Council Regulation (EC) No 1936/2001Show full title

Article 3 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

(a)

‘boarding’: the boarding of a fishing vessel within an organisation's area of competence by one or more authorised inspectors in order to make an inspection;

(b)

‘transhipment’: unloading of any quantity of highly migratory fish and/or products from such fish from on board a fishing vessel to another vessel either at sea or in port, without the products having been recorded by a port [F1 state] as landed;

(c)

‘landing’: unloading of any quantity of highly migratory fish and/or products from such fish from on board a fishing vessel to port or to land;

(d)

‘infringement’: any presumed act committed or omitted by a fishing vessel that is recorded in an inspection report and gives serious reason for suspecting a breach of the provisions of this Regulation or any other Regulation transposing a recommendation adopted by a regional organisation for one of the zones indicated in Article 2;

(e)

‘vessel of a non-Contracting Party’: vessel observed and identified as engaged in fishing activities in one of the zones specified in Article 2 that is flying the flag of a country that is not a Contracting Party to the relevant regional organisation;

(f)

‘stateless vessel’: vessel for which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting it to be without nationality[F2 ;]

(g)

[F3 ‘fattening’: raising of individuals in cages to increase their weight or fat content with a view to marketing;

(h)

‘caging’: placing of wild individuals of any size in closed structures (cages) for fattening;

(i)

‘fattening farm’: enterprise which raises wild individuals in cages for fattening;

(j)

‘transport vessel’: vessel receiving wild individuals and transporting them live to fattening farms.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Art. 3(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 6(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 869/2004 of 26 April 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 1936/2001 laying down control measures applicable to fishing for certain stocks of highly migratory fish.

F3 Inserted by Council Regulation (EC) No 869/2004 of 26 April 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 1936/2001 laying down control measures applicable to fishing for certain stocks of highly migratory fish.