25. 3. 95 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 67/33 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 20 March 1995 concerning the implementation of the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2930/86 defining the characteristics of fishing vessels (95/84/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2930/86 of 22 September 1986 defining the charcteristics of fishing vessels (), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 3259/94 (3, and in particular Article 4 thereof and the Annex thereto, Whereas it is appropriate to take into account the situa- tions in the different Member States regarding the proce- dures and methods for the measurement of the tonnage of their fleets ; Whereas the new deadlines agreed by the Council to ensure the remeasurement of small fishing vessels with a length of less than 24 metres must be used to ensure a gradual and balanced implementation of the formulae and operations linked to the remeasurement; whereas it is therefore appropriate that annual intermediate objectives should be fixed to ensure that those operations are gradu- ally accomplished ; Whereas in the meantime it is necessary to have estimates of the gross tonnage of the Community fleet made available before the deadline fixed for the mid-term review of the multiannual guidance programmes for the period 1993-1996 defined by Commission decisions (%), Whereas rationalization at the level of each Member State and harmonization at Community level of the units of tonnage measurement are amongst the conditions for the effective implementation of the multiannual guidance () OJ No L 274, 25. 9. 1986, p. 1. () OJ No L 339, 29. 12. 1994, p. 11. () OJ No L 401, 31. 12. 1992, p. 3 ff. programmes for the period 1993-1996, under the trans- parent conditions which are needed for supervising com- pliance with the objectives ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The values of the functions a,, a, and a; set out in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2930/86 are fixed in accordance with the tables in Annex I to this Decision. Article 2 Each Member State will forward to the Commission before 15 March 1995 the lists of vessels by segment of their multiannual guidance programme, together with their gross tonnages (GT), measured, in the case of vessels of more than 24 metres, between perpendiculars which do not undertake international voyages, and estimated, in the case of the vessels of less than 24 metres in length, between perpendiculars. Article 3 The compilation of the parameters of the 1969 London Convention and their application to small vessels of less than 15 metres in overall length for which the parameters B; and T; are not available will be carried out progressively in accordance with the timetable set out in Annex 2.