European Union and the United Kingdom - fisheries consultations: written record 2024

Electronic exchange of data

a) The Delegations noted that since 2021 the Parties continue sharing data collected for management and control purposes in line with the Parties’ respective legislation and Article 507 of the TCA.

b) The Parties agreed to seek suitable arrangements in the SCF for the exchange between the Parties of data for management and control purposes based on the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and electronic business (UN/CEFACT) Fisheries Language for Universal Exchange (FLUX) international standard. The Parties agreed to work in particular on the electronic exchange of aggregated catch reporting data, vessels monitoring system data, fishing activity data, vessels and authorisations data, as well as any other data identified by the Parties.