Article 1 
1. The fishing opportunities established under the Protocol shall be allocated among the Member States as follows: (a) tuna seiners: Spain: 20 vessels France: 19 vessels Italy: 1 vessel (b) surface longliners with a tonnage greater than 100 GT: Spain: 18 vessels France: 9 vessels Portugal: 5 vessels (c) surface longliners with a tonnage less than or equal to 100 GT: France: 22 vessels 2. The limits on the catching of sharks in combination with tuna and similar species, as established in the Annex to the Protocol for Union surface longliners, is distributed as follows amongst Member States: Spain: 207 tonnes France: 34 tonnes Portugal: 9 tonnes 3. Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008 applies without prejudice to the Agreement. 4. If applications for fishing authorisations from the Member States referred to in paragraph 1 do not exhaust the fishing opportunities set out in the Protocol, the Commission shall consider applications for fishing authorisations from any other Member State in accordance with Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008. 5. The time limit within which the Member States must confirm that they are not fully exhausting the fishing opportunities granted to them under the Protocol, as provided by Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1006/2008, is set at ten working days from the date on which the Commission communicates this information to them.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . It shall apply from the date of the signature of the Protocol and at the earliest from 1 January 2015.