Assist AB was one of the first who developed systems for electronic sales notes. Please contact us if you want to facilitate the registration of sales notes from first buyers.

Background

Within EU all sales of fish to first buyers must be reported to competent authorities within 48 hours, with so called sales notes.

In Sweden this information is reported either through a document sent to Swedish Fishery board or through electronic reporting.

The electronic report undergoes certain control routines to insure the quality of the information.

Reflections

During implementation of  manual or automatic systems for sales notes practical difficulties can sometimes occur. The reason for this can be the rather large part of 'black' handling and sales of fish which will be discovered through the registration of these sales notes.

For the authorities it is quite simple to compare the data from landing/logbook with the data from sales through a crosschecking function between the different information sources.

That different countries interprets and treats EU's regulations differently doesn't help the management for the systems. Germany has for example abolished the middle part the landing declaration. This has been compensated with the information from the sales. They have managed this because the sales are very closely linked to the landings.

It is important that the total information received from the sales notes are used for quota management, but it is equally important that the quota management also is based on the information not received on sales notes.

Experience in this area

We have:

• Developed a system for manual and electronic sales notes in Sweden.

• Developed a system for scanning of sales notes in Sweden.

• Participated in development of a system for registration of sales notes in Latvia.

During 2005-2007 we are working with:

• A project in Turkey where we together with the turkish authorities have constructed a template for sales notes and also structured a system for this.