Commission Regulation (EC) No 1306/2008 of 17 December 2008 fixing the Community selling prices for the fishery products listed in Annex II to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 for the 2009 fishing year
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1306/2008of 17 December 2008fixing the Community selling prices for the fishery products listed in Annex II to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 for the 2009 fishing year THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17 December 1999 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture productsOJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22., and in particular Article 25(1) and (6) thereof,Whereas:(1)A Community selling price is to be fixed for each of the products listed in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 before the beginning of the fishing year, at a level at least equal to 70 % and not exceeding 90 % of the guide price.(2)Council Regulation (EC) No 1299/2008See page 1 of this Official Journal. fixes the guide prices for the 2009 fishing year for all the products concerned.(3)Market prices vary considerably depending on the species and how the products are presented, particularly in the case of squid and hake.(4)Conversion factors should therefore be fixed for the different species and presentations of frozen products landed in the Community in order to determine the price level that trigger the intervention measure provided for in Article 25(2) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000.(5)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fishery Products,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1The Community selling prices, as referred to in Article 25(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000, applicable during the 2009 fishing year for the products listed in Annex II to that Regulation and the presentations and conversion factors to which they relate are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.It shall apply from 1 January 2009.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 17 December 2008.For the CommissionJoe BorgMember of the CommissionANNEX
Selling prices and conversion factorsForms of commercial presentation:whole, not cleanedproduct which has not undergone any treatmentcleanedproduct which has at least been guttedtubesquid body which has at least been gutted and had the head removedSquid (Loligo spp.)
SpeciesPresentationConversion factorIntervention levelSelling price(EUR/tonne)
Greenland halibut(Reinhardtius hippoglossoides)Whole or gutted, with or without head1,00,851662
Hake(Merluccius spp.)Whole or gutted, with or without head1,00,851017
Individual fillets
—with skin1,00,851261
—skinless1,10,851387
Sea-bream(Dentex dentex and Pagellus spp.)Whole or gutted, with or without head1,00,851321
Swordfish(Xiphias gladius)Whole or gutted, with or without head1,00,853398
Shrimps and prawns PenaeidaeFrozen
(a)Parapenaeus Longirostris1,00,853427
(b)Other Penaeidae1,00,856712
Cuttlefishes(Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma and Sepiola rondeletti)Frozen1,00,851661
(a)Loligo patagonica—whole, not cleaned1,000,851023
—cleaned1,200,851227
(b)Loligo vulgaris—whole, not cleaned2,500,852556
—cleaned2,900,852965
Octopus(Octopus spp.)Frozen1,000,851856
Illex argentinus—whole, not cleaned1,000,80695
—tube1,700,801182