Commission Regulation (EC) No 2431/98 of 11 November 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 2211/94 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 as regards the notification of the prices of imported fishery products
12. 11. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 302/13 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2431/98 of 11 November 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 2211/94 laying down detailed rules for the imple- mentation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 as regards the notification of the prices of imported fishery products THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the common organisation of the in fishery and aquaculture products (1), as last market amended by Regulation (EC) No 3318/94 (2), and in particular Articles 22 and 23 thereof, Whereas the arrangements for rapid and reliable trans- mission of the data needed to monitor the reference prices must be laid down; Whereas the list of representative markets and ports where imports are recorded must be updated to take better account of the actual import volumes; Whereas the data sent by fax to the Commission are generated electronically; whereas the national administra- tions responsible for collecting and transmitting these computerised data have the technology to send them by electronic mail; whereas, therefore, this form of transmis- sion should be definitively introduced and the message format should be defined; whereas Commission Regula- tion (EC) No 2211/94 (3) should be amended to this end; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fishery Products, Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 2211/94 is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 2(1) is replaced by the following: ‘1. The Member States shall notify to the Commis- sion the free-at-frontier prices of those goods listed in Annexes I, II, III, IV and V to Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 for which a reference price is fixed and which are released into free circulation. This information shall be broken down by species and product, category and commercial presentation, as well as by day of presentation of the import declaration. '; 2. Article 2(4) is replaced by the following: ‘4. The notification shall be sent before the 25th day of each month or the first working day thereafter for goods released into free circulation between the first and the 15th day of the month, and the 10th day of the following month or the first working day thereafter for goods released into free circulation between the 16th and the last day of the month. The notification shall be sent to the Commission by electronic mail in the form indicated in Annex II. '; 3. the Annex is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1999. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 11 November 1998. For the Commission Emma BONINO Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. (2) OJ L 350, 31. 12. 1994, p. 15. (3) OJ L 238, 13. 9. 1994, p. 1. L 302/14 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 11. 98 ANNEX ‘ANNEX I Representative markets and ports of importation BELGIUM DENMARK Oostende Zeebrugge Antwerpen Hirtshals Skagen Neksø Hanstholm GERMANY All customs offices involved in the release of goods into free circulation GREECE SPAIN FRANCE IRELAND ITALY Athinai Kavala Piraeus Thessaloniki Hêraklion Ioannina Patras La Coruña Vigo Marín Barcelona Irún Bilbao Madrid Valencia Alicante Algeciras Cádiz La Junquera Las Palmas Bayonne Bordeaux Boulogne-sur-Mer Fécamp La Rochelle-Rochefort Le Havre Lorient Marseille Aéroport de Roissy Marché d’intérêt national de Rungis Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion Saint-Malo Dublin Killybegs Genova Livorno Salerno La Spezia Ancona Fortezza Bari Roma 1o centrale Palermo 12. 11. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 302/15 NETHERLANDS PORTUGAL Amsterdam Rotterdam Scheveningen Mainland Viana do Castelo Porto Aveiro Peniche Lisboa PortimÑo OlhÑo Autonomous region of Madeira Funchal Autonomous region of the Azores Horta (ilha do Faial) Praia da Vitória (ilha Terceira) Ponta Delgada (ilha de S. Miguel) UNITED KINGDOM FINLAND SWEDEN Grimsby Aberdeen Hull Peterhead Helsinki Tornio Turku Svinesund Karlskrona LUXEMBOURG All customs offices involved in the release of goods into free circulation AUSTRIA All customs offices involved in the release of goods into free circulation 1. Data format ANNEX II Registration No Data involved Identification of the type of data Format Size Code 1st 2nd 3rd Message identification :TTL; character Member State :RMS; character Date of the first day of the period in question :RPP; date DDMMYYYY 4th et seq. — Date of importation :DAT; date — Country of ment (not obligatory) consign- — Country of origin — Species — Combined Nomencla- ture and TARIC codes DDMMYYYY numeric numeric character character 4 3 8 8 3 3 3 12 2211 Table 1 (1) (1) Table 7 TARIC Codes (2) L 302/16 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 11. 98 Registration No Data involved Identification of the type of data Format Size Code — Freshness — Size — Presentation — Conservation — Value — Currency code — Quantity (kg) character character character character 3 3 3 3 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5 Actual number (4) 15. 4 (3) character 3 Table 6 Actual number (4) 15. 4 (1) Country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States (Commission Regulation (EC) No 895/97 (OJ L 128, 21. 5. 1997, p. 1)). (2) Integrated Tariff of the European Communities (TARIC) (3) Value in national currency. (4) 10 figures in front of the decimal point, a decimal point as separator and four figures after the decimal point. The total ( OJ C 102 and C 102A, 1. 4. 1997). length of the field is 15 positions. 2. Message format The file is a text file made up of four separate records: — each item of data is separated from the following item by a semi-colon, — each message line is followed by a carriage return. It looks as follows: :TTL;2211 :RMS;C(3) :RPP;DDMMYYYY :DAT;DDMMYYYY; N(3); N(3); C(3); C(12); C(3); C(3); C(3); C(3); N(15. 4); C(3); N(15. 4) :DAT;DDMMYYYY; N(3); N(3); C(3); C(12); C(3); C(3); C(3); C(3); N(15. 4); C(3); N(15. 4) :DAT;DDMMYYYY; N(3); N(3); C(3); C(12); C(3); C(3); C(3); C(3); N(15. 4); C(3); N(15. 4). 3. Codes Table 1. Member State codes Member State Austria Belgium Germany Denmark Spain Finland France United Kingdom Greece Ireland Italy Code AUT BEL DEU DNK ESP FIN FRA GBR GRC IRL ITA 12. 11. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 302/17 Code LUX NLD PRT SWE Code V A B E Member State Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal Sweden Table 2. “Freshness” codes Freshness E (live) A (quality A) B (quality B) Extra (quality extra) NA Not applicable Table 3. Size codes Code Size 1 2 3 4 5 6 B21 B27 M10 M11 M13 P08 P10 P21 P27 NA Size 1 Size 2 Size 3 Size 4 Size 5 Size 6 = 1,1 kg : 2,1 kg = 1,33 kg : 2,7 kg < 10 kg : 1,1 kg : 1,33 kg = 800 g ; 10 kg = 2,1 kg = 2,7 kg Not applicable L 302/18 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 11. 98 Table 4. Presentation codes Code Presentation 1 2 3 5 9 11 12 21 22 23 24 25 26 31 32 51 61 62 63 70 71 72 Code F V R C CU S FC FR Whole Fillets Gutted with head Pieces and other flesh Acceptable presentations other than whole or gutted, with gills With or without head Head off or tail Standard fillets, with bones Boneless fillets Fillets, with skin Fillets, without skin Sides Fillets in minced blocks :4 kg Gilled and gutted Gutted and without head Minced blocks Cleaned Cylinders Tubes Cleaned, with head or whole All acceptable presentations for this species All acceptable presentations other than fillets, pieces and other flesh Table 5. Conservation codes Presentation Fresh Live Chilled Frozen Cooked in water Salted Fresh or frozen Fresh or chilled 12. 11. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 302/19 Table 6. Currency codes Currency Belgian franc Danish krone German mark Greek drachma Euros Portuguese escudo French franc Finnish mark Dutch guilder Irish pound Italian lira Austrian schilling Spanish peseta Swedish crown Pound sterling Luxembourg franc Table 7. Inter-institutional species codes Species Clupea harengus Sardina pilchardus Squalus acanthias Scyliorhinus spp. Sebastes spp. Gadus morhua Pollachius virens Melanogrammus aeglefinus Merlangius merlangus Molva spp. Scomber scombrus Scomber japonicus Engraulis spp. Pleuronectes platessa Code BEF DKK DEM GRD EUR PTE FRF FIM NLG IEP ITL ATS ESP SEK GBP LUF Code HER PIL DGS SCL RED COD POK HAD WHG LNZ MAC MAS ENR PLE L 302/20 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 11. 98 Code HKE LEZ BRA MNZ CSH CRE NEP DAB FLE ALB ROA CTC SOO PRA GHL DEC PAX HKX HKP DPS PEN SQN SQR SQL SQO SQC SQA SQE SQI SQE ILL CTR OCZ YFT Species Merluccius merluccius Lepidorhombus spp. Brama spp. Lophius spp. Crangon crangon Cancer pagurus Nephrops norvegicus Limanda limanda Platichthys flesus Thunnus alalunga Rossia macrosoma Sepia officinalis Solea spp. Pandalus borealis Rheinhardtius hippoglossoides Dentex dentex Pagellus spp. Merluccius spp. Merluccius hubbsi Parapenaeus longirostris Penaeus spp. Loligo patagonica Loligo vulgaris Loligo pealei Loligo opalescens Loligo spp. Illex argentinus Ommastrephes sagittatus Illex illecebrosus Todarodes sagittatus sagittatus Illex spp. Sepiola rondeleti Octopus spp. Thunnus albacares 12. 11. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 302/21 Code SKJ TUS FCP SAL GRC CDZ POC MAZ ALK SWO PCO Species Katsuwonus pelamis Thunnus spp. and Euthynnus spp. excluding Thunnus thunnus and T. obesus Cyprinus carpio Salmo salar Gadus ogac Gadus spp. Boreogadus saida Scomber scombrus, japonicus, Orcynopsis unicolor Theragra chalcogramma Xiphias gladius Gadus marocephalus'