CHAPTER IIIDATA MANAGEMENT PROCESS
Article 14Data quality control and validation
1
Member States shall be responsible for the quality and completeness of the primary data collected under national programmes, and for the detailed and aggregated data derived therefrom which are transmitted to end-users.
2
Member States shall ensure that:
a
primary data collected under national programmes are properly checked for errors by appropriate quality control procedures;
b
detailed and aggregated data derived from primary data collected under national programmes are validated before their transmission to end-users;
c
the quality assurance procedures applied to the primary, detailed and aggregated data referred to in (a) and (b) are developed in accordance with the procedures adopted by the international scientific bodies, regional fisheries management organisations and STECF.