Commission Regulation (EC) No 426/2004 of 4 March 2004 fixing the Community selling prices for the fishery products listed in Annex II to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 for the 2004 fishing year
Date: 2004-03-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fishery product, selling price

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 426/2004

of 4 March 2004

fixing the Community selling prices for the fishery products listed in Annex II to Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 104/2000 for the 2004 fishing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17
December 1999 on the common organisation of the markets
in fishery and aquaculture products (1), and in particular Article
25(1) and (6) thereof,

(4)

(5)

Conversion factors should therefore be fixed for the
different species and presentations of frozen products
landed in the Community in order to determine the
price level that trigger the intervention measure provided
for in Article 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000.

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

A Community selling price is to be fixed for each of the
products listed in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 104/
2000 before the beginning of the fishing year, at a level
at least equal to 70 % and not exceeding 90 % of the
guide price.

Council Regulation (EC) No 2326/2003 (2)
guide prices for the 2004 fishing year
products concerned.

fixes the
the

for all

Article 1

The Community selling prices applicable during the 2004
fishing year for the products listed in Annex II to Regulation
(EC) No 104/2000 and the presentations and conversion
factors to which they relate are set out in the Annex to this
Regulation.

Article 2

Market prices vary considerably depending on the
species and how the products are presented, particularly
in the case of squid and hake.

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 March 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.
(2) OJ L 345, 31.12.2003, p. 27.

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ANNEX

Selling prices and conversion factors

Species

Presentation

Conversion
factor

Intervention
level

Selling price
(EUR/tonne)

Greenland halibut
(Reinhardtius hippoglossoides)

Whole, with or without head

Hake
(Merluccius spp.)

Whole, with or without head

Individual fillets
— with skin
— skinless

Sea bream
(Dentex dentex and Pagellus spp.)

Whole, with or without head

Swordfish
(Xiphias gladius)

Shrimps and prawns
Penaeidae
(a) Parapenaeus Longirostris
(b) Other Penaeidae

Cuttlefish
(Sepia officinalis,
Rossia macrosoma and
Sepiola rondeletti)

Squid
(Loligo spp.)
(a) Loligo patagonica

(b) Loligo vulgaris

Octopus
(Octopus spp.)

Illex argentinus

Whole, with or without head

Frozen

Frozen

— whole, not cleaned
— cleaned
— whole, not cleaned
— cleaned

Frozen

— whole, not cleaned
— tube

Forms of commercial presentation:
— whole, not cleaned: product which has not undergone any treatment,
— cleaned: product which has at least been gutted,
— tube: squid body which has at least been gutted and had the head removed.

1,0

1,0

1,0
1,1

1,0

1,0

1,0
1,0

1,0

1,00
1,20
2,50
2,90

1,00

1,00
1,70

0,85

0,85

0,85
0,85

0,85

0,85

0,85
0,85

0,85

0,85
0,85
0,85
0,85

0,85

0,80
0,80

1 663

1 069

1 274
1 402

1 348

3 416

3 430
6 921

1 705

993
1 191
2 482
2 879

1 801

678
1 153