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1. Each farm Member State shall nominate a single competent authority responsible for coordinating the collection and verification of information on caging operations conducted within its jurisdiction, for the control of activities in farms under its jurisdiction, and for reporting to and cooperating with the competent authorities of the flag and trap Member States and CPCs of the vessels or traps that caught the caged tuna.

2. All bluefin tuna fishery and farm activities shall be subject to the control set out in the annual monitoring, control and inspection plan submitted under Article 14.

3. Member States involved in caging related activities shall exchange information and cooperate to ensure that the number and weight of bluefin tuna individuals intended for caging are accurate, consistent with the catch amounts reported by the master of the purse seine vessel or the trap operator and declared in the relevant sections of the eBCD.

4. Farm Member States shall ensure that farm operators maintain at all times an accurate schematic plan of their farms, indicating the unique identifying numbers referred to in Article 45c, of all cages and their individual position in the farm. That plan shall be made available at all times to the competent authority of the farm Member State for control purposes and to the ICCAT regional observer deployed in the farm. Any update of the schematic plan shall be subject to prior notification to the competent authority of the farm Member State. The schematic plan shall be updated each time the number or distribution of farm cages is modified.

5. The competent authority of the farm Member State shall retain all the information, documentation and material related to caging operations conducted in farms under its jurisdiction for at least 3 years and keep the information as long as necessary for enforcement purposes. This obligation shall apply mutatis mutandis to farm operators as regards caging operations conducted on their farms.