1998R2090 — EN — 29.05.2002 — 001.001

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►B	COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2090/98 of 30 September 1998 concerning the fishing vessel register of the Community (OJ L 266, 1.10.1998, p.27)

Amended by:

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►M1	Commission Regulation (EC) No 839/2002 of 21 May 2002	L 134	5	22.5.2002

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2090/98

of 30 September 1998

concerning the fishing vessel register of the Community

Article 1

The fishing vessel register of the Community, hereafter referred to as ‘the register’, concerns all Community fishing vessels as defined by Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92.

Article 2

The register shall contain:

Article 3

Each Member State shall communicate information relating to events required by Annexes I to V by digital transfer over a telecommunications network at the same time as the event is recorded by the authorities of the Member State concerned. The Commission shall acknowledge receipt of messages as soon as they have been validated in the database.

Any registration of new data or correction of erroneous data concerning the characteristics and/or identification features of a vessel must be in accordance with the procedures laid down in this Regulation.

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Article 3a

The information defined in Annex I by Regulation (EC) No 839 must be supplied to the Commission no later than 31 December 2002 in the case of vessels with a fishing licence whose overall length is 15 metres or more or whose length between perpendiculars is 12 metres or more.

For vessels with a fishing licence whose overall length is under 15 metres or whose length between perpendiculars is under 12 metres, the deadline for transmission of the information shall be 31 December 2003 at the latest.

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Article 4

Corrections to erroneous information contained in the register shall be forwarded to the Commission in accordance with the detailed rules set out in Annexes I to V within 30 days of the date on which the error is detected.

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Article 5

The Commission shall record the information on fishing vessels communicated by the Member States in accordance with this Regulation in the database constituting the register, subject to its conformity with the Annexes to this Regulation.

The Member States shall have access to the register data concerning their own fleet.

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Article 5a

A vessel shall be identified in a unique way by means of its internal number defined in Annex I to this Regulation.

This number shall be allocated definitively when the vessel is first registered in a national register. Subsequently, it shall neither be modified nor reallocated even if the vessel is transferred from or to another Member State, destroyed, withdrawn from fishing or reassigned.

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Article 6

Regulation (EC) No 109/94 is repealed.

References to Articles 1, 2, 3 and 9(a) of Regulation (EC) No 109/94 shall be construed as references to Articles 1, 2, 3 and 5 respectively of present Regulation. References to Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 109/94 concerning events relating to Annexes I to V to Regulation (EC) No 109/94 shall be construed as references to Article 4 of the present Regulation.

References to Article 4 and to Articles 5 and 6 of Regulation (EC) No 109/94 shall be construed as references to Articles 2 and 3 respectively of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2091/98 of 30 September 1998 concerning the segmentation of the Community fishing fleet and fishing effort in relation to the multiannual guidance programmes ( 8 ). References to Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 109/94 concerning events relating to tables A and B of Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 109/94 shall be construed as references to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2091/98.

References to Articles 3(a), 5(a), 8(a) and 9 of Regulation (EC) No 109/94 shall be construed as references to Articles 1, 2, 4 and 5 respectively of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2092/98 of 30 September 1998 concerning the declaration of fishing effort relating to certain Community fishing areas and resources ( 9 ). References to Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 109/94 concerning events relating to tables C and 2 of Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 109/94 or relating to Annex VII to Regulation (EC) No 109/94 shall be construed as references to Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2092/98.

Article 7

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

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

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ANNEX I

DEFINITION OF THE DATA TO BE COMMUNICATED AND DESCRIPTION OF A RECORD

Name of the zone	Width	Alignment	Definition and remarks
Updating indicator	3	—	Code identifying the type of declaration (see Table 1)
Internal number (1)	12	L	Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code) followed by unique identification (1 to 9 characters)
Country of registration	3	—	Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code) where vessel is registered for fishing (Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92); always the declaring country
Flag	3	—	Member State (Alpha-3 ISO code) whose flag the vessel is flying (Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92)
Registration number	14	L
Name of vessel	40	L
Port of registration	5	L	Coded using national code system (2)
International radio call sign	7	L	i.e. the IRCS.
External marking	14	L	In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 1381/87
Type of fishing gear 1	3	L	Gear used, FAO international code system (see Table 2)
Type of fishing gear 2	3	L	Any second gear used, FAO international code system (see Table 2)
Type of fishing gear 3	3	L	Any third gear used, FAO international code system (see Table 2)
Length overall	5	R	In centimetres, as defined in Regulation (EEC) No 2930/86
Length between perpendiculars	5	R	In centimetres, as defined in Regulation (EEC) No 2930/86
Tonnage 2930/86	7	R	To hundredths of a tonne, as defined in Regulation (EEC) No 2930/86 (3)
Tonnage Oslo Convention	7	R	To hundredths of a tonne
Tonnage, other standard	7	R	To hundredths of a tonne, standard to be indicated by the Member State
Main engine power	7	R	To hundredths of a kW — as defined on Regulation (EEC) No 2930/86
Auxiliary engine power	7	R	To hundredths of a kW — all installed power not included under ‘main engine power’
Hull material	1	—	Material used for the hull (see Table 3)
Date of entry into service (4)	8	—	Date (YYYYMMDD) determing the age of the vessel, as defined in Regulation (EEC) No 2930/86
Year of construction (4)	4	—	Determines by default the age of the vessel; the value 1850 signifies 1850 or earlier
Segment	3	L	Segment of the fleet (Regulation (EC) No 2091/98)
Importing/exporting country	3	—	Alpha-3 ISO code of importing or exporting country
Date of event	8	—	Date (YYYYMMDD) when the event occurred (5)
Assisted withdrawal scheme	1	—	See Table 4
(1)   Member States should give a unique identification number to each fishing vessel registered on the Member State's census date, and to vessels registered for the first time in the Member State after that date. This number may not subsequently be changed, even for vessels exported to another Member State, nor given to another vessel even where the first one to be given the number is scrapped or withdrawn from fishing. (2)   Any changes to the national code system will require the approval of the Commission. (3)   As last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 3259/94 of 22 December 1994 as well as Commission Decision 95/84/EC of 20 March 1995. (4)   The date of entry into service or failing that the last day of the year of construction will be used to determine the age of the vessel. (5)   In the case of a census of the fleet, this should be the date of the census in the Member State making the declaration; in the case of new construction, the date of entry into service; where a correction or deletion of a declaration is involved, it should be the date of the event corrected or deleted.

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Table 1 — Codes for updating indicator

Census	XXX
Entry into fishing (new construction)	CST
Entry into fishing (change of activity)	CHA
Modification of a vessel	MOD
Entry into fishing by importation	IMP
Withdrawal from fishing by exportation	EXP
Withdrawal from fishing by cessation fo fishing activity in Member State	RET
Withdrawal from fishing by destruction	DES
Correction of previously declared event	COR
Deletion of previously declared event	DEL

Table 2 — Codes for type of fishing gear

Towed gear

Bottom otter trawls	OTB
Beam trawls	TBB
Bottom pair trawls	PTB
Danish seines (anchor)	SDN
Scottish seines (fly-dragging)	SSC
Beach seines	SB
Dredges	DRB
Bottom trawls for crustaceans	CTB
Mid-water otter trawls	OTM
Mid-water pair trawls	PTM
Other towed gear	OTG

Static and other gear

Purse seines	PS
Gillnets (set)	GNS
Gillnets (drift)	GND
Trammel nets	GTR
Longlines (set)	LLS
Longlines (drifting)	LLD
Pots	FPO
Towed lines	LH
Live-bait gear	BTF
Other static and other gears	OFG

All vessels that have been declared as using static gears and towed gears are considered as polyvalent vessels.

Table 3 — Codes for hull material

Wood	1
Metal	2
Fibreglass/plastic	3
Other	4

Table 4 — Codes for type of withdrawal

Publicly assisted	1
Not publicly assisted, not related to the entry of new capacity	2
Not publicly assisted, related to the entry of new capacity	3

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ANNEX II

DATA TO BE COMMUNICATED ACCORDING TO DECLARATION TYPE

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ANNEX III

SPECIAL VALUES ACCORDING TO DECLARATION TYPE

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ANNEX IV

REPRESENTATION OF THE SPECIAL VALUES

	Unknown	Does not exist	Unchanged	Do not correct
Updating indicator	—	—	—	—
Internal number	—	—	—	—
Date of event	—	—	—	—
Category of programme	—	—	997	990
Country of registration	—	—	997	990
Flag	—	—	997	990
Registration number	—	—	9 … 97	9 … 90
Name of vessel	—	—	9 … 97	9 … 90
Port of registration	—	—	99997	99990
International radio call sign	—	9 … 95	9 … 97	9 … 90
External marking	—	—	9 … 97	9 … 90
Type of fishing gear 1	—	—	997	990
Type of fishing gear 2	—	995	997	990
Type of fishing gear 3	—	995	997	990
Length overall	99999	—	99997	99990
Length between perpendiculars	99999	—	99997	99990
Tonnage London	9 … 99	—	9 … 97	9 … 90
Tonnage Oslo Convention	9 … 99	—	9 … 97	9 … 90
Tonnage, other standard	9 … 99	—	9 … 97	9 … 90
Main engine power	—	—	9 … 97	9 … 90
Other engine power	9 … 99	9 … 95	9 … 97	9 … 90
Hull material	—	—	—	0
Date of entry into service	— (1)	—	—	9 … 90
Year of construction	—	—	—	9990
Importing/exporting country	—	—	—	990
Assisted withdrawal scheme	—	—	—	0
(1)   Use YYYYMM99 for dates where the day of the month is not known and YYYY9999 for dates where the month and day are unknown

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ANNEX V

DEFAULT VALUES ACCORDING TO DECLARATION TYPE

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( 1 ) OJ L 389, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.

( 2 ) OJ L 164, 9. 6. 1998, p. 1.

( 3 ) OJ L 274, 25. 9. 1986, p. 1.

( 4 ) OJ L 339, 29. 12. 1994, p. 11.

( 5 ) OJ L 132, 21. 5. 1987, p. 9.

( 6 ) OJ L 19, 22. 1. 1994, p. 5.

( 7 ) OJ L 72, 21. 3. 1996, p. 12.

( 8 ) See page 36 of this Official Journal.

( 9 ) See page 47 of this Official Journal.