Whole fish (1)

Whole fish refers to ungutted fish.

Whole fish shall be wrapped in absorbent paper and shipped in a plastic bag, chilled as mentioned above.

Whole fish may be sent to the laboratory if the temperature requirements during transportation can be fulfilled.

Whole fish may be wrapped up in paper with absorptive capacity and must finally be shipped in a plastic bag, chilled as mentioned.

Whole fish may be transported to the laboratory if the temperature requirements during transportation, as described in II.3.1, can be fulfilled.

The import into the Union of products having been the subject of the operations referred to in paragraph 2 shall be carried out subject to suspension, in part or in whole, of the Common Customs Tariff duties or subject to a special system of charges, under the conditions and within the limits of additionality fixed annually in relation to the volume of fishing possibilities deriving from the agreements in question and from their accompanying detailed rules.

Where no processing has taken place, WHOLE for whole fish.

"Where fish are intended to be eaten whole, the maximum level shall apply to the whole fish".

In case the lot to be sampled contains small fish (individual fish weighing < 1 kg), the whole fish is taken as incremental sample to form the aggregate sample.

Indicate the nature of this processing if any: GUT for gutting, HEAD for heading, FILLET for filleting, etc. Where no processing has taken place, WHOLE for whole fish.

On the basis of these arguments they requested that frozen whole fish and fillets be excluded by the proceeding.

On the basis of the above, the request that frozen whole fish and fillets should be excluded from the proceeding could not be accepted.

Regarding the whole fish and fillets, they were considered as different types of the product concerned and as such were examined in the dumping calculations and the injury assessment.

Furthermore, it was argued that cheap large trout, mostly of Finnish production, has been sold mainly for the consumer market as whole fish or fillets, while processors do not use much of it.

Specific provisions for the sampling of lots containing whole fishes

Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof

Whereas sea fisheries form the most important part of the fishing industry as a whole;

In addition, in the recent investigation(3) concerning salmon where a similar argument was made, it was determined that the product concerned included whole fish, gutted fish and various types of portion fillets, whether fresh, chilled or frozen and that such presentations of salmon constituted a single product which itself was deemed to be alike in all respects to that produced by the Community producers and sold in the Community market, and thus this case does not support the submission made.

In this respect it should be noted that in assessing whether the product concerned should be deemed to be alike to large rainbow trout produced in the Community, it was initially considered whether the various types of and presentations of large rainbow trout, i.e. fillets or whole fish, fresh or frozen, shared the same basic physical, technical and/or chemical characteristics.

A definitive anti-dumping duty is hereby imposed on imports of large rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) whether fresh, chilled or frozen, whether in the form of whole fish (with heads and gills on, gutted, weighing more than 1,2 kg each or with heads off, gilled and gutted, weighing more than 1 kg each) or in the form of fillets (weighing over 0,4 kg each), currently classifiable within CN codes 0302 11 20, 0303 21 20, 0304 10 15 and 0304 20 15, originating in Norway and the Faeroe Islands.

These prices shall be valid for the whole Community and shall be fixed for each fishing year or for each of the periods into which that year is subdivided.

For the fishing industry as a whole, the committee shall be required: - to ensure that Member States and the Commission are kept mutually informed of structural policies and in particular of measures governing sea fishing;

In point 4 "Sampling plans", the following point 4.1 "Specific provisions for the sampling of lots containing whole fishes" is inserted after Table 2:

the average of prices recorded for a significant proportion of Community output on wholesale markets or in ports during the three fishing years immediately preceding the year for which the price is fixed,

Several associations of fish processing industries argued that not enough attention was paid to the existence of different market segments (whole, fillet, roe and smoked) and different pricing on these segments.

Over the next few years the authorities also intend to move the cornerstone of street trading from the centre: the wholesale fish market and the fruit and vegetable market. A similar fate also awaits the flower market, though flowers are among the most profitable and popular articles on sale.