Council Regulation (EC) No 199/2008 (repealed)Show full title

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

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

(a)

‘fisheries sector’ means activities related to commercial fisheries, recreational fisheries, aquaculture and industries processing fisheries products;

(b)

‘aquaculture’ means the rearing or cultivation of aquatic organisms using techniques designed to increase the production of the organisms in question beyond the natural capacity of the environment; the organisms remaining the property of a natural or legal person throughout the rearing or culture stage, up to and including harvesting;

(c)

‘recreational fisheries’ means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting living aquatic resources for recreation or sport;

(d)

‘marine regions’ means the geographical areas set out in Annex I to Council Decision 2004/585/EC and the areas established by the regional fisheries management organisations;

(e)

‘primary data’ means data associated with individual vessels, natural or legal persons or individual samples;

(f)

‘meta data’ means data giving qualitative and quantitative information on the collected primary data;

(g)

‘detailed data’ means data based on primary data in a form which does not allow natural persons or legal entities to be identified directly or indirectly;

(h)

‘aggregated data’ means the output resulting from summarising the primary or detailed data for specific analytic purposes;

(i)

‘end-users’ means bodies with a research or management interest in the scientific analysis of data in the fisheries sector;

(j)

‘fleet-fishery based sampling’ means biological, technical and socio-economic data collection surveys based on agreed regional fishing types and fleet segments;

(k)

‘Community fishing vessel’ means a vessel as defined in Article 3(d) of Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002.