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1. Each Member State with a bluefin tuna quota shall establish an annual farming management plan.

2. In the annual farming management plan, each Member State shall ensure that the total input capacity and the total farming capacity are commensurate with the estimated amount of bluefin tuna available for farming.

————— 4. The maximum input of wild caught bluefin tuna into the farms of a Member State shall be limited to the level of the input quantities registered with ICCAT in the ‘record of bluefin tuna farming facilities’ by the farms of that Member State in the years 2005, 2006, 2007 or 2008.

5. If a Member State needs to increase the maximum input of wild caught tuna in one or more of its tuna farms, that increase shall be commensurate with the fishing opportunities allocated to that Member State, and with any live bluefin tuna imports from another Member State or Contracting Party.

6. Member States shall report statistics on the annual amount of caging (input of wild caught fish), harvesting and export to the Commission, who shall transmit the data to the ICCAT Secretariat, until such time as the ICCAT Secretariat has developed data extraction functionality in the eBCD system and such a functionality becomes available.

7. Where appropriate, Member States shall submit revised farming management plans to the Commission by 15 May of each year for transmission to the ICCAT Secretariat by 1 June of each year.