Product Codes
Product Presentation Codes and Processing Codes are established in the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 404/2011. Operators must use these codes to describe the presentation and processed state of fisheries products.
Only codes for product presentations commonly used in Ireland have been included in the table below for brevity. For a full list of codes, please use the legislation linked above and referenced in the table headers below.
Table 1 – Codes for product presentations commonly used in Ireland and their relevant descriptions. For a full list of codes, please refer to Annex 1 of Regulation 404/2011.
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3-Alpha Product Presentation Code
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Description
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WHL
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Whole (no processing)
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GUT
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Gutted (all guts removed)
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GUH
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Gutted & headed
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GUS
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Gutted, headed & skinned
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GHT
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Gutted, headed & tailed
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TAL
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Tails only
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FIL
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Filleted (headed, gutted, tailed and boxes removed. 2 fillets per fish)
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FIS
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Filleted and skinned fillets
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HEA
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Headed (heads removed)
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SKI
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Skinned
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WNG
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Wings only
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Table 2 – Processing states and their corresponding three letter codes.
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Code
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State
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ALI
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Alive
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BOI
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Boiled
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DRI
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Dried
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FRE
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Fresh
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FRO
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Frozen
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SAL
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Salted
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