30.12.2006 Official Journal of the European Union L 403/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) REGULATION (EC) No 1921/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 18 December 2006 on the submission of statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1382/91 (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EURO- PEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com- munity, and in particular Article 285(1) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty ('), Whereas: (1)  Council Regulation (EEC) No 1382/91 of 21 May 1991 on the submission of data on the landings of fishery products in Member States (}) requires Member States to submit data on the quantities and average prices of fishery products landed on their territory. (2)  Experience has shown that analyses of the market for fishery products and other economic analyses would not be adversely affected if data were submitted under Com- munity legislation at yearly rather than monthly intervals. (3)  Analyses would be enhanced if data were broken down by the flag state of fishing vessels carrying out landings. (40 Regulation (EEC) No 1382/91 imposes a limit on the extent to which sampling techniques are permitted when the collection and compilation of data place an excessive burden on certain national authorities. In order to improve and simplify the system for the submission of data, it is appropriate to replace that Regulation with a new instrument. Consequently, Regulation (EEC) No 1382/91 should be repealed. (") Opinion of the European Parliament of 15 June 2006 (not yet published in the Official Journal), Council Common Position of 14 November 2006 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and Position of the European Parliament of 12 December 2006 (not yet published in the Official Journal). () OJ L 133,28.5.1991, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 oghe European Parliament and of the Council (O] L 284,31.10.2003, p. 1). (5)  Since the objective of this Regulation, namely the estab- lishment of a common legal framework for the systematic production of Community statistical data on landings of fishery products in Member States, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can there- fore be better achieved at Community level, the Com- munity may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportion- ality as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective. (6)  Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February 1997 on Community Statistics (*) provides a reference frame- work for statistics in the field of fisheries. In particular, it requires conformity with principles of impartiality, relia- bility, relevance, cost-effectiveness, statistical confidenti- ality and transparency. (7 It is important to ensure the uniform application of this Regulation and, in order to do so, to make provision for a Community procedure to help determine the imple- menting arrangements within an appropriate timescale and to make the necessary technical adaptations. (8)  The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (¥). (9)  Since the statistical data on landings of fishery products are an essential tool for the management of the Common Fisheries Policy, it is appropriate to lay down the possibi- lity of using the management procedure provided for by Decision 1999/468/EC for granting Member States tran- sitional periods for the implementation of this Regulation and derogations permitting them to exclude statistical data covering a particular sector of the fisheries industry from the national statistical data submitted. () OJ L 52,22.2.1997, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003. () O] L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (O] L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).