Commission Regulation (EU) No 123/2011 of 11 February 2011 fixing the Union selling prices for the fishery products listed in Annex II to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 for the 2011 fishing year
Date: 2011-02-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common fisheries policy, fixing of prices, guide price, producer price, sea fish








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12.2.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 38/19








            COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 123/2011
of 11 February 2011
         
fixing the Union selling prices for the fishery products listed in Annex II to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 for the 2011 fishing year


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


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)


A Union 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.












(2)


Council Regulation (EU) No 1258/2010 (2) fixes the guide prices for the 2011 fishing year for all the products concerned.












(3)


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












(4)


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












(5)


In order not to hinder the operation of the intervention system in the year 2011, this Regulation should apply retroactively from 1 January 2011.












(6)


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 Union selling prices, as referred to in Article 25(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000, applicable during the 2011 fishing year for the products listed in Annex II to that Regulation 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 its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2011.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 11 February 2011.


For the Commission


The President

José Manuel BARROSO
            





(1)  
            OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.

(2)  
            OJ L 343, 29.12.2010, p. 6.




ANNEX

SELLING PRICES AND CONVERSION FACTORS










Species


Presentation


Conversion factor


Intervention level


Selling price (EUR/tonne)




Greenland halibut

(Reinhardtius hippoglossoides)



Whole or gutted, with or without head


1,0 


0,85 


1 629 




Hake
(Merluccius spp.)


Whole or gutted, with or without head


1,0 


0,85 


1 047 




Individual fillets


 


 


 










—


with skin






1,0 


0,85 


1 273 










—


skinless






1,1 


0,85 


1 401 




Sea-bream

(Dentex dentex and Pagellus spp.)


Whole or gutted, with or without head


1,0 


0,85 


1 230 




Swordfish

(Xiphias gladius)



Whole or gutted, with or without head


1,0 


0,85 


3 449 




Shrimps and prawns

Penaeidae



Frozen


 


 


 










(a)


Parapenaeus Longirostris






 


1,0 


0,85 


3 461 










(b)


Other Penaeidae







 


1,0 


0,85 


6 641 




Cuttlefishes
(Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma and Sepiola rondeletti)


Frozen


1,0 


0,85 


1 628 




Squid (Loligo spp.)


 


 


 


 










(a)


Loligo patagonica












—


whole, not cleaned






1,00 


0,85 


997 










—


cleaned






1,20 


0,85 


1 196 










(b)


Loligo vulgaris












—


whole, not cleaned






2,50 


0,85 


2 493 










—


cleaned






2,90 


0,85 


2 891 




Octopus
(Octopus spp)


Frozen


1,00 


0,85 


1 837 





Illex argentinus









—


whole, not cleaned






1,00 


0,80 


698 










—


tube






1,70 


0,80 


1 187 





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