Commission Regulation (EC) No 2103/2004 of 9 December 2004 concerning the transmission of data on certain fisheries in the western waters and the Baltic Sea
Date: 2004-12-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Baltic Sea, EU Member State, exchange of information, fishery management, fishing area, fishing regulations

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2103/2004

of 9 December 2004

concerning the transmission of data on certain fisheries in the western waters and the Baltic Sea

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 of 20
December 2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploi-
tation of
the Common Fisheries
Policy (1), and in particular Article 22(3) thereof,

resources under

fisheries

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

The maximum levels of annual fishing effort for certain
fishing areas and fisheries are fixed by Council Regulation
(EC) No 1415/2004 of 19 July 2004 (2), as provided for
by Article 11(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No
1954/2003 of 4 November 2003 (3) on the management
of
relating to certain Community
fishing areas and resources and modifying Regulation
(EC) No 2847/93 and repealing Regulations (EC) No
685/95 and (EC) No 2027/95.

the fishing effort

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2092/98 of 30
September 1998 (4)
the declaration of
concerning
relating to certain Community fishing
fishing effort
areas and resources is no longer in line with Regulations
(EC) No 1954/2003 and 1415/2004 as regards the
western waters. It is therefore necessary to redefine the
obligations relating to the fishing effort declarations for
the western waters.

The existing obligations for the fishing effort declarations
for the Baltic Sea, as laid down in Regulation (EC) No
2092/98, should remain in force.

By reason of the number and the importance of the
amendments to be made and with regard to coherence
between the new obligations for the western waters and
the existing obligations for the Baltic Sea, Regulation (EC)
No 2092/98 should be repealed.

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

(1) OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 59.
(2) OJ L 258, 5.8.2004, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 289, 7.11.2003, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 266, 1.10.1998, p. 47.

CHAPTER I

WESTERN WATERS

Article 1

Lists of vessels with special fishing permit

1. Member States shall transmit to the Commission, within
30 days from the date of entry into force of this Regulation, an
updated version of the list of vessels referred to in Article 7 of
Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003 using the reporting format set
out in Annex I to this Regulation.

In accordance with Article 10(2) of Council Regulation
2.
(EC) 1954/2003 and Article 19(f) of Regulation (EC)
2847/1993 (5), amendments to the information contained in
Annex I will be reported to the Commission on a daily basis
by sending the complete updated Annex I at the time a special
fishing permit as referred to in Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC)
1954/2003 is issued or withdrawn.

Article 2

Fishing effort

1. Member States shall
to the Commission the
transmit
aggregated data on fishing effort, exerted by the vessels
referred to in Article 1 in the previous month, before the
15th of each month using the reporting format set out in
Annex II to this Regulation.

For the first fishing effort declaration, the reference period

2.
for the aggregated data shall start on 1 January 2004.

CHAPTER II

THE BALTIC SEA

Article 3

Lists of vessels with special fishing permit

1. Member States shall transmit to the Commission the list
of vessels, referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No
779/97, using the reporting format set out in Annex III to
this Regulation.

Amendments to the lists of vessels shall be reported to the
2.
Commission, using the same reporting format, at the latest four
working days before the date of entry of vessels into the fishing
area.

(5) OJ L 261, 20.10.1993, p. 1.

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Article 4

Fishing effort

Member States shall transmit to the Commission the aggregated
data on fishing effort, referred to in the second and third indent
of Article 19(i) of Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93, in accordance
with Annex IV to this Regulation.

CHAPTER III

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 5

For the list of vessels referred to in Article 1 and the
3.
fishing effort declarations referred to in Article 2, the Fisheries
Data Exchange System shall be adapted by the Commission by
1 July 2005, at the latest.

Until that date, the data referred to in Articles 1 and 2 shall be
communicated by the Member States to the Commission in
spreadsheet format by sending it to the appropriate mailbox
address which shall be communicated to the Member States
by the Commission.

Article 6

Repeal

Transfer of data and access to data

1.

Regulation (EC) No 2092/98 is repealed.

1. Member States shall communicate the data referred in
Articles 1 to 4 to the Commission through the Fisheries Data
Exchange System (or any future data system decided by the
Commission).

The Commission shall make the data regarding the
2.
updated lists of vessels available through the Fisheries Data
Exchange System (or any future data system decided by the
Commission).

References made to the repealed Regulation shall be

2.
construed as references to this Regulation.

Article 7

Entry into force

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

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

Done at Brussels, 9 December 2004.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

LIST OF VESSELS WITH SPECIAL FISHING PERMIT — WESTERN WATERS

Reporting format

Country

Species

CFR

External
marking

ICES
V-VI

ICES
VII

ICES
VIII

ICES
IX

ICES
X

CECAF
34.1.1

CECAF
34.1.2

CECAF
34.2.0

Biologically sensitive area
Regulation (EC)
No 1954/2003 Article 6

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(5)

Data format

Name of zone

Maximum number
of characters/digits

Alignment (*)
L(eft)/R(ight)

Definition and comments

(1) Country

(2) Species

(3) CFR

(4) External marking

(5) Area

3

1

12

14

1

—

—

—

L
—

in which
is registered for fishing under Council

Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code)
vessel
Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002.

Always the reporting country.

One of the target species covered by Regulation
(EC) No 1954/2003 using one of the following
codes:

D: demersal species excluding those covered by

Regulation (EC) No 2347/2002
scallops

S:
C: edible crab and spider crab

(Community Fleet Register Number).

Unique
vessel.

identification number of

a

fishing

Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code) followed by
an identifying series (nine characters). Where a
series has fewer than nine characters additional
zeros must be inserted on the left-hand side.

Under Regulation (EEC) No 1381/87.

Indicate if the vessel has a special fishing permit
for this area as defined by Article 8(3) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1954/2003.

Y (Yes)/N (No)

(*) Relevant information for transmission of data by fixed-length formatting.

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ANNEX II

FISHING EFFORT — WESTERN WATERS

Reporting format

Country

Species

Area

Year

Month

Declaration (a)

Cumulative
Declaration

Yearly Allocation (b)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(a) and (b): Data only to be transmitted until 1 July 2005 in the spreadsheet format mentioned under Article 5 of this Regulation. After

1 July 2005 these data will be provided by the Fisheries Data Exchange System.

Data format

Name of zone

Maximum number of
characters/digits

Alignmen (*)
L(eft)/R(ight)

Definition and comments

(1) Country

(2) Species

(3) Area

(4) Year

(5) Month

(6) Declaration

(7) Cumulative
Declaration

3

1

12

4

2

13

13

(8) Yearly allocation

13

—

—

L

—

—

R

R

R

(*) Relevant information for transmission of data by fixed-length formatting.

in which
is registered for fishing under Council

Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code)
vessel
Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002.
Always the reporting country

One of the target species covered by Regulation
(EC) No 1954/2003 using one of the following
codes:

D: demersal species excluding those covered

by Regulation (EEC) No 2347/2002
scallops

S:
C: edible crab and spider crab

One of the target areas covered by Regulation
(EC) 1954/2003 using one of
the following
codes: ICES V-VI, ICES VII, ICES VIII, ICES IX,
ICES X, CECAF 34.1.1, CECAF 34.1.2, CECAF
34.2.0, and BSA (for biologically sensitive area
as defined by Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No
1954/2003)

The year of
declaration is done

the month (5)

for which the

Month for which the fishing effort declaration
is done (expressed by two digits between 1 and
12)

in accordance with
Fishing effort declaration,
Article 3 and Annex I, footnote 1, of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1415/2004,
the month
mentioned under (5)

for

(1)

effort,

fishing

amount of

in
Cumulative
accordance with Article 3 and Annex I
No
footnote
1415/2004,
year
mentioned under (4) from the first of January
the month mentioned
the
until
under (5)

Regulation
during

of
deployed

(EC)
the

end of

Maximum level of annual fishing effort for the
species under (2) and the area under (3) as
defined in the Annexes I and II to Regulation
(EC) No 1415/2004

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ANNEX III

LIST OF VESSELS BY FISHERY — BALTIC SEA

Definition of the data to be communicated and description of a record

Name of the zone

Width

Alignment

Definition and remarks

Updating indicator

Declaring entity

Fishery

3

3

5

—

—

L

Code identifying type of declaration (see Table 1)

Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code) making the declaration

fishery (see Table 2) made up of

Code of
components:
— type of gear (see Table 3) — two characters
— type of target species (see Table 4) — one character
— code of ICES area, two characters:
subdivisions 22 to 32 = area No 5
subdivisions 30 and 31 = area No 51

three

CFR (Internal number)

12

L

(Community Fleet Register Number).
Unique identification number of a fishing vessel.
Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code) followed by an iden-
tifying series (nine characters). Where a series has fewer
than nine characters additional zeros must be inserted on
the left hand side

Name of vessel

Date of event

40

8

L

—

Date (YYYYMMDD) when event occurred

Table 1

Codes for updating indicator

Addition of vessel to list

Deletion of vessel from list

Cancellation of incorrect declaration

ADD

SUP

CAN

Codes for fisheries in the Baltic sea — Regulation (EC) No 779/97

Table 2

Gear

Target species

Effort areas

Towed gear

Demersal species

Subdivisions 22 to 32

Static gear and driftnets

Demersal species

Subdivisions 22 to 32

All gears

All gears

Pelagic species
sprat)

(herring,

Subdivisions 22 to 32

of which

Subdivisions 30 and 31

AGH51

Salmon,
freshwater fish

sea

trout

and

Subdivisions 22 to 32

AGS5

Code

TGD5

DGD5

AGH5

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Towed gear

Static gear and driftnets

All gears

Table 3

Codes for groups of fishing gear by fishery

Type of gear

Table 4

Codes for target species or groups of target species

Species

Demersal species

Pelagic species

Pelagic species (herring and sprat)

Salmon, sea trout and fresh water fish

Code

TG

DG

AG

Code

D

P

H

S

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ANNEX IV

FISHING EFFORT — BALTIC SEA

Definition of the data to be communicated and description of a record

Aggregated declarations by fishery

Name of the zone

Width

Alignment

Definition and remarks

Updating indicator

Declaring entity

Fishery

Year of observation

First month

Last month

Effort/power

Filler

3

3

5

4

2

2

14

14

—

—

L

—

—

—

R

—

Code identifying type of declaration (see Table 1).

Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code) making the declaration.

Code of fishery (see Table 2) in which activity has taken
place.

Year (YYYY) during which the vessel is observed.

First month (MM) of observation period.

Last month (MM) of observation period.

Number of kW (as a whole number) multiplied by the
number of days present in the area (as a whole number)
to express fishing effort during the observation period (*)

(*) Calculated as Σ(i=1,n)aiPi where n is the number of vessels in the area, ai is the number of days spent at sea by the vessel in the area

during the observation period and Pi is the average power of the vessel in the area during the period of observation.

Table 1

Codes for the updating indicator

Declaration by fishery

Deletion of declaration by fishery

FIS

DFI

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Table 2

Gear

Target species

Effort areas

Towed gear

Demersal species

Subdivisions 22 to 32

Static gear and driftnets

Demersal species

Subdivisions 22 to 32

All gears

All gears

Pelagic species (herring,
sprat)

Subdivisions 22 to 32

of which

Subdivisions 30 and 31

AGH51

Salmon, sea trout and
freshwater fish

Subdivisions 22 to 32

AGS5

Code

TGD5

DGD5

AGH5