CHAPTER 5RULES CONCERNING SPECIFIC GOODS AND MOVEMENTS

F1Article 21Sea products

1.

For the purposes of this Article:

(a)

‘sea products’ means fishery products, minerals, salvage and all other products which have not yet been landed by seagoing vessels;

(b)

a vessel shall be deemed to belong to the F2United Kingdom if that is where the taxable person who exercises the economic ownership of the vessel defined in Article 17(1)(c) is established.

2.

Statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States F3and the United Kingdom on sea products shall cover the following arrivals and dispatches:

(a)

the landing of sea products in the reporting Member State’s ports, or their acquisition by vessels belonging to the F4United Kingdom from vessels belonging to F5a Member State. These transactions shall be treated as arrivals;

(b)

the landing of sea products in F5a Member State’s ports from a vessel belonging to the F4United Kingdom, or their acquisition by vessels belonging to F5a Member State from vessels belonging to the F4United Kingdom. These transactions shall be treated as dispatches.

3.

On arrival, the partner Member State shall be a Member State where the taxable person who exercises the economic ownership of the vessel, which is carrying out the capturing, is established and, on dispatch, F6a Member State where the sea products are landed or where the taxable person who exercises the economic ownership of the vessel, acquiring the sea products, is established.

4.

Provided that there is no conflict with other F7... law, national authorities shall have access to all available data sources that they may need to apply this Article, in addition to those of the Intrastat system or customs declaration.