CHAPTER IGENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1Subject-matter

1

This Regulation establishes rules on:

a

the collection and management, in the framework of multi-annual programmes, of biological, technical, environmental and socio-economic data concerning the fisheries sector;

b

the use of data concerning the fisheries sector in the framework of the Common Fisheries Policy (hereinafter referred to as the CFP), for the purpose of scientific analysis.

2

This Regulation also lays down provisions for the improvement of the scientific advice needed for the implementation of the CFP.

3

This Regulation shall be without prejudice to the obligations under Directive 95/46/EC, Regulation (EC) No 45/2001, Directive 2003/4/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006.

Article 2Definitions

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

  1. (a)

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

  2. (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;

  3. (c)

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

  4. (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;

  5. (e)

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

  6. (f)

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

  7. (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;

  8. (h)

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

  9. (i)

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

  10. (j)

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

  11. (k)

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