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1. Member States shall ensure that fishing vessels appearing in the NEAFC provisional (‘A’) or confirmed (‘B’) lists of vessels carrying out IUU fishing are:

(a) inspected in accordance with Article 45 when they enter their ports;

(b) not authorised to land or tranship in their ports;

(c) not given assistance in any way or allowed to participate in any transhipment or joint fisheries operations by fishing vessels, support vessels, refuel vessels, mother-ships and cargo vessels flying their flag; and (d) not supplied with provisions, fuel or other services.

2. Paragraph 1, points (b), (c) and (d), shall not apply to vessels appearing on the NEAFC IUU ‘A’ list where a recommendation has been made to NEAFC that the vessels in question should be removed from the ‘A’ list.

3. Further to the measures referred to in paragraph 1, Member States shall take the following measures regarding vessels appearing on the ‘B’ list:

(a) prohibit the entry into their ports of such vessels and communicate such prohibition in accordance with Article 44(3);

(b) prohibit the authorisation of such vessels to fish in waters under their national jurisdiction;

(c) prohibit the chartering of such vessels;

(d) refuse the granting of their flag to such vessels;

(e) prohibit the imports of fish coming from such vessels;

(f) prohibit importers, transporters and other sectors concerned from transhipping and trading of fishery products caught by such vessels; and (g) collect and exchange any appropriate information with other Member States and Contracting Parties other than the Union or cooperating non-Contracting Parties with the aim of detecting, controlling and preventing false import/export certificates regarding fishery products from such vessels.

4. Paragraph 1, point (d), and paragraph 3, points (a) and (d), shall not apply where Contracting Parties are permitted to supply provisions, fuel or other services or grant their flag to a vessel on the IUU list following a recommendation made to NEAFC based on satisfactory evidence showing that a vessel is destined for scrapping or permanent reassigment for purposes other than fishing activities.