CHAPTER IGENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1Subject matter and scope

1.

F1This Regulation establishes rules on the collection, management and use of biological, environmental, technical and socioeconomic data in the fisheries sector as provided for in Article 25 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 F2with a view to contributing to the achievement of the fisheries objectives.

2.

The data referred to in paragraph 1 shall only be collected if no obligation to collect them exists under F3applicable law other than this Regulation.

3.

For data necessary for fisheries management which are collected under other F4applicable law, this Regulation only defines rules for the use and transmission of those data.

Article 2Data protection

Where relevant, the processing, management and use of data collected under this Regulation shall comply with, and be without prejudice to, Directive 95/46/EC and Regulations (EC) No 45/2001 and (EC) No 223/2009.

Article 3Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 apply. In addition, the following definitions apply:

  1. (1)

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

  2. (2)

    ‘recreational fisheries’ means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine biological resources for recreation, tourism or sport;

  3. (3)

    ‘marine region’ means a geographical area set out in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 F5or an area established by regional fisheries management organisations F6...;

  4. (4)

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

  5. (5)

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

  6. (6)

    ‘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;

  7. (7)

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

  8. (8)

    ‘scientific observer’ means a person appointed to observe fishing operations in the context of data collection for scientific purposes and designated by a body in charge of the implementation of the national work plans for data collection;

  9. (9)

    ‘scientific data’ means data referred to in Article 1(1) that are collected, managed or used under this Regulation.