#32026R1171EU adds Port Victoria to approved ports for tropical tuna landings and transhipments
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Port Victoria in Mahé, Seychelles, is added to the EU-approved list of ports where certain tropical tuna purse seine catches can be landed or transhipped under special margin-of-tolerance rules for estimating unsorted catches. The change matters mainly for fishing operators, port authorities, control bodies, and businesses in the tropical tuna supply chain. It gives operators an additional approved port option, while keeping the port subject to EU fisheries control conditions and international rules against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.
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Key Changes
- Adds Port Victoria in Mahé, Seychelles, to the EU-approved list of ports for relevant tropical tuna purse seine landings and transhipments
- Amends Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/897 to reflect the new approved port
- Confirms that the port meets the EU conditions for third-country ports under the fisheries control rules
Obligations
What this law requires
Fishing operators using the special margin-of-tolerance derogation for estimating unsorted tropical tuna purse seine catches may land or tranship those catches at Port Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles, only because it is included in the EU-approved list of eligible ports.
Port Victoria must continue to satisfy the port conditions required under Chapter II of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1474, including the conditions referenced in Articles 4 and 5, to remain an approved port for unsorted tropical tuna landings and transhipments.
Competent control bodies must treat Port Victoria as an approved port when applying EU fisheries control rules to unsorted landings or transhipments from tropical tuna purse seine fisheries under the special margin-of-tolerance regime.