1.10.98 Official Journal of the European Communities L 266/27 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2090/98 of 30 September 1998 concerning the fishing vessel register of the Community THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92 of 20 December 1992, establishing a Community system of fisheries and aquaculture ('), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1181/98 (3, and in particular Article 13 thereof, Whereas the procedures for communicating information about the characteristics and identification features of EU tishing vessels to be used in connection with Community legislation should be harmonised and rationalised,; Whereas for the application of the Common Fisheries Policy it is appropriate to create a single reference data- base on the characteristics of vessels in the Community tishing fleet; whereas this database should be maintained independently of other applications; Whereas the characteristics and external markings that are recorded in the database should be in accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) 2930/86 of 22 September 1986 defining characteristics for fishing vessels (°), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 3259/94 (*), and with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1381/87 of 20 May 1987 estab- lishing detailed rules concerning the marking and docu- mentation of fishing vessels (°); Whereas it is therefore necessary to repeal Regulation (EC) No 109/94 of 19 January 1994 concerning the tishing vessel register of the Community (°), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 493/96 ('); Whereas 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 The fishing vessel register of the Community, hereafter referred to as ‘the register, concerns all Community NS SN NN N < 389, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. 164, 9. 6. 1998, p. 1. 274, 25. 9. 1986, p. 1. 339, 29. 12. 1994, p. 11. 132, 21. 5. 1987, p. 9. 19, 22. 1. 1994, p. 5. 72, 21. 3. 1996, p. 12. SN 35 ASASASASASASAS: | onll ol ol ol ol ol o8 fishing vessels as defined by Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92. Article 2 The register shall contain: — the data to be communicated for each Community tishing vessel resulting from censuses undertaken by each Member State on its fleet, from 1 January 1989, or in special cases and with the agreement of the Commission, from a later date, — all the changes which have occurred since the censuses where they affect the data. Article 3 Each Member State shall communicate information relating to events required by Annexes I to V by digital transfer over a telecommunications network at the same time as the event is recorded by the authorities of the Member State concerned. The Commission shall acknowledge receipt of messages as soon as they have been validated in the database. Any registration of new data or correction of erroneous data concerning the characteristics and/or identification features of a vessel must be in accordance with the proce- dures laid down in this Regulation. Article 4 Corrections to erroneous information contained in the register shall be forwarded to the Commission in accord- ance with the detailed rules set out in Annexes I to V within 30 days of the date on which the error is detected. Article 5 The data communicated pursuant to this Regulation shall be used as reference data in connection with Community legislation, subject to the verification of their accuracy by the services of the Commission. The link between such uses and the database on the Community register of fishing vessels shall be the internal number referred to in Annex I A Member State shall have access to the data held in the Community register of fishing vessels that concern its own fleet.