The purpose of the contract is the chartering of a vessel by EFCA. The vessel will be deployed primarily as a fisheries patrol vessel, i.e. a platform from which the monitoring, boarding and inspection of fishing vessels and related support and transport vessels will be conducted in international, EU and third country waters by authorised fisheries inspectors. Such activities will always be coordinated by an official of EFCA on board of the vessel.

In view of possible multipurpose operations in the framework of European cooperation on coastguard functions, the vessel may also be deployed for operations other than fisheries inspection and control.

In particular, multipurpose operations may consist of providing assistance and support during search and rescue situations, disrupting trafficking routes, detecting criminal activities and ensuring the enforcement of other EU and national legislations.

Chartering of a fisheries patrol vessel. The charter will take the form of specific contracts in execution of the framework contract. The framework contract is based on the BIMCO ‘Supplytime 2017’ uniform time charter with the appropriate modification, addition or deletion of clauses to take into account the vessel's role as a fisheries patrol vessel and/or the possible multipurpose character of the tasks that may be required to be performed from time to time during the hire period.