Commission Regulation (EU) No 1281/2009

of 22 December 2009

fixing the Community selling prices for the fishery products listed in Annex II to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 for the 2010 fishing year

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17 December 1999 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products(1), and in particular Article 25(1) and (6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) An EU selling price is to be fixed for each of the products listed in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 before the beginning of the fishing year, at a level at least equal to 70 % and not exceeding 90 % of the guide price.

(2) Council Regulation (EC) No 1212/2009(2) fixes the guide prices for the 2010 fishing year for all the products concerned.

(3) Market prices vary considerably depending on the species and how the products are presented, particularly in the case of squid and hake.

(4) Conversion factors should therefore be fixed for the different species and presentations of frozen products landed in the EU in order to determine the price level that trigger the intervention measure provided for in Article 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000.

(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fishery Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 U.K.

The EU selling prices, as referred to in Article 25(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000, applicable during the 2010 fishing year for the products listed in Annex II to that Regulation and the presentations and conversion factors to which they relate are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2 U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2010.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 December 2009.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel Barroso

ANNEX U.K.

Selling prices and conversion factors

Forms of commercial presentation:
whole, not cleaned : product which has not undergone any treatment cleaned : product which has at least been gutted tube : squid body which has at least been gutted and had the head removed
Species	Presentation	Conversion factor	Intervention level	Selling price(EUR/tonne)
Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides)	Whole or gutted, with or without head	1,0	0,85	1 629
Hake (Merluccius spp.)	Whole or gutted, with or without head	1,0	0,85	1 027
	Individual fillets
	— with skin	1,0	0,85	1 261
	— skinless	1,1	0,85	1 387
Sea-bream (Dentex dentex and Pagellus spp.)	Whole or gutted, with or without head	1,0	0,85	1 268
Swordfish (Xiphias gladius)	Whole or gutted, with or without head	1,0	0,85	3 398
Shrimps and prawns Penaeidae	Frozen
(a) Parapenaeus Longirostris		1,0	0,85	3 461
(b) Other Penaeidae		1,0	0,85	6 847
Cuttlefishes (Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma and Sepiola rondeletti)	Frozen	1,0	0,85	1 628
Squid (Loligo spp.)
(a) Loligo patagonica	— whole, not cleaned	1,0	0,85	1 002
	— cleaned	1,2	0,85	1 203
(b) Loligo vulgaris	— whole, not cleaned	2,5	0,85	2 505
	— cleaned	2,9	0,85	2 906
Octopus (Octopus spp)	Frozen	1,0	0,85	1 837
Illex argentinus	— whole, not cleaned	1,0	0,8	685
	— tube	1,7	0,8	1 164

(1)

OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.

(2)

OJ L 327, 12.12.2009, p. 1.