Commission Regulation (EC) No 2431/98 of 11 November 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 2211/94 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 as regards the notification of the prices of imported fishery products
Date: 1998-11-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, exchange of information, fishery product, import price

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2431/98

of 11 November 1998

amending Regulation (EC) No 2211/94 laying down detailed rules for the imple-
mentation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 as regards the notification of
the prices of imported fishery products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92
of 17 December 1992 on the common organisation of the
in fishery and aquaculture products (1), as last
market
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3318/94 (2), and in
particular Articles 22 and 23 thereof,

Whereas the arrangements for rapid and reliable trans-
mission of
the data needed to monitor the reference
prices must be laid down;

Whereas the list of representative markets and ports
where imports are recorded must be updated to take
better account of the actual import volumes;

Whereas the data sent by fax to the Commission are
generated electronically; whereas the national administra-
tions responsible for collecting and transmitting these
computerised data have the technology to send them by
electronic mail; whereas, therefore, this form of transmis-
sion should be definitively introduced and the message
format should be defined; whereas Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 2211/94 (3) should be amended to this end;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Fishery Products,

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2211/94 is hereby amended as
follows:

1. Article 2(1) is replaced by the following:

‘1.
The Member States shall notify to the Commis-
sion the free-at-frontier prices of those goods listed in
Annexes I, II, III, IV and V to Regulation (EEC) No
3759/92 for which a reference price is fixed and which
are released into free circulation. This information
shall be broken down by species and product, category
and commercial presentation, as well as by day of
presentation of the import declaration.';

2. Article 2(4) is replaced by the following:

‘4.
The notification shall be sent before the 25th day
of each month or the first working day thereafter for
goods released into free circulation between the first
and the 15th day of the month, and the 10th day of
the following month or the first working day thereafter
for goods released into free circulation between the
16th and the last day of the month. The notification
shall be sent to the Commission by electronic mail in
the form indicated in Annex II.';

3. the Annex is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1999.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 11 November 1998.

For the Commission

Emma BONINO

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 350, 31. 12. 1994, p. 15.
(3) OJ L 238, 13. 9. 1994, p. 1.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

Representative markets and ports of importation

BELGIUM

DENMARK

Oostende
Zeebrugge
Antwerpen

Hirtshals
Skagen
Neksø
Hanstholm

GERMANY

All customs offices involved in the release of goods into free circulation

GREECE

SPAIN

FRANCE

IRELAND

ITALY

Athinai
Kavala
Piraeus
Thessaloniki
H(cid:136)raklion
Ioannina
Patras

La Coru(cid:157)a
Vigo
Mar(cid:146)n
Barcelona
Ir(cid:156)n
Bilbao
Madrid
Valencia
Alicante
Algeciras
C(cid:145)diz
La Junquera
Las Palmas

Bayonne
Bordeaux
Boulogne-sur-Mer
F(cid:130)camp
La Rochelle-Rochefort
Le Havre
Lorient
Marseille
A(cid:130)roport de Roissy
March(cid:130) d’int(cid:130)r(cid:136)t national de Rungis
Saint-Denis-de-la-R(cid:130)union
Saint-Malo

Dublin
Killybegs

Genova
Livorno
Salerno
La Spezia
Ancona
Fortezza
Bari
Roma 1o centrale
Palermo

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NETHERLANDS

PORTUGAL

Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Scheveningen

Mainland
Viana do Castelo
Porto
Aveiro
Peniche
Lisboa
Portim(cid:209)o
Olh(cid:209)o
Autonomous region of Madeira
Funchal
Autonomous region of the Azores
Horta (ilha do Faial)
Praia da Vit(cid:155)ria (ilha Terceira)
Ponta Delgada (ilha de S. Miguel)

UNITED KINGDOM

FINLAND

SWEDEN

Grimsby
Aberdeen
Hull
Peterhead

Helsinki
Tornio
Turku

Svinesund
Karlskrona

LUXEMBOURG

All customs offices involved in the release of goods into free circulation

AUSTRIA

All customs offices involved in the release of goods into free circulation

1. Data format

ANNEX II

Registration
No

Data involved

Identification
of the type
of data

Format

Size

Code

1st

2nd

3rd

Message identification

:TTL; character

Member State

:RMS; character

Date of the first day of the
period in question

:RPP; date

DDMMYYYY

4th et seq. — Date of importation

:DAT; date

— Country

of
ment (not obligatory)

consign-

— Country of origin

— Species

— Combined Nomencla-
ture and TARIC codes

DDMMYYYY

numeric

numeric

character

character

4

3

8

8

3

3

3

12

2211

Table 1

(1)

(1)

Table 7

TARIC
Codes (2)

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Registration
No

Data involved

Identification
of the type
of data

Format

Size

Code

— Freshness

— Size

— Presentation

— Conservation

— Value

— Currency code

— Quantity (kg)

character

character

character

character

3

3

3

3

Table 2

Table 3

Table 4

Table 5

Actual number (4)

15.4

(3)

character

3

Table 6

Actual number (4)

15.4

(1) Country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States

(Commission Regulation (EC) No 895/97 (OJ L 128, 21. 5. 1997, p. 1)).

(2) Integrated Tariff of the European Communities (TARIC)
(3) Value in national currency.
(4) 10 figures in front of the decimal point, a decimal point as separator and four figures after the decimal point. The total

( OJ C 102 and C 102A, 1. 4. 1997).

length of the field is 15 positions.

2. Message format

The file is a text file made up of four separate records:

— each item of data is separated from the following item by a semi-colon,
— each message line is followed by a carriage return.

It looks as follows:

:TTL;2211
:RMS;C(3)
:RPP;DDMMYYYY
:DAT;DDMMYYYY; N(3); N(3); C(3); C(12); C(3); C(3); C(3); C(3); N(15.4); C(3); N(15.4)
:DAT;DDMMYYYY; N(3); N(3); C(3); C(12); C(3); C(3); C(3); C(3); N(15.4); C(3); N(15.4)
:DAT;DDMMYYYY; N(3); N(3); C(3); C(12); C(3); C(3); C(3); C(3); N(15.4); C(3); N(15.4)
. . . . . .

3. Codes

Table 1. Member State codes

Member State

Austria

Belgium

Germany

Denmark

Spain

Finland

France

United Kingdom

Greece

Ireland

Italy

Code

AUT

BEL

DEU

DNK

ESP

FIN

FRA

GBR

GRC

IRL

ITA

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Code

LUX

NLD

PRT

SWE

Code

V

A

B

E

Member State

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Portugal

Sweden

Table 2. “Freshness” codes

Freshness

E (live)

A (quality A)

B (quality B)

Extra (quality extra)

NA

Not applicable

Table 3. Size codes

Code

Size

1

2

3

4

5

6

B21

B27

M10

M11

M13

P08

P10

P21

P27

NA

Size 1

Size 2

Size 3

Size 4

Size 5

Size 6

= 1,1 kg : 2,1 kg

= 1,33 kg : 2,7 kg

< 10 kg

: 1,1 kg

: 1,33 kg

= 800 g

; 10 kg

= 2,1 kg

= 2,7 kg

Not applicable

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Table 4. Presentation codes

Code

Presentation

1

2

3

5

9

11

12

21

22

23

24

25

26

31

32

51

61

62

63

70

71

72

Code

F

V

R

C

CU

S

FC

FR

Whole

Fillets

Gutted with head

Pieces and other flesh

Acceptable presentations other than whole or gutted, with gills

With or without head

Head off or tail

Standard fillets, with bones

Boneless fillets

Fillets, with skin

Fillets, without skin

Sides

Fillets in minced blocks :4 kg

Gilled and gutted

Gutted and without head

Minced blocks

Cleaned

Cylinders

Tubes

Cleaned, with head or whole

All acceptable presentations for this species

All acceptable presentations other than fillets, pieces and other flesh

Table 5. Conservation codes

Presentation

Fresh

Live

Chilled

Frozen

Cooked in water

Salted

Fresh or frozen

Fresh or chilled

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Table 6. Currency codes

Currency

Belgian franc

Danish krone

German mark

Greek drachma

Euros

Portuguese escudo

French franc

Finnish mark

Dutch guilder

Irish pound

Italian lira

Austrian schilling

Spanish peseta

Swedish crown

Pound sterling

Luxembourg franc

Table 7. Inter-institutional species codes

Species

Clupea harengus

Sardina pilchardus

Squalus acanthias

Scyliorhinus spp.

Sebastes spp.

Gadus morhua

Pollachius virens

Melanogrammus aeglefinus

Merlangius merlangus

Molva spp.

Scomber scombrus

Scomber japonicus

Engraulis spp.

Pleuronectes platessa

Code

BEF

DKK

DEM

GRD

EUR

PTE

FRF

FIM

NLG

IEP

ITL

ATS

ESP

SEK

GBP

LUF

Code

HER

PIL

DGS

SCL

RED

COD

POK

HAD

WHG

LNZ

MAC

MAS

ENR

PLE

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Code

HKE

LEZ

BRA

MNZ

CSH

CRE

NEP

DAB

FLE

ALB

ROA

CTC

SOO

PRA

GHL

DEC

PAX

HKX

HKP

DPS

PEN

SQN

SQR

SQL

SQO

SQC

SQA

SQE

SQI

SQE

ILL

CTR

OCZ

YFT

Species

Merluccius merluccius

Lepidorhombus spp.

Brama spp.

Lophius spp.

Crangon crangon

Cancer pagurus

Nephrops norvegicus

Limanda limanda

Platichthys flesus

Thunnus alalunga

Rossia macrosoma

Sepia officinalis

Solea spp.

Pandalus borealis

Rheinhardtius hippoglossoides

Dentex dentex

Pagellus spp.

Merluccius spp.

Merluccius hubbsi

Parapenaeus longirostris

Penaeus spp.

Loligo patagonica

Loligo vulgaris

Loligo pealei

Loligo opalescens

Loligo spp.

Illex argentinus

Ommastrephes sagittatus

Illex illecebrosus

Todarodes sagittatus sagittatus

Illex spp.

Sepiola rondeleti

Octopus spp.

Thunnus albacares

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Code

SKJ

TUS

FCP

SAL

GRC

CDZ

POC

MAZ

ALK

SWO

PCO

Species

Katsuwonus pelamis

Thunnus spp. and Euthynnus spp. excluding Thunnus thunnus and T. obesus

Cyprinus carpio

Salmo salar

Gadus ogac

Gadus spp.

Boreogadus saida

Scomber scombrus, japonicus, Orcynopsis unicolor

Theragra chalcogramma

Xiphias gladius

Gadus marocephalus'