Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 195/2012

of 8 March 2012

fixing the Union selling prices for the fishery products listed in Annex II to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 for the 2012 fishing year

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17 December 1999 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products1, and in particular Article 25(1) and (6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

A Union selling price is to be fixed for each of the products listed in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 before the beginning of the fishing year, at a level at least equal to 70 % and not exceeding 90 % of the guide price.

(2)
Council Regulation (EU) No 1388/20112 fixes the guide prices for the 2012 fishing year for all the products concerned.
(3)

Market prices vary considerably depending on the species and how the products are presented, particularly in the case of squid and hake.

(4)

Conversion factors should therefore be fixed for the different species and presentations of frozen products landed in the Union in order to determine the price level that trigger the intervention measure provided for in Article 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000.

(5)

In order not to hinder the operation of the intervention system in the year 2012, this Regulation should apply retroactively from 1 January 2012.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fishery Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Union selling prices, as referred to in Article 25(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000, applicable during the 2012 fishing year for the products listed in Annex II to that Regulation and the presentations and conversion factors to which they relate are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2012.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 March 2012.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel Barroso

ANNEX

SELLING PRICES AND CONVERSION FACTORS

Species

Presentation

Conversion factor

Intervention level

Selling price(EUR/tonne)

Greenland halibut

(Reinhardtius hippoglossoides)

Whole or gutted, with or without head

1,0

0,85

1 661

Hake

(Merluccius spp.)

Whole or gutted, with or without head

1,0

0,85

1 068

Individual fillets

—

with skin

1,0

0,85

1 299

—

skinless

1,1

0,85

1 429

Sea-bream

(Dentex dentex and Pagellus spp.)

Whole or gutted, with or without head

1,0

0,85

1 242

Swordfish

(Xiphias gladius)

Whole or gutted, with or without head

1,0

0,85

3 518

Shrimps and prawns

Penaeidae

Frozen

(a)

Parapenaeus Longirostris

1,0

0,85

3 530

(b)

Other Penaeidae

1,0

0,85

6 641

Cuttlefishes

(Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma and Sepiola rondeletti)

Frozen

1,0

0,85

1 669

Squid (Loligo spp.)

(a)

Loligo patagonica

—

whole, not cleaned

1,0

0,85

1 012

—

cleaned

1,2

0,85

1 215

(b)

Loligo vulgaris

—

whole, not cleaned

2,5

0,85

2 531

—

cleaned

2,9

0,85

2 936

Octopus

(Octopus spp.)

Frozen

1,0

0,85

1 892

Illex argentinus

—

whole, not cleaned

1,0

0,8

719

—

tube

1,7

0,8

1 223

Forms of commercial presentation:

  • whole, not cleaned

    product which has not undergone any treatment

  • cleaned

    product which has at least been gutted

  • tube

    squid body which has at least been gutted and had the head removed