Title III, Chapter II, Article 27 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2196

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Article 27Completion and electronic submission of the fishing logbook#

1.The master of a Union catching vessel shall complete and submit by electronic form the fishing logbook data in accordance with the requirements set out in Articles 14 and 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 and the instructions set out in Annex XV. Additionally, for catching vessels of 12 metres in length overall or more, the date and time at the moment the information is transmitted from the vessel to the FMC shall be reported.

2.The master of a Union catching vessel shall send a departure report to the FMC of the flag Member State before leaving a port or a landing site. This report shall be the first report of the trip being started.

3.Before arrival at port or at a landing site, the master of a Union catching vessel shall send a return to port message to the FMC of the flag Member State.

4.The master may transmit corrections to the fishing logbook data up to the last submission made before entering a port or a landing site. Masters shall ensure corrections are easily identifiable by the competent authorities. All original electronic fishing logbook data and corrections to those data shall be stored by the competent authorities of the flag Member State.

5.By way of derogation to paragraphs 2 and 3, masters of Union catching vessels of less than 12 metres in length overall shall submit the relevant data and departure message, at the latest after the last fishing operation has been completed and before the landing starts.

6.The codes given in Annex XVI shall apply to indicate, under the appropriate headings of the fishing logbook, the fishing gear used.

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analysis
means examining and modeling data to identify and investigate patterns, trends, or anomalies;
beam trawl
means a gear as defined in Article 6(16) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
business rules
means a set of predefined rules used for the purposes of validation.
collective presentation
means a presentation consisting of two or more parts extracted from the same fish;
cross-checking
means comparing data from different sources or datasets to identify and investigate inconsistencies, errors, and missing information in the data;
data validation system
means an electronic system, including the electronic database, for data validation;
electronic database
means one or more databases set up by Member States for the validation of data, in accordance with Article 109(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.
FAD
means a permanent, semi-permanent, or temporary object, structure, or device of any material, man-made or natural, which is deployed and/or tracked for the purpose of aggregating fish;
holder of a fishing licence
means a natural or legal person to whom a fishing licence has been issued;
implementation document
means a document that describes detailed rules for implementing the different UN/FLUX (Fisheries Language for Universal eXchange) standard domains for electronic data exchanges, including data submission and validation procedures, as provided by the Commission after consulting the Member States.
inspected operator
means the natural person in charge of the fishing vessel, vehicle, aircraft, hovercraft or premises being inspected, or carrying out fishing without a vessel and subject to inspection.
message
means a report in its transmission format;
other authorisations
means fishing authorisations for Union fishing vessels other than catching vessels as referred to in Article 7a of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009;
passive gear
means any fishing gear which is not towed or otherwise moved through water by human, animal or mechanical energy, such as gillnets, entangling nets, trammel nets, trap nets, driftnets, lines, including longlines, and traps, including pots and creels;
presentation
means the form into which the fish is processed while on board of the fishing vessel and prior to landing, as described in Table 1 of Annex I;
report
means information recorded by electronic means;
request
means an electronic message containing a query for a set of reports;
request for assistance
means a request addressed by one Member State to another, or by the Commission or EFCA to a Member State, related to the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 and this Regulation, in accordance with the principle of administrative cooperation set in Article 117 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009;
transportation layer
means the electronic network for fisheries data exchanges made available by the Commission to all Member States and EFCA for exchanging data in a standardised way;
validation
means performing cross-checking, analysis, and verification to ensure that data is accurate, complete, consistent, and transmitted within legal timeframes;
verification
means checking and confirming that the data meets format, quantity, and quality standards;
vessel monitoring device
means a tracking device, including a non-satellite mobile tracking device, as referred to in Article 9(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.