ANNEX IICFISHING EFFORT FOR VESSELS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN CHANNEL SOLE STOCKS ICES DIVISION VIIe

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 for each annual quarter the information about total fishing effort deployed within the area for towed gears and static gears and effort deployed by vessels using different types of gear in the area concerned by this Annex.

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, send to the Commission detailed information on effort allocated and consumed covering all or parts of the 2010 and 2011 management periods, using the data format specified in Tables IV and V.

Table IIReporting format kW-day information by year

Member State

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

Alignment275L(eft)/R(ight)

Definition and comments

(1)

Member State

3

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

(2)

Gear

2

One of the following gear types:

BT

beam trawls ≥ 80 mm

GN

gillnet < 220 mm

TN

trammel net or entangling net < 220 mm

(3)

Year

4

Either 2006 or 2007 or 2008 or 2009 or 2010 or 2011

(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

Member State

CFR

External marking

Length of management period

Gear notified

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

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(6)

(6)

(6)

(6)

(7)

(7)

(7)

(7)

(8)

Table VData format for vessel-related information

Name of field

Maximum number of characters/digits

Alignment276L(eft)/R(ight)

Definition and comments

(1)

Member State

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:

BT

beam trawls ≥ 80 mm

GN

gillnet < 220 mm

TN

trammel net or entangling net < 220 mm

(6)

Special condition applying to notified gear(s)

3

L

Number of days for which the vessel is eligible under Annex IIC 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.