Challenge 09:
Skills, knowledge, and technology for all
Ensure comprehensive capacity development and equitable access to data, information, knowledge and technology across all aspects of ocean science and for all stakeholders.
This Regulation aims to ensure traceability of fishery products obtained from legal means in all stages of supply chain, establish a harmonized mandatory procedures on catch certification for export of fishery products, ensure compliance with applicable domestic laws, and update and revise the procedures on catch certifications scheme, and to ensure continued global market access of Philippine fish and fishery products. The text further provides for regular catch certificate, processing statement and non-processing statement, simplified catch certificate, record-keeping, monitoring and payment of fees, and settlement of issues. This Order shall apply to all foreign or Philippine-flagged fishing vessels that supply raw materials to canneries, processors or exporters for processing prior to the export of the processed fishery products. The text contains 30 Articles and has 12 Annexes.
