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1. Member States shall ensure that their competent authorities identify each lot of bluefin tuna landed in, domestically traded in, imported into, or exported or re-exported from, their territory, and request and examine the validated BCD(s) and related documentation of each lot of bluefin tuna.

2. The competent authorities may examine the content of the lot to verify the information contained in the BCD and in related documents. Where necessary, the competent authorities shall carry out verifications with the operators concerned.

3. If, as a result of examinations or verifications carried out pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2, doubts arise regarding the information contained in a BCD, the Member State on whose territory the final import took place and the Member State or CPC whose competent authorities validated the BCD(s) or BFTRCs shall cooperate to resolve such doubts.

4. If a Member State identifies a lot with no BCD, it shall notify the findings to the Member State that domestically traded the lot, or the exporting CPC, and, where known, the flag Member State or the flag CPC.

5. Member States shall not release the lot for domestic trade, import or export, or, in the case of live bluefin tuna destined to farms, accept the transfer declaration until the examinations or verifications referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 have been carried out and confirm compliance of the bluefin tuna lot with the requirements of this Regulation and any other applicable Union law.

6. Domestic trade, import, export or re-export of the bluefin tuna shall be prohibited where a Member State, having carried out the examinations or verifications referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 and in cooperation with the validating authorities concerned, determines that the corresponding BCD or BFTRC is invalid.