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Chapter V contains changes to control measures, in particular: 3.6.1 The Commission will not accept any retroactive inclusion of fishing vessels or catching vessels on the lists that each Member State has to send it 45 days before the fishing season opens. 3.6.2 EU catching vessel owners are obliged to include in the daily logbook not only the information stipulated in the Community CFP standard control system, but also the information contained in Annex II to the proposal, so as to ensure strict monitoring of bluefish tuna fishing. 3.6.3 Joint fishing operations with other CPs are prohibited. 3.6.4 The whole of the article on transfer operations has been replaced, and a clearer and more effective control system for such operations is proposed. 3.6.5 The whole of the article concerning caging operations is replaced. 3.6.6 The article referring to the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) is extended, making it mandatory for fishing vessels included in the ICCAT bluefin tuna record of catching vessels to start transmitting VMS data to ICCAT at least 15 days before the opening of the fishing season and to continue at least 15 days after it closes. Furthermore, transmission is not to be interrupted when vessels are in port. 3.6.7 The recording and reporting of trap activities is amended to ensure that, in addition to communicating on trap catches at the end of each fishing operation, estimated quantities remaining in the trap are also transmitted. 3.6.8 Moreover, the ICCAT Scheme of Joint International Inspection is extended so that when at any time, more than 15 fishing vessels of a Member State are engaged in bluefin tuna fishing activities in the ICCAT Convention area, that Member State must, during that time, have an inspection vessel in the Convention area, or must cooperate with another Member State or CPC to jointly operate an inspection vessel. 3.6.9 Article 30, concerning the national observer programme, is amended to extend national observer coverage to ensure coverage for: — 100 % of active purse seine catching vessels equal to or less than 24 m in 2011; — 100 % of active purse seine catching vessels equal to or less than 20 m in 2012; — 100 % of towing vessels. 3.6.10 In the article on the ICCAT regional observer programme, paragraph 1 is amended so as to require each Member State to ensure an ICCAT regional observer presence on: — all purse seine vessels over 24 m during the 2011 fishing season; — all purse seine vessels over 20 m during the 2012 fishing season; — all purse seine vessels irrespective of their length during all the fishing season from 2013 onward. 3.6.10.1 Purse seine vessels referred to above without an ICCAT regional observer will not be authorised to fish or to operate in the bluefin tuna fishery. 3.6.11 The access to video records regulated by Article 32 is replaced in its entirety, with the addition of a new point obliging Member States to take the necessary measures to avoid any replacement, editing or manipulation of the original video record. 3.6.12 A new Article 33a is added, entitled ‘Transmission of the Union inspection plan to the ICCAT’, setting 15 September as the deadline for Member States to transmit to the Commission their inspection plan for the following year. The Commission is to transmit the EU inspection plan to the ICCAT Secretariat for endorsement. 3.6.13 Article 34(1), dealing with market measures, prohibits domestic trade, landing, imports, exports, placing in cages for fattening or farming, re-exports and transhipments of eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna that are not accompanied by accurate, complete and validated documentation required by the present Regulation; the amended Article 34(1) adds to this stipulation the documents required by Regulation (EU) No 640/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 establishing a catch documentation programme for bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus. 3.6.14 Lastly, the proposed amendments in Chapter V on control measures also entail the replacement and amendment of the regulation's annexes.