Council Regulation (EU) No 134/2012 of 23 January 2012 concerning the allocation of fishing opportunities under the Protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Mozambique

1 The fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol shall be allocated among the Member States as follows: (a) tuna purse seiners: Spain22 vesselsFrance20 vesselsItaly1 vesselTotal43 vessels (b) surface longliners: Spain16 vesselsFrance8 vesselsPortugal7 vesselsUnited Kingdom1 vesselTotal32 vessels

2 Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008 shall apply without prejudice to the Agreement and the Protocol.

3 If applications for fishing authorisations from the Member States referred to in paragraph 1 do not cover all the fishing opportunities set by the Protocol, the Commission shall consider applications for fishing authorisations from any other Member State pursuant to Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008.

4 The deadline by which Member States are to confirm that they do not fully utilise the fishing opportunities allocated under the Agreement, as referred to in Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008, shall be set at 10 working days from the day on which Commission informs the Member States that the fishing opportunities have not been exhausted.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 February 2012.