ANNEX IIBFISHING EFFORT FOR VESSELS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RECOVERY OF CERTAIN SOUTHERN HAKE AND NORWAY LOBSTER STOCKS IN ICES DIVISIONS VIIIc AND IXa EXCLUDING THE GULF OF CADIZ

REPORTING OBLIGATIONS

12.Collection of relevant data

Member States, on the basis of information used for the management of fishing days present within the area as set out in this Annex, shall collect on a quarterly basis the information about total fishing effort deployed within the area for towed gears and static gears, effort deployed by vessels using different types of gear in the area, and the engine power of those vessels in kW.

13.Communication of relevant data

Upon request from the Commission, Member States shall make available to the Commission a spreadsheet with the data referred to in point 12 in the format specified in Tables II and III by sending it to the appropriate electronic mailbox address, which shall be communicated to the Member States by the Commission. Member States shall, upon the Commission's request, also send to the Commission detailed information on effort allocated and consumed covering all or parts of the 2009 and 2010 management periods, using the data format specified in Tables IV and V.

Table IIReporting format kW-day information by year

Country

Gear

Year

Cumulative effort declaration

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Table IIIData format kW-day information by year

Name of field

Maximum number of characters/digits

Alignment261L(eft)/R(ight)

Definition and comments

(1)

Country

3

Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code) in which the vessel is registered

(2)

Gear

2

one of the following gear types:

TR = trawls, Danish seines and similar gear ≥ 32 mm

GN = gillnets ≥ 60 mm

LL = bottom longlines

(3)

Year

4

either 2006 or 2007 or 2008 or 2009 or 2010

(4)

Cumulative effort declaration

7

R

cumulative amount of fishing effort expressed in kilowatt days deployed from 1 January until 31 December of the year

Information relevant for transmission of data by fixed-length formatting.

Table IVReporting format for vessel-related information

Country

CFR

External marking

Length of management period

Gear notified

Special condition applying to notified gear(s)

Days eligible using notified gear(s)

Days spent with notified gear(s)

Transfer of days

No 1

No 2

No 3

No 1

No 2

No 3

No 1

No 2

No 3

No 1

No 2

No 3

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(6)

(6)

(6)

(6)

(7)

(7)

(7)

(7)

(8)

(8)

(8)

(8)

(9)

Table VData format for vessel-related information

Name of field

Maximum number of characters/digits

Alignment262L(eft)/R(ight)

Definition and comments

(1)

Country

3

Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code) in which vessel is registered.

(2)

CFR

12

EU fishing fleet register number

Unique identification number of a fishing vessel.

Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code) followed by an identifying series (9 characters). Where a series has fewer than 9 characters additional zeros must be inserted on the left hand side.

(3)

External marking

14

L

Under Regulation (EEC) No 1381/87.

(4)

Length of management period

2

L

Length of the management period measured in months

(5)

Gears notified

2

L

One of the following gear types

TR = trawls, Danish seines and similar gear ≥ 32 mm

GN = gillnets ≥ 60 mm

LL = bottom longlines

(6)

Special condition applying to notified gear(s)

2

L

Indication of which, if any, of the special condition a-b referred to in point 7.2 of Annex IIB that apply

(7)

Days eligible using notified gear(s)

3

L

Number of days for which the vessel is eligible under Annex IIB for the choice of gears and length of management period notified

(8)

Days spent with notified gear(s)

3

L

Number of days the vessel actually spent present within the area and using a gear corresponding to gear notified during the notified management period

(9)

Transfers of days

4

L

For days transferred indicate ‘– number of days transferred’ and for days received indicate ‘+ number of days transferred’.

Information relevant for transmission of data by fixed-length formatting.