that stage of the inspection procedure, and in the place specifically provided for the stamping place or in any other place specified in the separate Directives.

The inspection body, its director and the staff responsible for carrying out the verification tests may not be the designer, manufacturer, supplier, installer of vessels or installations which they inspect, nor the authorized representative of any of those parties.

Provisions on control, inspection and enforcement concern, on the one hand, obligations for the masters of fishing vessels and operators in the marketing chain and, on the other hand, spell out the different responsibilities for the Member States and the Commission.

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 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.

however, on reception of notification of payment of the advance sent to the Seychelles authorities by the European Commission, the vessel shall be entered on a list of vessels authorised to fish, which shall be sent to the Seychelles authorities responsible for inspection.

At the request of the Angolan authorities, Community fishing vessels operating under the terms of the Agreement shall allow on board any Angolan officials responsible for the inspection and monitoring of fishing activities and facilitate the accomplishment of their duties.

Whereas it is appropriate to establish detailed rules for the application of new provisions of the said scheme particularly those concerning the inspection of community fishing vessels operating in the NAFO zone and presumed to have committed a major apparent infringement;

cooperate with and assist in the inspection of the fishing vessel conducted in accordance with the procedures laid down in this Regulation, and shall not obstruct, intimidate or interfere with the inspectors in the performance of their duties and shall ensure their safety;

However, on receipt of notification of payment of the advance sent to the Mauritanian authorities by the Commission, the vessel shall be entered on a list of vessels authorized to fish, which shall be sent to the Mauritanian authorities responsible for fisheries inspection.

On arrival in the designated port, the vessel suspected of having committed an infringement shall undergo a thorough inspection under the authority of the flag Member State and in the presence of an NEAFC inspector from any other Contracting Party which wishes to participate.

If an apparent infringement of the Conservation and Enforcement Measures has been detected which in the view of the duly authorized inspector of the Contracting Party of the vessel as referred to in (ii) is sufficiently serious, that inspector shall take all necessary measures to ensure security and continuity of the evidence including, as appropriate, sealing the vessel's hold for eventual dockside inspection.'

At the request of the Angolan authorities, Community fishing vessels fishing under the terms of the Agreement shall allow on board any Angolan officials responsible for the inspection and monitoring of fishing activities and shall facilitate the accomplishment of their duties.

Whereas, in each Member State, mandatory provisions define in particular the safety level required of simple pressure vessels by specifying design and operating characteristics, conditions of installation and use and inspection procedures before and after placing on the market;

Whereas, in order to facilitate the mutual recognition of inspection procedures, adequate EEC pattern approval and EEC verification procedures for vessels should be set up and the criteria for appointing the bodies responsible for carrying out verifications should be harmonized;

during the fishing year, without delay and at the request of the Member State responsible for inspection, of the validity of a special fishing permit held by a vessel fishing in the waters in question, and on its own initiative, of the special fishing permits which have expired.

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.