CHAPTER IGENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1Subject-matter
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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.
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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:
- (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.