Commission Regulation (EC) No 2259/2004 of 28 December 2004 fixing the Community selling prices for the fishery products listed in Annex II to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 for the 2005 fishing year
Date: 2004-12-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fishery product, selling price, withdrawal price

30.12.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 389/13

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2259/2004

of 28 December 2004

fixing the Community selling prices for the fishery products listed in Annex II to Council
Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 for the 2005 fishing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

listed in Annex II

A Community selling price is to be fixed for each of the
to Regulation (EC) No
products
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 (2), fixes the guide prices for the 2005
fishing year for all the products concerned.

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

Conversion factors should therefore be fixed for the
frozen products
different species and presentations of

level

landed in the Community in order to determine the
price
intervention measure
provided for in Article 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No
104/2000.

trigger

that

the

(5)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Community selling prices applicable during the 2005
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

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 December 2004.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.
(2) Not yet published in the Official Journal.

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ANNEX

SELLING PRICES AND CONVERSION FACTORS

Species

Presentation

Conversion
factor

Intervention
level

Selling price
(EUR/t)

Greenland
hippoglossoides)

halibut

(Reinhardtius

Whole or gutted, with or without
head

Hake (Merluccius spp.)

Whole or gutted, with or without
head

Individual fillets

— with skin
— skinless

Sea-bream (Dendex
Pagellus spp.)

dentex

and

Whole or gutted, with or without
head

Swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

Whole or gutted, with or without
head

Shrimps and prawns Penaeidae

Frozen

(a) Parapenaeus Longirostris

(b) Other Penaeidae

Cuttlefishes (Sepia officinalis, Rossia
macrosoma and Sepiola rondeletti)

Frozen

Squid (Loligo spp.)

(a) Loligo patagonica

(b) Loligo vulgaris

— whole, not cleaned
— cleaned

— whole, not cleaned
— cleaned

Octopus (Octopus spp.)

Frozen

Illex argentinus

— whole, not cleaned
— tube

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

Forms of commercial presentation:

— whole, not cleaned: product which has not undergone any treatment
— cleaned:
— tube:

product which has at least been gutted
squid body which has at least been gutted and had the head removed.

0,85

1 663

0,85

1 053

0,85

0,85

0,85

1 274

1 402

1 362

0,85

3 416

0,85

0,85

0,85

0,85

0,85

0,85

0,85

0,85

0,80

0,80

3 396

6 852

1 654

993

1 191

2 482

2 879

1 819

689

1 171