Commission Regulation (EC) No 1799/2006 of 6 December 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 on the Community fishing fleet register
Date: 2006-12-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU statistics, control of State aid, disclosure of information, fishing fleet, fishing net, fishing statistics

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1799/2006

of 6 December 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 on the Community fishing fleet register

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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-
the Common Fisheries
resources under
tation of
Policy (1), and in particular Article 15(3) and (4) thereof,

fisheries

Whereas:

Commission Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 of 30
December 2003 on the Community
fleet
inter alia, the dates of fleet census, the
register (2) fixes,
codes for fishing gear and the codes for public aid.

fishing

It is necessary to fix the dates of the census for the new
Member States that will accede to the European Union so
they can comply with the provisions of Regulation (EC)
No 26/2004.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

In order to monitor the application of Article 25(3) and
(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1198/2006 of 27 July
2006 on the European Fisheries Fund (3) it is necessary to
introduce new codes for communicating the replacement
of engines with public aid.

Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I
accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

to Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 is amended in

Article 2

In order to better identify those vessels that carry out
artisanal or small-scale fishing activities, it is necessary to
introduce a more precise distinction among fishing gears.

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, 6 December 2006.

For the Commission

Joe BORG
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 59.
(2) OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 25.

(3) OJ L 223, 15.8.2006, p. 1.

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ANNEX

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 is amended as follows:

1. Table 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Table 2

Date of census fixed by country

BEL, DNK, FRA, GBR, PRT

NLD

DEU, ESP

IRL

ITA

GRC

SWE, FIN

CYP, EST, LTU, LVA, MLT, POL, SVN

Member States acceding after 1 May 2004

2. Table 3 is replaced by the following:

‘Table 3

Code for fishing gear

Gear category

Gear

Surrounding nets

Purse seines

Seines

Trawls

Lampara nets

Beach seines

Danish seines

Scottish seines

Pair seines

Beam trawl

Bottom otter trawl

Bottom pair trawls

Midwater otter trawls

Pelagic pair trawls

Otter twin trawls

Dredges

Boat dredges

Hand dredges used on board a vessel

Mechanised dredges including suction
dredges

Lift nets

Boat-operated lift nets

Shore-operated stationary lift nets

Code

PS

LA

SB

SDN

SSC

SPR

TBB

OTB

PTB

OTM

PTM

OTT

DRB

DRH

HMD

LNB

LNS

1.1.1989

1.9.1989

1.1.1990

1.10.1990

1.1.1991

1.7.1991

1.1.1995

1.5.2004
Accession date’

Static (S) or
towed (T) or
mobile gear (M)

Pelagic (P) or
demersal (D)

M

M

T

T

T

T

T

T

T

T

T

T

T

T

T

M

M

P

P

D/P

D/P

D/P

D/P

D

D

D

D/P

D/P

D/P

D

D

D

P

P

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Static (S) or
towed (T) or
mobile gear (M)

Pelagic (P) or
demersal (D)

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

M

D

D/P

D/P

D/P

D/P

D

D/P

D/P

D

P

P

Gear category

Gear

Gill nets and
entangling nets

Set (anchored) gill nets

Driftnet

Encircling gill nets

Trammel nets

Combined trammel and gill nets

Traps

Pots (traps)

Hooks and lines

Hand lines and pole lines
(hand operated)

Code

GNS

GND

GNC

GTR

GTN

FPO

LHP

Hand lines and pole lines (mechanised)

LHM

Set longlines

Longlines (drifting)

Troll lines

Gear unknown (1)

No gear (2)

(1) Not valid for vessels in fleet or reported from 1 January 2003.
(2) Valid only for subsidiary fishing gear.’

3. Table 7 is replaced by the following:

LLS

LLD

LTL

NK

NO

‘Table 7

Codes for public aid

Aid not part-financed by the Community

Aid part-financed by the Community

No public aid

Aid for the replacement of engine conditional to power reduction (individual option)

Aid for the replacement of engine conditional to power reduction (group option)

AE

AC

PA

EI
EG’