# Council Decision of 9 June 2011 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and the provisional application of the Protocol agreed between the European Union and the Republic of Cape Verde setting out the fishing opportunities and the financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the two parties currently in force (2011/405/EU), Appendix 4: Format of VMS message position


COMMUNICATION OF VMS MESSAGES TO CAPE VERDE
POSITION REPORT
Data Element
Code
Mandatory or Optional?
Content
Start record
SR
O
System detail – indicates start of record
Addressee
AD
O
Message detail – addressee. Alpha-3 ISO country code
From
FR
O
Message detail – sender. Alpha-3 ISO country code
Flag State
FS
F
Type of message
TM
O
Message detail – message type ‘POS’
Radio call sign
RC
O
Vessel detail – international radio call sign of vessel
Contracting Party internal reference number
IR
F
Vessel detail – unique Contracting Party number (flag State ISO3 code followed by number)
External registration number
XR
O
Vessel detail – number marked on side of vessel
Latitude
LA
O
Vessel position detail – position in degrees and minutes N/S DDMM (WGS84)
Longitude
LO
O
Vessel position detail – position in degrees and minutes E/W DDMM (WGS84)
Course
CO
O
Vessel course 360° scale
Speed
SP
O
Vessel speed in tenths of knots
Date
DA
O
Vessel position detail – date of record of UTC position (YYYYMMDD)
Time
TI
O
Vessel position detail – time of record of UTC position (HHMM)
End record
ER
O
System detail – indicates end of record
Character set: ISO 8859.1
Each data transmission is structured as follows:
a double slash (//) and field code indicate the start of the message,
a single slash (/) separates the field code and the data.
Optional data elements must be inserted between the start and end of the record.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/405/schedule/ANNEX/appendix/Appendices to this Annex/appendix/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-405/schedule-ANNEX/appendix-Appendices to this Annex/appendix-4
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