Council Regulation (EC) No 199/2008 (repealed)Show full title

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1 Subject-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 2 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.