REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission under Regulation (EC) No 1921/2006 on the submission of statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States
Date: 2018-01-12
Institutions: European Commission, Eurostat
Subjects: EU Member State, EU statistics, data collection, delegated legislation, fishery product, fishing statistics, powers of the institutions (EU), quantity of fish landed, transfer of competence

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 12.1.2018  COM(2018) 11 final  REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission under Regulation (EC) No 1921/2006 on the submission of statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States  
 
 
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BACKGROUND 

Regulation  (EC)  No  1921/2006  of  18  December  2006  on  the  submission  of 
statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States1  was modified by 
Regulation (EU) No 1350/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 
December  2013  amending  certain  legislative  acts  in  the  field  of  agricultural  and 
fishery statistics2 to align implementing powers with the Treaty on the Functioning 
of the European Union. 

Under Article 9 of this Regulation, the Commission is authorised to adopt delegated 
acts concerning technical amendments to Annexes I - IV. 

It  must  ensure  that  such  delegated  acts  do  not  impose  any  significant  additional 
administrative burden on Member States or on respondents. 

Under  Article  10a(2),  the  power  to  adopt  delegated  acts  is  conferred  on  the 
Commission  for  a  period  of  five  years  from  10  January  2014.  This  power  is  to  be 
tacitly  extended  for  periods  of  five  years  unless  the  European  Parliament  or  the 
Council object. 

The Commission is obliged to draw up a report on the delegation of power not later 
than  nine  months  before  the  end  of  the  five-year  period,  which  means  before  10 
April 2018. 

This report fulfils this obligation. 

2. 

COMMISSION  EXERCISE  OF  DELEGATED  POWERS  UNDER  REGULATION  (EC)  NO 
1921/2006 

The Commission has not yet exercised the power to adopt delegated acts conferred 
on it by Regulation (EU) No 1921/2006. 

Regulation (EC) No 1921/2006 covers the annual collection of statistical data on the 
total  quantities  and  unit  values  of  the  fishery  products  landed  on  Member  State 
territory  by  EC  and  EFTA  fishing  vessels,  broken  down  by  presentation  and 
intended use of the fishery products. The first data were collected in 2007 and were 
delivered to the Commission (Eurostat) at the end of June 2008. 

Until the time of delivering this report, the collection of data under Regulation (EC) 
No  1921/2006  was  stable  and  international  definitions  did  not  change.  The 
Commission  has  therefore  not  yet  deemed  it  necessary  to  exercise  the  delegated 
powers.  

3. 

CONCLUSIONS 

The Commission has not yet exercised the power to adopt delegated acts conferred 
on it by Regulation (EU) No 1921/2006. 

1   OJ L 403/1, 30.12.2006. 
2   OJ L 351, 21.12.2013. 

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The Commission considers that it should continue to have these delegated powers as 
in the future it may need to adopt a delegated act to modify the list of presentation 
and  intended  use  codes  set  in  the  Annexes  to  the  above-mentioned  Regulation  to 
meet the needs of data users in the context of the future common fisheries policy. 

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