Conservation of fishery resources: catch documentation programme for bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus

Reference A9-0172/2021Committee PECHFood and agriculture

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The European Parliament adopted by 600 votes to 1, with 5 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a catch documentation programme for bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 640/2010.The European Parliament adopted its position at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure.This Regulation establishes a Union bluefin tuna catch documentation programme, in order to implement the bluefin tuna catch documentation scheme adopted by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), and the mandatory use of the electronic BCD (eBCD) system, with a view to identifying the origin of all bluefin…