17.8.2001 Official Journal of the European Communities L 222/53 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1639/2001 of 25 July 2001 establishing the minimum and extended Community programmes for the collection of data in the fisheries sector and laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 15432000 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1543/2000, of 29 June 2000 establishing a Community framework for the collection and management of the fisheries data needed to conduct the common fisheries policy (!), and in particular Articles 5(1) and 8(1) thereof, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EC) No 1543/2000 establishes a Community framework for the collection and management of data needed to evaluate the situation of the fishery resources and the fisheries sector. To this end, it stipulates that Member States set up national programmes for the collection and management of fisheries data in accordance with ~Community programmes. (20 It is therefore necessary to establish a minimum Community programme covering the information strictly necessary for the scientific evaluations and to establish an extended Community programme which also includes information likely to improve in a decisive way the scientific evaluations. (3)  The information required for each programme should be collected in the form of evaluation modules covering fishing capacities and fishing effort, catches and, finally, the economic situation of the sector. (4)  The Member States' programmes for the collection of data for scientific evaluations should be compatible with the collection of data for the management of other aspects of the common fisheries policy and with the collection of data pursuant to the Member States' obligations to the Community's statistical programme. (5) Rules relating to the transmission of, and access to, the data, including with regard to confidentiality, as well as rules relating to technical modifications and exemptions to the Community programmes, should be set out. Procedures related to the monitoring of the national programmes should also be established. () OJ L 176, 15.7.2000, p. 1. (6)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Subject matter The minimum and the extended Community programmes referred to in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1543/2000 are hereby established as set out in the Annex. This Regulation also lays down certain detailed rules for the data to be collected under the Member States' national programmes. Article 2 Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: 1. ‘segment’” means a group of vessels as homogeneous as possible in terms of physical characteristics and of use of fishing gear resulting from a partition of the segments contained in the fourth multiannual guidance programme (MAGP IV); 2. ‘commercial fishing fleet’ means vessels registered and licensed, according to Council Regulation No 3690/93 (3) or otherwise authorised to fish for the purpose of commercial exploitation of fisheries; information on which Member States should provide to the Community's fishing vessel register under Commission Regulation No 2090/98 (); 3. ‘recreational and game fisheries’ means all fishing activities not conducted for commercial fishing purposes; 4. ‘primary data’ means data associated to individual vessels, natural or legal persons or individual samples; 5. ‘effective fishing power’ means the estimation of the fishing power of vessels by a comparison of the catches made by those vessels; — <> O] L 341, 31.12.1993, p. 93. 0J L 266, 1.10.1998, p. 27. — [