Survey of fishing gear waste and passively fished waste; transmission of data

Companies, corporations, institutions and authorities with passively fished waste must submit data to the State Statistical Office every year.

Online-Meldeverfahren IDEV
Entities required to report can use the IDEV online reporting system to submit reports for official statistics to the Bavarian State Office of Statistics.

For contact details of the responsible authoritiy and local valid information select under "Select location" a location.

The survey of passively fished waste takes place annually. It is an official survey of companies, corporations, institutions and authorities. If you collect or dispose of the following waste, you will receive a written request from the responsible State Statistical Office:

Waste from fishing gear
passively fished waste

You must provide information on how much waste you have collected and disposed of in a given year.

There is a legal obligation to provide information for this survey. The owners or managers of the companies, corporations and institutions or the authorities are obliged to provide information.

Reporting period and time of survey

The information must be provided for each reporting year. The survey is repeated annually. You will only receive the request to participate in the survey in the year following the reporting year.

Contents of the survey

You must provide the following information for the survey of passively fished waste:

Type and quantity of waste that you collected or disposed of in the reporting year
- Waste from fishing gear
- Passively fished waste
Type of disposal

How are the results of the survey used?

The results form the basis for national reporting in accordance with the EU directives on single-use plastic products and port reception facilities. The EU requires detailed evidence of the disposal of passively fished waste and fishing gear. Fishing gear contributes intensively to marine pollution if it ends up in the sea after use or is even deliberately disposed of at sea.

EVAS No.: 32187

You have received a letter asking you to send information to the State Statistical Office.

Required document/s

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If you have been selected for the survey, you will receive a written request to participate. In this letter, the responsible state statistical office will inform you about

the legal basis for the survey and your obligation to provide information,
the content of the survey,
the procedure for the survey,
the deadlines for responding.

Bavaria-wide supplement

The State Statistical Office will provide you with an online questionnaire for this survey on the IDEV Internet platform. IDEV (= Internet Datenerhebung im Verbund) is a secure electronic procedure for data collection. You will also receive the access data for IDEV with the written request.

As a company / public body, you are generally obliged to use the online questionnaire. In cases of hardship, companies can apply for an exemption from the online reporting obligation.

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You will receive a letter from the State Statistical Office asking you to take part in the survey. Please take part within the deadline specified there. By doing so, you will help to ensure that the results of the survey are made available to users as quickly as possible.