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

Freezer tuna seiners

France

Tuna fishing

Surface longliners over 100 GT

France

Portugal

United Kingdom

Tuna fishing

Surface longliners of 100 GT or below

France

Demersal fishing

Exploratory line or bottom longline fishing

France

If licence applications from these Member States do not cover all the fishing opportunities laid down by the Protocol, the Commission may take into consideration licence applications from any other Member State.

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 31/2008 of 15 November 2007 on the conclusion of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Madagascar