Title VII, Chapter I, Section 2, Article 71 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2196

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Article 71Requests for information#

1.At the request of an applicant Member State, of the Commission or EFCA, a Member State shall supply any relevant information necessary to establish whether an infringement of the rules of the common fisheries policy has been committed or whether there is a reasonable suspicion it may be committed. That information shall be supplied via the single authority as referred to in Article 68.

2.At the request of the applicant Member State, of the Commission or EFCA, the requested Member State shall carry out the appropriate administrative enquiries concerning operations which constitute or appear to the applicant to constitute an infringement of the rules of the common fisheries policy, in particular serious infringements referred to in Article 90(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009. The requested Member State shall communicate the results of such administrative enquiries to the applicant Member State and to the Commission or EFCA.

3.At the request of the applicant Member State, of the Commission or EFCA, the requested Member State may permit a competent official of the applicant Member State to accompany the officials of the requested Member State, the Commission or EFCA, in the course of administrative enquiries referred to in paragraph 2. In so far as national provisions on criminal proceedings restrict certain acts to officials specifically designated by national law, the officials of the applicant Member State shall not take part in such acts. They are also prohibited from participating in searches of premises or the formal questioning of persons under criminal law. The officials of the applicant Member States present in the requested Member State shall at any time be able to present written authority stating their identity and their official functions.

4.At the request of the applicant Member State, the requested Member State shall supply it with any document or certified true copies in its possession which relates to an infringement of the rules of the common fisheries policy.

5.Requests for information and their replies shall be made using the standard form set out in Annex VIII.

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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.