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The fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol to the Agreement shall be allocated among the Member States as follows: Fishing category Type of vessel Member State Licences or quota Small-scale fishing/north, pelagic species Seiners Spain 20 Small-scale fishing/north Bottom longliners, <40 GT Spain 20 Portugal 7 Bottom longliners, >40 GT<150 GT Portugal 3 Small-scale fishing/south Spain 20 Demersal fishing Bottom longliners Spain 7 Portugal 4 Trawlers Spain 10 Italy 1 Tuna fishing Pole-and-line vessels Spain 23 France 4 Industrial fishing for pelagic species Germany 4 850 t Lithuania 15 520 t Latvia 8 730 t Netherlands 19 400 t Ireland 2 500 t Poland 2 500 t United Kingdom 2 500 t Spain 400 t Portugal 1 333 t France 2 267 t

The management of fishing opportunities shall be conducted in full accordance with Article 20 of Council Regulation (EC) 2371/2002 of 20 December 2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy . If licence applications from these Member States do not cover all the fishing opportunities laid down by the Protocol to the Agreement, the Commission may take into consideration licence applications from any other Member State.

Definitions For the purposes of this Agreement, the Protocol and the Annex:

(a) ‘Moroccan fishing zone’ means the waters falling within the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Morocco;

(b) ‘Moroccan authorities’ means the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Sea Fisheries — Sea Fisheries Department;

(c) ‘Community authorities’ means the European Commission;

(d) ‘Community vessel’ means a fishing vessel flying the flag of a Member State of the Community and registered in the Community;

(e) ‘Joint Committee’ means a committee made up of representatives of the Community and Morocco whose functions are described in Article 10 of this Agreement.