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1. Prior to their deployment on a purse seine vessel, a trap, or a towing vessel, the entity operating the ICCAT regional observer programme shall provide a minimum of 25 ICCAT seals to each ICCAT regional observer under their responsibility and maintain a record of the seals provided and used 2. The donor operator shall be responsible for sealing the cages. For this purpose, a minimum of three seals, placed in such a way that they prevent the opening of the doors without breaking the seals, shall be put on each cage door.

3. The sealing operation shall be video recorded by the donor operator and shall allow the identification of the seals and the verification that the seals have been properly placed. The video recording shall comply with the minimum standards for video recording procedures set out in Annex X. The video record concerned shall accompany the fish to the farm of destination. A copy of the video record shall be kept on board the donor vessels or on the traps and be accessible for control purposes at any time during the fishing campaign. A copy of the video record shall be made available to the ICCAT regional observer on board the purse seine vessel or on the trap, or to the national observer on the receiving towing vessel, for transmission to the competent authority of the Member State or CPC, or ICCAT regional observer present at the subsequent control transfer.

4. The video record of the subsequent control transfer shall include the unsealing operation, which shall be undertaken in such a way as to allow the identification of the seals and the verification that the seals have not been tampered with.