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Percentage of inspections
High Seas Fishing (Monitoring, Control And Surveillance) Regulations, reg. 45 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Each year, an inspection of not less than 5% of all discharges and transshipments shall be carried out with the exception of those discharges and transshipments whose products are intended for the EU market, in which case 100% of all discharges shall be inspected.
(2) The following vessels shall be inspected in all cases–
(a) vessels that have failed to provide complete information as required under regulation 46;
(b) any request from other States or a particular RFMO that a particular vessel be inspected,
particularly when such request is supported by evidence of IUU fishing by the vessel in question; and
(c) where reasonable grounds exist for suspecting that a vessel has engaged in IUU fishing.
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