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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 163/89
of 24 January 1989
concerning the fishing vessel register of the Community
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4028/86 of 18 December 1986 on Community measures to improve and adapt structures in the fisheries and aquaculture sector (1), and in particular Article 5 thereof,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2930/86 (2) defines the characteristics for fishing vessels;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1381/87 (3) establishes detailed rules concerning the marking and documentation of fishing vessels;
Whereas it is necessary to determine the information required for the preparation of the fishing vessels register of the Community;
Whereas the number of vessels registered in the Member States is such that provision must be made for a data processing medium to facilitate the management of all the information;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Fishing Industry,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
For the purposes of this Regulation, 'fishing vessel' means any vessel intended for the catching for sale of fish and other living marine resources. These fishing vessels will be registered as such in the Member States' registers.
Article 2
For all fishing vessels registered in the Member States on 1 January 1989, Member States shall send the Commission, by 30 September 1989 at the latest, except in particular cases duly justified and with the Commission's prior authorization, the information set out in Annex I. On the basis of the information presented concerning the situation of the fishing fleet on 1 January 1989, Member States shall prepare and present to the Commission, before 1 November 1989, as accurate an estimate as possible of the situation on 1 January 1987.
Article 3
For any new registration or removal from the national register of a fishing vessel and for any change in a characteristic of a vessel included in the fishing vessels register of the Community, Member States shall send the Commission each month the information set out in Annex II. This information shall be transmitted at the latest three months after the new registration, removal or change has been officially established by the Member State.
Article 4
Corrections to false or incorrect information contained in the fishing vessels register of the Community shall be sent to the Commission within one month following the finding in accordance with the procedure set out in Annex II.
Article 5
1. The information referred to in Article 2 shall be transmitted on a data processing medium as defined in Annex III.
2. New registrations, removals from the national register of fishing vessels, changes and corrections as referred to in Articles 3 and 4 shall be transmitted on a data processing medium as defined in Annex III.
3. The Commission after consulting the Standing Committee on the Fishing Industry may adapt Annex III where technical difficulties are encountered in implementing the management information system in relation to the register.
Article 6
The Commission shall ensure that individual items of information contained in the fishing vessels register of the Community remain secret and shall guarantee each Member State access, as quickly as the data processing system installed permits, to all the information contained in the register concerning fishing vessels registered in that Member State only.
Article 7
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 24 January 1989.