Council Regulation (EC) No 861/2006 (repealed)Show full title

SECTION 2 Procedures in the area of data collection

Article 22 Introductory provision

The Community financial contribution to the expenditure incurred by the Member States for the collection and management of the basic fisheries data referred to in Article 9 shall be provided in accordance with the procedures set out in this Section.

Article 23 Programming

1. A Community programme shall be defined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 30(2), covering the essential information needed for scientific evaluations.

2. Each Member State shall draw up a national programme of collection and management of data. The programme shall describe both the collection of detailed data and the processing needed to produce aggregated data in accordance with the objectives set out in Article 5.

3. Each Member State shall include in its national programme the elements relating to it as foreseen under the Community programme drawn-up under paragraph 1.

4. Member States may apply to the Community for financial assistance for those parts of their national programmes that correspond to the elements of the Community programme with which they are concerned.

Article 24 Commission decision

1. On the basis of the programmes submitted by the Member States, decisions on the Community financial contribution to the national programmes shall be taken each year, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 30(2).

2. The decisions referred to in paragraph 1 shall give priority to the actions which are most appropriate in order to improve the collection of data necessary for the CFP.

3. The decisions referred to in paragraph 1 shall fix:

(a) the global amount of the financial contribution to be granted to each Member State for the actions referred to in Article 9;

(b) the rate of the financial contribution;

(c) any condition applying to the financial contribution arising from Community rules.