Council Regulation (EC) No 861/2006 (repealed)Show full title

Article 9 Measures in the area of basic data collection

1. In the area of basic data collection, Community financial measures shall apply to the expenditure incurred by the Member States for the collection and management of the basic fisheries data for the purposes of:

(i)

evaluating the activities of the various fishing fleets and changes in the fishing power;

(ii)

preparing summaries using the data collected under the other Community legislation concerning the CFP, and collecting additional information to:

• establish, based on sampling where necessary, data collection programmes additional to any such obligations under the other Community legislation or for spheres of activity not covered by any such obligations,

• specify procedures that will produce aggregated data,

• ensure that the data used to produce aggregated data remains available for any recalculations, whenever needed;

(iii)

estimating the total volume of catches per stock and vessel group, including discards where appropriate and, where appropriate, classifying such catches by geographical area and time period;

(iv)

estimating the abundance and distribution of stocks. Such estimates may be based on commercial fisheries data as well as data collected using scientific research at sea;

(v)

evaluating the impact of fishing activities on the environment;

(vi)

evaluating the economic and social situation of the catching sector;

(vii)

allowing the monitoring of the prices associated with the various landings and reflecting all landings at ports inside and outside the Community, as well as imports;

(viii)

evaluating the economic and social situation of the processing and aquaculture industry on the basis of studies and samples sufficiently large to safeguard the reliability of the estimate.

2. The basic data defined in paragraph 1(viii) shall include such as the following:

(a) As regards fishing fleets:

(i)

income from sales and other revenue;

(ii)

production costs;

(iii)

data enabling the jobs at sea to be counted and classified.

(b) As regards the fish processing industry:

(i)

production expressed in volume and value terms for product categories to be determined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 30(2);

(ii)

the number of enterprises and the number of jobs;

(iii)

changes in production costs and their composition.