# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 404/2011 of 8 April 2011 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy, Article 49: Conversion factors

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

1. For the completion and submission of fishing logbooks as referred to in Articles 14 and 15 of the Control Regulation the ... conversion factors set out in Annexes XIII, XIV and XV shall apply to convert stored or processed fish weight into live fish weight. They shall apply to fisheries products on board or transhipped or landed by United Kingdom fishing vessels.
2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where Regional Fisheries Management Organisations, of which the United Kingdom is a contracting party or cooperating non-contracting party, for its regulatory area or a third country with whom the United Kingdom has an agreement to fish, for the waters under its sovereignty or jurisdiction, have established conversion factors, those factors shall apply.
3. Where no conversion factors as referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 exist for a given species and presentation, the conversion factor adopted by the a fisheries administration shall apply.
4. Without prejudice to paragraph 2 the competent authorities of a fisheries administration shall use the ... conversion factors referred to in paragraph 1 when calculating the live weight of transhipments and landings in order to monitor the quota uptake.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/404/article/49 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-404/article-49
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