Article 2
1. The Council, acting by qualified majority, shall decide to which third countries' fleets the information system is to be jointly applied. 2. The decision referred to in paragraph 1 shall specify the type of cargo shipping to which the information system is to apply, the date of its introduction, the intervals at which the information is to be provided and which of the types of information listed in the second paragraph of Article 1 are to be collected. 3. Each Member State shall forward to the Commission, periodically or at the request of the latter, the information produced by its information system. 4. The Commission shall collate the information for the Community as a whole. Article 4 of Council Decision 77/587/EEC of 13 September 1977 setting up a consultation procedure on relations between Member States and third countries in shipping matters and on action relating to such matters in international organisations ( 5 ) shall apply to that information.