Commission Regulation (EC) No 839/2002 of 21 May 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 2090/98 concerning the fishing vessel register of the Community
Date: 2002-05-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: census, data collection, data processing, fishery resources, fishing fleet, fishing vessel

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 839/2002

of 21 May 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 2090/98 concerning the fishing vessel register of the Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92 of 20
December 1992 establishing a Community system for fisheries
and aquaculture (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1181/98 (2), and in particular Article 13 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

For the purposes of the common fisheries policy, an
up-to-date reference database should be maintained on
the characteristics of vessels in the Community fishing
fleet, constituting the Community fishing vessel register
provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2090/98 (3).

The Member States must monitor the quality of the data
transmitted to the Commission for input to this data-
base.

The information on fishing licences issued in accordance
with Council Regulation (EC) No 3690/93 of 20
December 1993 establishing a Community system
laying down rules for the minimum information to be
contained in fishing licences (4) should be integrated into
the database.

The database must contain the information required
under bilateral
agreements between the
Community and third countries.

fisheries

Additional information must also be inserted into the
database so as to comply with the Community's inter-
national obligations with respect to exchanges of data
with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of
the
United Nations in accordance with Council Decision
96/428/EC of 25 June 1996 on acceptance by the
Community of the Agreement to promote compliance
with international conservation and management meas-
ures by fishing vessels on the high seas (5).

Regulation (EC) No 2090/98 should therefore be
amended.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,

(1) OJ L 389, 31.12.1992, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 164, 9.6.1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 266, 1.10.1998, p. 27.
(4) OJ L 341, 31.12.1993, p. 93.
(5) OJ L 177, 16.7.1996, p. 24.

Regulation (EC) No 2090/98 is hereby amended as follows:

1. The following Article 3a is inserted:

‘Article 3a

The information defined in Annex I by Regulation (EC) No
839 must be supplied to the Commission no later than 31
December 2002 in the case of vessels with a fishing licence
whose overall length is 15 metres or more or whose length
between perpendiculars is 12 metres or more.

For vessels with a fishing licence whose overall length is
under 15 metres or whose length between perpendiculars is
under 12 metres, the deadline for transmission of the infor-
mation shall be 31 December 2003 at the latest.’

2. Article 5 is replaced by the following text:

‘Article 5

The Commission shall record the information on fishing
vessels communicated by the Member States in accordance
with this Regulation in the database constituting the
register, subject to its conformity with the Annexes to this
Regulation.

The Member States shall have access to the register data
concerning their own fleet.’

3. The following Article 5a is inserted:

‘Article 5a

A vessel shall be identified in a unique way by means of its
internal number defined in Annex I to this Regulation.

This number shall be allocated definitively when the vessel
is first registered in a national register. Subsequently, it shall
neither be modified nor reallocated even if the vessel
is
transferred from or to another Member State, destroyed,
withdrawn from fishing or reassigned.’

4. Annexes I to V are amended in accordance with the Annex

to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 May 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

The Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 2090/98 are amended as follows:

1. In Annex I, the following text is added to the Table entitled ‘Definition of the data to be communicated and description

of a record’:

2. The following text is added to Annex II:

3. The following text is added to Annex III:

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4. The following text is added to Annex IV:

5. The following text is added to Annex V: