3.1-The industry must submit to the Technical Directorate General (Dirección General Técnica) of INCOPESCA a copy of the agreement or contract, compliant with legal formalities and signed with the vessel's shipowner (armador), stipulating their commitment to make available to the company belonging to the tuna industry with which they have signed the agreement 100% of the tuna catch made under the fishing license granted to operate in the EEZ of the Pacific Ocean of Costa Rica.
3.2-The Technical Directorate General shall issue, within a period not exceeding 3 business days, the conforming official note to the Protection and Registration Department for the issuance of the fishing license for the referred tuna vessel, to be signed by the Executive President of INCOPESCA.
3.3-The vessel shall only be released from the obligation to land in Costa Rica the tuna catch made in Costa Rican waters under the following circumstances, duly verified:
A-That the vessel suffers a major and verified breakdown that forces it to be towed to a port of another OPO coastal country.
B-That as a result of analyses carried out on the fish upon arrival at Puerto Caldera, a sanitary problem (e.g., histamine levels) is determined that prevents, due to sanitary regulations, the industrialization of the tuna for human consumption.
C-For reasons of storage space in the industry's cold storage, duly verified, or any other cause that, with due technical basis, establishes that the industry cannot receive the product.
3.4-Upon due verification, the Technical Director General, within a period not exceeding 24 hours, must issue the authorization for the vessel to dispose of the catch not landed in Costa Rica and to set sail.
3.5-The Technical Director General of INCOPESCA shall keep an updated control of the tuna caught in the jurisdictional waters of Costa Rica, such that before issuing authorization for a license, it ensures that the total caught by each vessel, whether used by the industry or not, does not exceed the authorized catch limit.
3.6-The Technical Director General, for control and counting purposes, must use the data contained in the IATTC forms called "Tuna Follow-up Record," RSA (Registro Seguimiento del Atún), which the CIAT Observer must deliver at the vessel's port of landing to the designated authority.
3.7.- The landed tuna product obtained must be offloaded only at Costa Rican docks duly authorized for that purpose. Under no circumstances may the product caught in the Costa Rican Exclusive Economic Zone be landed in another country and introduced via land or air borders, except in situations of duly proven unforeseen circumstances or force majeure, in which case it shall be the responsibility of both the industry and the shipowner to demonstrate such a situation.
3.8.- Prior to landing, the industry that entered into the contract for the granting of the fishing license must indicate to INCOPESCA that it has the capacity to store the entirety of the tuna product from the vessel with a fishing license granted by INCOPESCA.
3.9.- In the event of contractual non-compliance by the shipowner with the national processing industry, upon verification of due process, the annual registration that authorizes the vessel to continue obtaining licenses in our Exclusive Economic Zone shall be canceled, whereby it will lose its right to the granting of the free extension of the fishing license.
3.10.- Once the landing of the totality of the fishery product caught during the validity of the fishing license is completed, the processing industry must inform INCOPESCA, at the Technical Directorate General, of the totality of the product obtained from catches made in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Costa Rica, so that they are deducted from the annual quota allowed by INCOPESCA.
3.11.- The vessel that has a fishing license granted to operate in the Exclusive Economic Zone may not carry out any docking or landing operations in non-Costa Rican ports, from the moment the license is issued until the moment of landing in national ports. Any situation that forces it to dock in a port of another country during the validity of the fishing license must be reported within a period not exceeding 48 hours after the event occurred, to INCOPESCA. If it has catches made outside the Exclusive Economic Zone during the validity of the fishing license granted by INCOPESCA, in zones where Costa Rica has rights in accordance with what is established in International Law, these must be reported to INCOPESCA and landed in Costa Rican ports for the industry with which it signed the agreement for the granting of the fishing license, these catches not being considered as part of the quota allowed for the exclusive economic zone of Costa Rica.
3.12.- The national processing industry may not export whole, unprocessed tuna that has been acquired through a fishing license granted to foreign-flagged vessels.
3.13.- INCOPESCA shall not authorize licenses for those vessels that are related to national processing industries that are inactive or do not have the industrial capacity to store and process the tuna product caught in our Exclusive Economic Zone.