Article 13Reporting of catches and fishing effort
1.Community fishing vessels for which a fishing authorisation has been issued under Section II or III shall, on a weekly basis, transmit to their competent national authority data concerning their catches and, where required, their fishing effort. This data shall be accessible to the Commission upon request.
Notwithstanding the first subparagraph, Community fishing vessels exceeding 24 metres in overall length shall, as from 1 January 2010, transmit on a daily basis to their competent national authority the data concerning their catches and, where required, their fishing effort in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 1566/2007 of 21 December 2007 laying down the detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1966/2006 on electronic recording and reporting of fishing activities and on means of remote sensing(1). As from 1 January 2011, this shall also apply to Community fishing vessels exceeding 15 metres in overall length.
2.Member States shall collect the data referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and, before the 15th of each calendar month, shall submit by electronic transmission to the Commission, or to a body designated by the Commission, data for each stock, group of stocks or fishing category, on the quantities caught, and, where required under an agreement or regulation implementing that agreement, on the fishing effort deployed during the previous month by vessels flying their flag in the waters falling under the scope of an agreement and in the previous six months for fishing activities outside Community waters not falling under the scope of an agreement.
3.The Commission shall, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 27(2), decide on the format in which to transmit the data referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.