# Council Regulation (EC) No 43/2009 of 16 January 2009 fixing for 2009 the fishing opportunities and associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Community waters and, for Community vessels, in waters where catch limitations are required, Division 3.3: In the case a Flag State has the technical capability to send all above messages and contents in the so-called NAF-format on behalf of its operating vessels, that Flag State may — after bilateral agreement between the Flag State and the Commission — transmit this information via a secured transmission protocol to the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels. In that case, some extra information will be added — as a kind of envelope — to the transmission (after the AD information)

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

FR
m
(from; party alfa ISO-3 country code)
RN
m
(serial number of the record for the relevant year)
RD
m
(date of transmission in yyyymmdd format)
RT
m
(time of transmission in hhmm format)
Example (with data of above)
//SR//AD/XEU//FR/NOR//RN/5//RD/20051004//RT/1320//SQ/1//TM/COE//RC/IRCS//TN/1//NA/VESSEL NAME EXAMPLE//IR/NOR//XR/PO 12345//LT/+65.321//LG/-21.123//RA/04A.//OB/COD 100 HAD 300//DA/20051004//TI/1315//MA/CAPTAIN NAME EXAMPLE//ER//
The Flag State will receive a ‘return message’ specifying:
SR
m
(= start of record)
AD
m
(ISO-3 country code of Flag State)
FR
m
XEU (= to Commission of the European Communities)
RN
m
(serial number of message in current year for which a ‘return message’ is sent)
TM
m
RET (= ‘return’)
SQ
m
(serial number of original message for that vessel in current year)
RC
m
(international radio call sign mentioned in original message)
RS
m
(return status — ACK or NAK)
RE
m
(return error number)
DA
m
(date of transmission in yyyymmdd format)
TI
m
(time of transmission in hhmm format)
ER
m
(= end of record)

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/43/annex/VI/division/3/division/3.3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-43/annex-VI/division-3/division-3.3
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