Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 894/2014 prohibiting fishing activities for purse seiners flying the flag of or registered in Croatia, France, Italy, Malta and Spain fishing for bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean, east of longitude 45° W, and in the Mediterranean Sea.

By virtue of this Regulation, fishing for bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean, east of longitude 45° W, and the Mediterranean Sea by purse seiners flying the flag of or registered in Croatia, France, Italy, Malta and Spain shall be prohibited as from the dates specified for each Member State concerned. Bluefin tuna caught by those vessels as of those dates may not be retained on board, placed in cages for fattening or farming, transhipped, transferred or landed.