CHAPTER IICOLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF DATA IN THE FRAMEWORK OF MULTIANNUAL ... PROGRAMMES

SECTION 4Data management process

Article 13Data storage

F1A fisheries administration must:

  1. (a)

    ensure that primary data collected under national work plans are safely stored in computerised databases and take all necessary measures to ensure that they are treated as confidential;

  2. (b)

    ensure that metadata relating to the primary socioeconomic data collected under national work plans are safely stored in computerised databases;

  3. (c)

    take all necessary technical measures to protect such data against any accidental or illicit destruction, accidental loss, deterioration, or unauthorised consultation or distribution.

Article 14Data quality control and validation

1.

F2A fisheries administration is responsible for the quality and completeness of the primary data collected under national work plans, and for the detailed and aggregated data derived therefrom which are transmitted to end-users of scientific data.

2.

F3A fisheries administration must ensure that:

(a)

primary data collected under national work plans are properly checked for errors by appropriate quality control procedures;

(b)

detailed and aggregated data derived from primary data collected under national work plans are validated before their transmission to end-users of scientific data;

F4(c)

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