ANNEX IIAFISHING EFFORT FOR VESSELS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RECOVERY OF CERTAIN SOUTHERN HAKE AND NORWAY LOBSTER STOCKS IN ICES DIVISIONS 8c AND 9a EXCLUDING THE GULF OF CÁDIZ

CHAPTER VIReporting obligations

14.FISHING EFFORT REPORT

Article 28 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 shall apply to vessels falling under the scope of this Annex. The geographical area referred to in that Article shall be understood as the area specified in point 2 of this Annex.

15.COLLECTION OF RELEVANT DATA

Member States 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 kilowatt days, on the basis of information used for the management of fishing days present within the area as set out in this Annex.

16.COMMUNICATION OF RELEVANT DATA

Upon request from the Commission, Member States shall make available to the Commission a spreadsheet with data specified in point 15 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 detailed information to the Commission on effort allocated and consumed covering all or parts of the current and the precedent management periods, using the data format specified in Tables IV and V.

Table IIReporting format kW-day information by management period

Member State

Gear

Management period

Cumulative effort declaration

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Table IIIData format kW-day information by management period

Name of field

Maximum number of characters/digits

Alignment299L(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:

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

  • GN = gillnets ≥ 60 mm

  • LL = bottom longlines

(3)

Management period

4

One management period in the period from the 2006 management period to the current management period

(4)

Cumulative effort declaration

7

R

Cumulative amount of fishing effort expressed in kilowatt days deployed from 1 February until 31 January of the relevant management period

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

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

Alignment300L(eft)/R(ight)

Definition and comments

(1)

Member State

3

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

(2)

CFR

12

Union fishing fleet register number (CFR)

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 shall be inserted on the left hand side

(3)

External marking

14

L

Under Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 404/2011301

(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 referred to in point 6.1.(a) or (b) of Annex IIA that apply

(7)

Days eligible using notified gear(s)

3

L

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

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 404/2011 of 8 April 2011 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy (OJ L 112, 30.4.2011, p. 1).