Regulation (EU) 2017/2107 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 4 U.K. Definitions

For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1)

‘ICCAT species’ means species listed in Annex I;

(2)

‘tropical tuna’ means bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna and skipjack tuna;

(3)

‘fishing vessel’ means any vessel equipped for commercial exploitation of marine biological resources or a bluefin tuna trap;

(4)

‘catching vessel’ means a fishing vessel used for the purpose of the capture of marine biological resources;

(5)

[F1 “United Kingdom fishing vessel” means a fishing vessel which is registered in the United Kingdom under Part 2 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995. A reference to a particular kind of fishing vessel is a reference to a United Kingdom fishing vessel of that kind. A reference to the ‘fleet’ of a fisheries administration is a reference to all United Kingdom fishing vessels which are—

(a)

in the case of the Secretary of State and the Marine Management Organisation, registered to a port in England;

(b)

in the case of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland, registered to a port in Northern Ireland;

(c)

in the case of the Scottish Ministers, registered to a port in Scotland; or

(d)

in the case of the Welsh Ministers registered to a port in Wales;]

(6)

‘fishing authorisation’ means an authorisation issued in respect of a Union fishing vessel entitling it to carry out specific fishing activities during a specified period, in a given area or for a given fishery under specific conditions;

(7)

‘special fishing authorisation’ means an authorisation issued in respect of a [F2 United Kingdom] fishing vessel entitling it to carry out specific fishing activities with specific gear during a specified period, in a given area or for a given fishery under specific conditions;

(8)

‘transhipment’ means the unloading of all or any fisheries products on board a vessel to another vessel;

(9)

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

(10)

‘Task I data’ means data defined as Task I by ICCAT in the ‘Field manual for statistics and sampling Atlantic tunas and tuna-like fish’;

(11)

‘Task II data’ means data defined as Task II by ICCAT in the ‘Field manual for statistics and sampling Atlantic tunas and tuna-like fish’;

(12)

‘CPC’ means contracting parties to the ICCAT Convention and cooperating non-contracting parties, entities or fishing entities;

(13)

‘ICCAT Convention area’ means all waters of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas;

(14)

‘sustainable fisheries partnership agreement’ means an international agreement as defined in point 37 of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013;

(15)

‘vessel length’ means the distance measured in a straight line between the foremost point of the bow and the aftermost point of the stern;

(16)

‘large-scale pelagic longline vessel’ means a pelagic longline vessel greater than 24 metres in length overall;

(17)

‘large-scale fishing vessel’ means a fishing vessel greater than 20 metres in length overall;

(18)

‘large-scale catching vessel’ means a catching vessel greater than 20 metres in length overall;

(19)

‘ICCAT record of large-scale fishing vessels’ means the list, maintained by the ICCAT Secretariat, of large-scale fishing vessels authorised to target ICCAT species in the ICCAT Convention area;

(20)

‘support vessel’ means a vessel other than a craft carried on board that is not equipped with an operational fishing gear and that facilitates, assists or prepares fishing activities, including by supplying a catching vessel;

(21)

‘carrier vessel’ means a support vessel engaged in transhipment and receiving ICCAT species from a large-scale pelagic longline vessel;

(22)

‘ICCAT record of carrier vessels’ means the list, maintained by the ICCAT Secretariat, of vessels authorised to receive transhipment at sea from large-scale pelagic longline vessels in the ICCAT Convention area;

(23)

‘ICCAT record of authorised tropical tunas vessels’ means the list, maintained by the ICCAT Secretariat, of large-scale fishing vessels authorised to fish, retain on board, tranship, transport, process or land tropical tunas in the ICCAT Convention area;

(24)

‘fish-aggregating device’ (FAD) means any equipment which is floating on the sea surface and is deployed with the objective of attracting fish;

(25)

‘IUU fishing’ means fishing activities defined in point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008;

(26)

‘ICCAT IUU list’ means a list of vessels which are considered by ICCAT to have engaged in IUU fishing;

(27)

‘longlines’ means a fishing gear which comprises a main line carrying numerous hooks on branch lines (snoods) of variable length and spacing depending on the target species;

(28)

‘purse seines’ means any encircling net the bottom of which is drawn together by means of a purse line at the bottom of the net, which passes through a series of rings along the groundrope, enabling the net to be pursed and closed;

(29)

‘hook’ means a bent, sharpened piece of steel wire.

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 4(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 7(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in Art. 4(7) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 7(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)