Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1853 of 12 September 2025 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008 of 29 September 2008 establishing a Community system to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, amending Regulations (EEC) No 2847/93, (EC) No 1936/2001 and (EC) No 601/2004 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1093/94 and (EC) No 1447/1999 (1), and in particular Article 30 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Chapter V of Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008 lays down procedures for the identification of fishing vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (‘IUU fishing’) as well as procedures for establishing a Union list of such vessels (‘the Union list’). Article 37 of that Regulation provides for actions to be taken against fishing vessels included in that list.

(2) The Union list was established by Commission Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 (2) and subsequently amended by Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) No 724/2011 (3), (EU) No 1234/2012 (4), (EU) No 672/2013 (5), (EU) No 137/2014 (6), (EU) 2015/1296 (7), (EU) 2016/1852 (8), (EU) 2017/2178 (9), (EU) 2018/1883 (10), (EU) 2020/269 (11), (EU) 2021/1120 (12), (EU) 2022/1184 (13), (EU) 2023/1471 (14) and (EU) 2024/2413 (15).

(3) According to Article 30(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008, vessels included in the IUU vessel lists adopted by regional fisheries management organisations are to be included in the Union list.

(4) All regional fishery management organisations provide for the establishment and regular update of IUU vessel lists in accordance with their respective rules (16).

(5) According to Article 30 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008, upon the receipt from regional fisheries management organisations of the lists of fishing vessels presumed or confirmed to be involved in IUU fishing, the Commission is to update the Union list. Since the Commission has received new lists from the regional fisheries management organisations, the Union list should now be updated.

(6) Considering that the same vessel might be listed under different names and/or flags depending on the time of its inclusion on the regional fisheries management organisations lists, the updated Union list should include the different names and/or flags as established by the relevant regional fisheries management organisations.

(7) The vessel ‘YU FONG 168’ (17) was listed twice by the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (‘CCSBT’). The CCSBT has removed from its list one of these vessels on 29 July 2024, after the CCSBT Secretariat received new information enabling it to determine that the two IUU listed vessels named ‘YU FONG 168’ vessels were the same vessel (18). As the CCSBT was the only regional fisheries management organisation listing twice the vessel, the duplicate entry is no longer included in the Union List.

(8) The vessel ‘IMULA 0730 KLT/LAKPRIYA 14’ (19) has been removed from the list established by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (‘IOTC’) in April 2025. As the decision was taken by the relevant regional fisheries management organisation, the IOTC that had initially included the vessel in its IUU vessel list, under the terms of Article 30(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008, this vessel is not included in the Union list, despite the fact that it has not yet been deleted from the list established by the CCSBT, the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (‘GFCM’), the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (‘IATTC’), the International Commission for the Conservation of Altantic Tunas (‘ICCAT’), the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (‘NAFO’), the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (‘NEAFC’), and the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (‘SIOFA’).

(9) Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(10) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Part B of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 12 September 2025.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 286, 29.10.2008, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2008/1005/oj.

(2) Commission Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 of 28 May 2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 131, 29.5.2010, p. 22, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/468/oj).

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 724/2011 of 25 July 2011 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 194, 26.7.2011, p. 14, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2011/724/oj).

(4) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1234/2012 of 19 December 2012 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 350, 20.12.2012, p. 38, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2012/1234/oj).

(5) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 672/2013 of 15 July 2013 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 193, 16.7.2013, p. 6, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2013/672/oj).

(6) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 137/2014 of 12 February 2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 43, 13.2.2014, p. 47, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2014/137/oj).

(7) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1296 of 28 July 2015 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 199, 29.7.2015, p. 12, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2015/1296/oj).

(8) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1852 of 19 October 2016 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 284, 20.10.2016, p. 5, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2016/1852/oj).

(9) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2178 of 22 November 2017 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 307, 23.11.2017, p. 14, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2017/2178/oj).

(10) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1883 of 3 December 2018 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 308, 4.12.2018, p. 30, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2018/1883/oj).

(11) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/269 of 26 February 2020 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 56, 27.2.2020, p. 7, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/269/oj).

(12) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1120 of 8 July 2021 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 243, 9.7.2021, p. 18, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2021/1120/oj).

(13) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1184 of 8 July 2022 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 184, 11.7.2022, p. 9, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/1184/oj).

(14) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1471 of 17 July 2023 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L 181, 18.7.2023, p. 16, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/1471/oj).

(15) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2413 of 13 September 2024 amending Regulation (EU) No 468/2010 establishing the EU list of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (OJ L, 2024/2413, 16.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/2413/oj).

(16) Last updates of RFMOs IUU vessels lists: CCAMLR: NCP-IUU Vessel List and CP-IUU Vessel List adopted at the 43rd annual meeting, 14-25 October 2024; CCSBT: CCSBT IUU Vessel List adopted at the 31st annual meeting of the Commission, 7-10 October 2024, effective from 26 November 2024; GFCM: IUU List adopted at the 47th session of the Commission, 4-8 November 2024; IATTC: IATTC IUU Vessel List adopted at the 102nd Meeting of IATTC, 2-6 September 2024, updated on 4 April 2025; ICCAT: IUU list adopted at the 24th Special Meeting of the Commission, 9-18 November 2024; IOTC: IOTC IUU Vessels List, adopted at the 29th session of the IOTC, 13-17 April 2025; NAFO: NAFO IUU List adopted at the 46th annual meeting of NAFO, 23-27 September 2024, updated on 5 December 2024; NEAFC: IUU B list adopted at 43nd annual meeting of the NEAFC, 12-15 November 2024, updated on 28 February 2025; NPFC: NPFC IUU List adopted at the 8th annual session of the Commission, 15-18 April 2024, updated on 29 August 2024; SEAFO: SEAFO IUU Vessel List 2025 adopted at the 21st annual Commission meeting, 27-28 November 2024, adopted on 27 November 2024; SIOFA: SIOFA IUU Vessel List adopted at the 11th Meeting of the Parties, 1-5 July 2024, updated on 13 February 2025; SPRFMO: IUU Vessel List adopted at the 13th annual Commission meeting, 17-21 February 2025; WCPFC: WCPFC IUU Vessel List for 2025 adopted at the 20th regular session of the Commission, 28 November-3 December 2024, effective from 1 February 2025.

(17) ‘Unknown’ IMO ship identification number.

(18) The CCSBT Secretariat advised contracting parties of this change through CCSBT CIRCULAR #2024/31, dated 29 July 2024. Also note that the CCSBT indicates the following in its IUU vessel list: ‘ IOTC: updated beneficial owner to Jang Faa Sheng, notified 22 May 2024. Only one vessel named YU FONG 168 remains in the IOTC IUU vessel list and there is sufficient information to determine that the two previously IUU listed YU FONG 168 vessels are the same vessel. Duplicate entry removed 29 July 2024 ’. See CCSBT IUU vessel list.

(19) ‘Unknown’ IMO ship identification number.