Supply of ERS Training

Background / Scope

EC Council Regulation No. 1224/2009 sets out the requirements for fishing vessels to send fishing activity data electronically It applies to all 12m and over vessels who have to transmit once a day.

To meet this EU obligation, the UK Fisheries Administrations have undertaken a process for accrediting electronic logbook reporting software systems. Only such systems that have been approved by the UK Fisheries Administrations comply with the requirements and vessel operators must only use software systems from the approved list.

Skippers and operators of fishing vessels are obliged to use these systems, the fitting of which on board vessels has been grant aided. While an initial round of training has been supplied to enable skippers and operators to bring these systems into service, operational practice has demonstrated that this was in many cases inadequate.

Additional training is to be provided shall enable recipients to become familiar with the system to enable him or her to understand the following subject matters as required and to be able to undertake all practical actions to enable them to comply with the requirement of electronic reporting:

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