Council Regulation (EC) No 1299/2008 of 9 December 2008 fixing for the 2009 fishing year the guide prices and Community producer prices for certain fishery products pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 104/2000
Date: 2008-12-09
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: common price policy, fishery product, fixing of prices, guide price, producer price

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REGULATIONS

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1299/2008

of 9 December 2008

fixing for the 2009 fishing year the guide prices and Community producer prices for certain fishery
products pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 104/2000

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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 18(3) and Article 26(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 18(1) and Article 26(1) of Regulation (EC) No
104/2000 provide that a guide price and a Community
producer price should be fixed for each fishing year in
order to determine price levels for intervention on the
market for certain fisheries products.

Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 requires
the guide price to be fixed for each of the products and
groups of products listed in Annexes I and II to that
Regulation.

On the basis of currently available data on the prices for
the products concerned and the criteria referred to in
Article 18(2) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000,
the
guide prices should be increased, maintained or reduced
for the 2009 fishing year depending on the species.

Article 26(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 requires
the
the Community producer price to be fixed for
products listed in Annex III
is
to that Regulation.
appropriate to establish the Community producer price

It

for one of those products and calculate the Community
producer price for the others by means of the conversion
factors established by Commission Regulation (EC) No
802/2006 of 30 May 2006 fixing the conversion
the genera Thunnus and
factors applicable to fish of
Euthynnus (2).

On the basis of the criteria laid down in the first and
second indents of Article 18(2) and in Article 26(1) of
Regulation (EC) No 104/2000, the Community producer
price for the 2009 fishing year should be adjusted.

Given the urgency of the matter, it is important to grant
an exception to the six-week period mentioned in
paragraph 1(3) of the Protocol on the role of national
parliaments in the European Union annexed to the Treaty
on European Union,

(5)

(6)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the fishing year from 1 January to 31 December 2009, the
guide prices as provided for in Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC)
No 104/2000 shall be as set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 2

For the fishing year from 1 January to 31 December 2009, the
Community producer prices as provided for in Article 26(1) of
Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 shall be as set out in Annex II to
this Regulation.

(1) OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.
(2) OJ L 144, 31.5.2006, p. 15.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2009.

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 9 December 2008.

For the Council
The President

D. BUSSEREAU

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ANNEX I

Annexes

Species
Products listed in Annexes I and II to Regulation
(EC) No 104/2000

Commercial presentation

Guide price
(EUR/tonne)

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1. Herring of the species Clupea harengus Whole fish

2. Sardines
pilchardus

of

the

species

Sardina

Whole fish

3. Dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

4. Spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus spp.)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

5. Redfish (Sebastes spp.)

Whole fish

6. Cod of the species Gadus morhua

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

7. Saithe (Pollachius virens)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

8. Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

9. Whiting (Merlangius merlangus)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

10. Ling (Molva spp.)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

11. Mackerel
scombrus

12. Mackerel
japonicus

of

the

species

Scomber

Whole fish

of

the

species

Scomber

Whole fish

13. Anchovy (Engraulis spp.)

Whole fish

14. Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head from
1.1.2009 to 30.4.2009

Whole fish or gutted fish with head from
1.5.2009 to 31.12.2009

281

574

1 112

725

1 200

1 655

776

1 038

955

1 214

323

291

1 300

1 079

1 499

15. Hake

of
merluccius

the

species Merluccius

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

3 620

16. Megrim (Lepidorhombus spp.)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

2 528

17. Dab (Limanda limanda)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

18. Common flounder (Platichthys flesus)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

19. Albacore or longfinned tunas (Thunnus

Whole fish

alalunga)

Gutted fish with head

20. Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis and Rossia

Whole

macrosoma)

21. Monkfish (Lophius spp.)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

Without head

854

522

2 197

2 415

1 729

2 968

6 107

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Annexes

Species
Products listed in Annexes I and II to Regulation
(EC) No 104/2000

Commercial presentation

Guide price
(EUR/tonne)

22. Shrimp of the species Crangon crangon

Simply boiled in water

23. Northern prawn (Pandalus borealis)

Simply boiled in water

Fresh or chilled

24. Edible crab (Cancer pagurus)

Whole

25. Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus)

Whole

Tails

26. Sole (Solea spp.)

Whole fish or gutted fish with head

II

1. Greenland halibut

(Reinhardtius hippoglossoides)

Frozen, in original packages containing the
same products

2 498

6 539

1 622

1 783

5 470

4 364

6 880

1 955

2. Hake of the genus Merluccius spp.

Frozen, whole,
containing the same products

original

in

Frozen,
containing the same products

filleted,

original

in

packages

1 196

packages

1 483

3. Sea bream (Dentex dentex and Pagellus

spp.)

Frozen,
in lots or
containing the same products

in original packages

1 554

4. Swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

Frozen, whole,
containing the same products

original

in

packages

3 998

5. Cuttlefish

officinalis)
(Sepia
macrosoma) (Sepiola rondeletti)

(Rossia

Frozen, in original packages containing the
same products

6. Octopus (Octopus spp.)

7. Squid (Loligo spp.)

Frozen, in original packages containing the
same products

Frozen, in original packages containing the
same products

8. Squid (Ommastrephes sagittatus)

Frozen, in original packages containing the
same products

9. Illex argentinus

Frozen, in original packages containing the
same products

10. Prawn of the family Penaeidae

— Prawn of
longirostris

the species Parapenaeus

Frozen, in original packages containing the
same products

— Other

species

of

the

family

Penaeidae

Frozen, in original packages containing the
same products

1 954

2 183

1 203

961

869

4 032

7 897

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ANNEX II

Species
Products listed in Annex III to Regulation
(EC) No 104/2000

Weight

Commercial specifications

Community
producer price
(EUR/tonne)

Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)

weighing more than 10 kg each

Whole

1 275

Gilled and gutted

Other

weighing not more than 10 kg each Whole

Gilled and gutted

Other

Albacore (Thunnus alalunga)

weighing more than 10 kg each

Whole

Gilled and gutted

Other

weighing not more than 10 kg each Whole

Skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis)

Bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)

Other species of the genera Thunnus
and Euthynnus

Gilled and gutted

Other

Whole

Gilled and gutted

Other

Whole

Gilled and gutted

Other

Whole

Gilled and gutted

Other