Regulation (EU) Nº 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products, amending Council Regulations (EC) Nº 1184/2006 and (EC) Nº 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulation (EC) Nº 104/2000 regulates in its Chapter IV information to the consumer, establishes in its Article 37 the obligation of the Member States to draw up and publish a list of accepted commercial names in their respective territories together with their scientific names.
Article 37 also provides that any change to the list of commercial names accepted by a Member State in its territory must be notified immediately to the Commission, which shall inform the other Member States thereof.

During 2017, new species have been marketed in the Spanish market, but there have also been simplified and modified some of the species in the list. In consequence it has been necessary to revise the old list published in the Resolución de 8 de marzo de 2017, de la Secretaría General de Pesca, por la que se establece y se publica el listado de denominaciones comerciales de especies pesqueras y de acuicultura admitidas en España, al objeto de incluir la totalidad de cambios habidos y aprobados por la Subdirección General de Economía Pesquera.

Due to all above mentioned a new list of the commercial denomination of permitted fishing and aquaculture species in Spain has been established within the annex of that disposition, which was modified by Corrección de errores de la Resolución de 26 de enero de 2018, de la Secretaría General de Pesca, por la que se publica el listado de denominaciones comerciales de especies pesqueras y de acuicultura admitidas en España, published on 9th of March.

Our Consulting Department can support every company who needs to review their labels in order to ensure the correct adaptation to the new regulation.

Source: Mérieux NutriSciences Spain