Council Regulation (EU) No 1221/2014Dangos y teitl llawn

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1 Subject matter

This Regulation fixes the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks in the Baltic Sea for 2015.

Article 2 Scope

This Regulation shall apply to Union fishing vessels operating in the Baltic Sea.

Article 3 Definitions

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

(1)

‘ICES’ means International Council for the Exploration of the Sea;

(2)

‘Baltic Sea’ means ICES zones IIIb, IIIc and IIId;

(3)

‘subdivision’ means an ICES subdivision of the Baltic sea as defined in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005(1);

(4)

‘fishing vessel’ means any vessel equipped for commercial exploitation of marine biological resources;

(5)

‘Union fishing vessel’ means a fishing vessel flying the flag of a Member State and registered in the Union;

(6)

‘fishing effort’ means the product of the capacity and the activity of a fishing vessel; for a group of fishing vessels it is the sum of the fishing effort of all fishing vessels in the group;

(7)

‘stock’ means a marine biological resource that occurs in a given management area;

(8)

‘total allowable catch’ (TAC) means the quantity of each stock that can be:

(i)

caught over the period of a year, in the fisheries that are subject to the landing obligation pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013; or

(ii)

landed over the period of a year, in the fisheries that are not subject to the landing obligation pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013;

(9)

‘quota’ means a proportion of the TAC allocated to the Union, a Member State or a third country;

(10)

‘days absent from port’ means any continuous period of 24 hours or part thereof during which a fishing vessel is not present in a port.

(1)

Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005 of 21 December 2005 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures in the Baltic Sea, the Belts and the Sound, amending Regulation (EC) No 1434/98 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 88/98 (OJ L 349, 31.12.2005, p. 1).