
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 741/2014 of 8 July 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 on the Community fishing fleet register 

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC, and in particular Article 24(4) thereof,
Whereas:

(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 lays down, inter alia, the obligations of Member States regarding the transmission of data on vessel characteristics and activity from their national registers to the Commission.

(2) In order to ensure accurate and efficient information transfer of those fleet data, it is appropriate to update Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 as regards the country codes, the codes for fishing gear and the fleet segmentation codes to be used for the transmission of such data.

(3) It is necessary to provide for a table of the country codes in order to facilitate the transmission of data pursuant to Articles 6 and 8 of the Regulation (EC) No 26/2004.

(4) Following accession of Croatia, it is necessary to update Table 3 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 concerning the codes for fishing gear by inserting a code for ‘harpoon’, which is used in the Croatian fleet as main or second gear.

(5) Table 5 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 should be updated by inserting certain fleet segment codes for outermost regions since Commission Regulation (EC) No 2104/2004, which provided for those codes, has exhausted its effects following the repeal of Council Regulation (EC) No 639/2004. For the sake of clarity, it is also appropriate to add new fleet segmentation codes for Mayotte.

(6) Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the tenth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 8 July 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 26/2004 is amended as follows:

((1)) The following Table 1a is inserted after Table 1:
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Table 1aCountry codes for Member StatesMember States Country Code
Belgique/België BEL
България BGR
Danmark DNK
Deutschland DEU
Eesti EST
Éire/Ireland IRL
Ελλάδα GRC
España ESP
France FRA
Hrvatska HRV
Italia ITA
Κύπρος CYP
Latvija LVA
Lietuva LTU
Malta MLT
Nederland NLD
Polska POL
Portugal PRT
România ROM
Slovenija SVN
Suomi/Finland FIN
Sverige SWE
United Kingdom GBR'
((2)) Table 3 is replaced by the following:


‘Table 3Code for fishing gearGear Category Gear Code Static (S) or towed (T) or mobile gear (M) Pelagic (P) or demersal (D)
Surrounding nets Purse seines PS M P
Lampara nets LA M P
Seines Beach seines SB T D/P
Danish seines SDN T D/P
Scottish seines SSC T D/P
Pair seines SPR T D/P
Trawls Beam trawl TBB T D
Bottom otter trawl OTB T D
Bottom pair trawls PTB T D
Midwater otter trawls OTM T D/P
Pelagic pair trawls PTM T D/P
Otter twin trawls OTT T D/P
Dredges Boat dredges DRB T D
Hand dredges used on board a vessel DRH T D
Mechanised dredges including suction dredges HMD T D
Lift nets Boat-operated lift nets LNB M P
Shore-operated stationary lift nets LNS M P
Gill nets and entangling nets Set (anchored) gill nets GNS S D
Driftnet GND S D/P
Encircling gill nets GNC S D/P
Trammel nets GTR S D/P
Combined trammel and gill nets GTN S D/P
Traps Pots (traps) FPO S D
Hook and lines Hand lines and pole lines (hand operated) LHP S D/P
Hand lines and pole lines (mechanised) LHM S D/P
Set longlines LLS S D
Longlines (drifting) LLD S P
Troll lines LTL M P
Grappling and Wounding Harpoons HAR M P
Gear unknown  NK  
No gear  NO  


((3)) Table 5 is replaced by the following:
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Table 5Segmentation codes1. Date of event before 31.12.2002
Fleet Segment codes
Member States MAGP codes
2. Date of event from 1.1.2003
Fleet segments Segment codes
Mainland MFL
Aquaculture AQU
Spain — outermost regions:
Canary Islands. Length < 12 m. EU waters CA1
Canary Islands. Length > 12 m. EU waters CA2
Canary Islands. Length > 12 m. International and third country waters CA3
France — outermost regions:
Réunion. Demersal and pelagic species. Length < 12 m 4FC
Réunion. Pelagic species. Length > 12 m 4FD
French Guiana. Demersal and and pelagic species. Length < 12 m 4FF
French Guiana. Shrimp vessels. 4FG
French Guiana. Pelagic species. Offshore vessels. 4FH
Martinique. Demersal and pelagic species. Length < 12 m 4FJ
Martinique. Pelagic species. Length > 12 m 4FK
Guadeloupe. Demersal and pelagic species. Length < 12 m 4FL
Guadeloupe. Pelagic species. Length > 12 m 4FM
Mayotte. Seiners 4FN
Mayotte. Mechanical long-liners < 23 m. 4FO
Mayotte. Demersal and pelagic species. Vessels < 10 m 4FP
Portugal — outermost regions:
Madeira. Demersal species. Length < 12 m 4K6
Madeira. Demersal and pelagic species. Length > 12 m 4K7
Madeira. Pelagic species. Length > 12 m 4K8
Azores. Demersal species. Length < 12 m 4K9
Azores. Demersal and pelagic species. Length > 12 m 4KA'
