Council Regulation (EU) No 1210/2014 of 16 October 2014 on the allocation of the fishing opportunities under the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau

1 The fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (‘the Protocol’) shall be allocated among the Member States as follows: (a) freezer shrimp trawlers: Spain2500 GRTGreece140 GRTPortugal1060 GRT (b) freezer, fin-fish and cephalopod trawlers: Spain2900 GRTItaly375 GRTGreece225 GRT (c) freezer tuna seiners and longliners: Spain14 vesselsFrance12 vesselsPortugal2 vessels (d) pole-and-line tuna vessels: Spain9 vesselsFrance3 vessels

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

3 If applications for fishing authorisations from the Member States referred to in paragraph 1 do not exhaust the fishing opportunities set out in 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.

4 The deadline within which the Member States must confirm that they are not making full use of their fishing opportunities granted to them under the Agreement, as provided by Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008, is set at 10 working days as from the date on which the Commission communicates this information to them.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from the date of signing of the Protocol.