1.Member States shall ensure that relevant detailed and aggregated data to be sent on a regular basis is provided timely to the appropriate regional fisheries management organisations to which the Community is a contracting party or observer and relevant international scientific bodies in accordance with the international obligations of the Community and the Member States.
2.Where detailed and aggregated data are requested for specific scientific analysis, Member States shall ensure that the data is provided to end-users:
(a)for the purpose referred to in Article 18(1)(a), within one month from the receipt of the request for these data;
(b)for the purpose referred to in Article 18(1)(b), within two months from the receipt of the request for these data.
3.Where detailed and aggregated data are requested for scientific publication referred to in Article 18(1)(c), Member States:
(a)may, in order to protect the professional interests of the data collectors, withhold data transmission to the end-users for a period of three years following the date of collection of the data. Member States shall inform the end-users and the Commission of any such decisions. In duly justified cases the Commission may authorise that period to be extended;
(b)shall in case that three years period has already expired, ensure that the data is provided to end-users within two months from the receipt of the request for these data.
4.Member States may refuse to transmit the relevant detailed and aggregated data only:
(a)if there is a risk of natural persons and/or legal entities being identified, in which case the Member State may propose alternative means to meet the needs of the end-user which ensure anonymity;
(b)in the cases referred to in Article 22(3);
(c)if the same data are already available in another form or format which is easily accessible by end-users.
5.In cases where the data requested by end-users other than appropriate regional fisheries management organisations to which the Community is contracting party or observer and relevant international scientific bodies are different from those already provided to appropriate regional fisheries management organisations to which the Community is contracting party or observer and relevant international scientific bodies, Member States may charge those end-users the actual costs of extraction and, if required, aggregation of the data before their transmission.