EN 17988-6:2024

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-februar-2025
Krožna zasnova ribolovnega orodja in opreme za akvakulturo - 6. del - Zahteve in
navodila za digitalizacijo informacij o orodju in komponentah
Circular design of fishing gear and aquaculture equipment - Part 6 - Requirements and
guidance for digitalization of information on gear and components
Kreislaufwirtschaft von Fischfanggeräten und Aquakulturausrüstungen - Teil 6:
Digitalisierung von Geräten und Komponenten
Circularité et recyclabilité des engins de pêche et des équipements d’aquaculture -
Partie 6 : Exigences et lignes directrices pour la dématérialisation des informations
relatives aux composants des engins de pêche et des équipements d’aquaculture
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 17988-6:2024
ICS:
13.020.20 Okoljska ekonomija. Environmental economics.
Trajnostnost Sustainability
65.150 Ribolov in ribogojstvo Fishing and fish breeding
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EN 17988-6
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
November 2024
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 13.020.20; 65.150
English Version
Circular design of fishing gear and aquaculture equipment
- Part 6: Requirements and guidelines for digitalization of
information of components of fishing gear and aquaculture
equipment.
Circularité et recyclabilité des engins de pêche et des Kreislaufdesign von Fischfanggeräten und
équipements d'aquaculture - Partie 6 : Exigences et Aquakulturausrüstungen - Teil 6: Anforderungen und
lignes directrices pour la dématérialisation des Leitfaden für die Digitalisierung von Informationen zu
informations relatives aux composants des engins de Komponenten von Fischfanggeräten und
pêche et des équipements d'aquaculture Aquakulturausrüstungen
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 30 September 2024.

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Contents Page
European foreword . 3
Introduction . 4
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 Requirements for digitalized information . 6
4.1 General. 6
4.2 Digital Product Passports (DPP) master data . 7
4.2.1 Benefits . 7
4.2.2 Unique identifier for fishing gear and aquaculture equipment – minimum
requirements . 7
4.2.3 Optional information . 7
4.3 Value chain material and information flows . 8
4.3.1 Benefits . 8
4.3.2 Guidance . 8
5 Fishing gear and aquaculture equipment labelling . 8
5.1 Identification of ownership and capacity, position, and material information . 8
5.1.1 General. 8
5.1.2 Fishing gear and aquaculture equipment identification for ownership and other
purposes . 9
5.1.3 Marking equipment for identifying position . 9
5.1.4 Digitalized material declaration for gear, equipment and components . 10
5.1.5 Examples . 10
5.2 Data exchange . 10
6 Traceability requirements and options . 11
7 Development of digital solutions . 12
7.1 Access to data . 12
7.2 Ownership of data . 12
7.3 Internet protocol (IP) sensitive and proprietary information . 12
7.4 Interoperability and data traceability . 12
7.4.1 General. 12
7.4.2 Prerequisites . 12
7.4.3 Identification requirements . 13
7.4.4 Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) recommendations . 13
7.4.5 Data sharing requirements . 13
7.4.6 Roles and responsibilities . 13
8 Implementation of digital solutions . 13
Annex A (Informative) Digitalization options for labelling and marking of fishing gear and
aquaculture equipment . 15
Bibliography . 17
European foreword
This document (EN 17988-6:2024) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 466 “Circularity
and recyclability of fishing gear and aquaculture equipment”, the secretariat of which is held by NEN.
This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by May 2025, and conflicting national standards shall be
withdrawn at the latest by May 2025.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CEN by the European
Commission (M/574). The Standing Committee of the EFTA States subsequently approves these requests
for its Member States.
This document is part of the EN 17988 series.
The EN 17988 series consists of the following parts, under the general title Circular design of fishing gear
and aquaculture equipment:
— Part 1: General requirements and guidelines
— Part 2: User manuals and labelling
— Part 3: Technical requirements and guidelines
— Part 4: Environmental and circularity requirements and guidelines
— Part 5: Circular business models
— Part 6: Requirements and guidelines for digitalization of information of components of fishing gear
and aquaculture equipment
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body.
A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.
According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the
following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North
Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United
Kingdom.
Introduction
As part of the European Green Deal, launched in 2019, the European Commission introduced measures
to move to a climate neutral and circular economy, together with a digital transition. One of the targets
in the transition to a circular economy was to reduce the amount of waste released into the environment
by decreasing the amount of waste generated, increasing the amount of waste collected and re-
introducing the materials regenerated from waste into the production of new products.
Specifically, the accumulation of plastics in marine and other aquatic environments were addressed in
two directives:
— The revised Port Reception Facilities (PRF) Directive [1] encourages fishers and aquaculturists to
bring not only their own end-of-use gear but also bring ashore abandoned, lost or otherwise
discarded (ALD) fishing gear and aquaculture equipment, thus encouraging waste to be carried back
to port.
— The Single Use Plastics (SUP) Directive [2], which lays down rules concerning different plastic
products, including fishing gear and aquaculture equipment containing plastics, and sets
requirements to the Member States to establish Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes.
Concerning fishing gear, it also contains rules on minimum national annual collection rates, together
with reporting on fishing gear placed on the market and waste fishing gear collected in ports.
In 2021, the standardization request M/574 on the circular design of fishing gear [3] was passed by the
European Commission and the parliament and accepted by CEN, which forms the basis for this series of
documents (EN 17988 series). While the term ‘fishing gear’ is used predominantly in the SUP Directive
and M/574, both documents encompass aquaculture equipment.
The purpose of this series of documents is to provide stakeholders with requirements, recommendations
and guidelines to address the different aspects of circular design of fishing gear and aquaculture
equipment containing plastics, encourage preparing for reuse and facilitate recyclability at end-of-use.
These requirements are intended to be applied from the design phase across the entire life cycle of the
fishing gear and aquaculture equipment. This includes but is not limited to: manufacturing, use,
maintenance, repair, collection, sorting, preparation for recycling, reuse, remanufacture, disposal, uptake
of recycled content and recycling.
Although this document is written for fishing gear and aquaculture equipment containing plastics, the
requirements, recommendations and guidelines are also applicable to other materials.
This series of documents does not address other important design criteria such as fishing or farming
efficiency. When implementing the requirements, recommendations and guidelines provided in these
documents, balanced trade-offs between all relevant criteria need to be taken into account.
This series of documents aims to contribute to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
[4]:
— 9 Industry, innovation, and infrastructure,
— 12 Responsible consumption and production,
— 14 Life below water, in particular target 14.1: ‘By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine
pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient
pollution.’
For a full outline of the parts of the standard,
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