Council Regulation (EU) No 501/2011 of 24 February 2011 on the allocation of fishing opportunities under the Protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe

The fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol attached to Decision 2011/296/EU on the signing and provisional application shall be allocated among the Member States as follows: (a) tuna seiners: Spain16 vesselsFrance12 vessels (b) surface longliners: Spain9 vesselsPortugal3 vessels Without prejudice to the Agreement and the Protocol, Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008 shall apply. If applications for fishing authorisations from the Member States referred to in the first paragraph do not cover all the fishing opportunities set by the Protocol, the Commission shall consider applications for fishing authorisations from any other Member State in accordance with Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008. The deadlines referred to in Article 10(1) of that Regulation shall be set at 10 days.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.