The port of Ceuta may provide port services to third-country fishing vessels. This authorisation is the novelty of the updating of the list of ports designated for landing and transhipment operations for fishery products and for the provision of port services for third-country fishing vessels approved today by the Council of Ministers.
This designation as an authorized port for fisheries services is one of the measures included in the Integral Plan of Socioeconomic Development of the City of Ceuta, elaborated by the Ministry of Territorial Policy, within the framework of the Plan of Recovery, Transformation and Resilience (PRTR), which was approved by agreement of the Council of Ministers in October 2022, in order to lay the foundations for the economic and social development of the autonomous city.
The agreement adopted today in the Council of Ministers consolidates and replaces the three precedents on the designation of ports, published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) through resolutions in the years 2009, 2010 and 2020. The initial list published in 2009, which included 23 ports, was subsequently expanded in 2010 and 2020, to a total of 29 to date, and indicates the activities allowed in each of them separately.
The amendment approved by the Council of Ministers has constituted an opportunity, in addition to including the port of Ceuta as a new addition, to unify and precisely define, in a single resolution, the operations authorized in each of the ports included in previous agreements. This relationship has been reflected in an annex that includes both the updated list of 30 designated ports and the operations that may be authorized in each of them.