Vessel Register
To construct vessel registers have become
one of Nautic Assist's largest specialties. We have participated in several
projects for construction of vessel registers in several countries both within
and outside of EU.
Background
Each EU country has its own fishing vessel
register. The contents of these registers is reported to EU, who collects all
vessel registers from all EU countries and puts them together in a register over
the fishing fleet of EU.
Through the years quite a number of
changes have been made to the regulations that regulates the vessel registers of
EU. The latest regulation 26/2004 has been valid since 1
September 2004 and regulates the information that has to be sent
to EU quarterly. Even here new changes are going to take place.
Reflections
Now when the national database is sent to EU four times per year, the result is an acceptable correspondence between the registers in the member states and the central EU register. Of course the member states should send directly when a new vessel is registered in the state, but that is not always the case. This ought to be improved.
There are still
some strange demands in the system. The time when a vessel becomes inactive,
tonnage on open vessels, contradictive demands in the regulation regarding gears
etc.
On several areas the regulation has been simplified thus making it
easier to construct a system for reporting and registration.
During the years we have constructed vessel registers in 10 countries in Europe and
Asia.