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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 Tuna fishing Surface longliners Spain 13 Portugal 3 Tuna fishing Freezer tuna seiners Spain 12 France 12 If licence applications from these Member States do not exhaust all the fishing opportunities laid down by the Protocol, the Commission may take into consideration licence applications from any other Member State.

Definitions For the purposes of this Agreement:

(a) ‘Gabonese authorities’ means the Government of Gabon;

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

(c) ‘Gabonese waters’ means the waters over which Gabon has sovereignty or jurisdiction;

(d) ‘fishing vessel’ means any vessel equipped for commercial exploitation of living aquatic resources;

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

(f) ‘Joint Committee’ means a committee made up of representatives of the Community and Gabon, as specified in Article 9 of this Agreement;

(g) ‘transhipment’ means the transfer in port or at sea of some or all of the catch from one fishing vessel to another vessel;

(h) ‘unusual circumstances’ means circumstances, other than natural phenomena, which are beyond the reasonable control of one of the Parties and are such as to prevent fishing activities in Gabonese waters.