Division 1 For the purpose of this Community Programme the following definitions shall apply:

vessels that have been engaged in any fishing operation (more than 0 days) during a calendar year. A vessel that has not been engaged in fishing operations during a year is considered ‘inactive’;

sampling all or a predefined assemblage of species, simultaneously in a vessel’s catches or landings;

any continuous period of 24 hours (or part thereof) during which a vessel is present within an area and absent from port;

a group of vessels with the same length class (LOA) and predominant fishing gear during the year, according to the Appendix III. Vessels may have different fishing activities during the reference period, but might be classified in only one fleet segment;

each day is attributed to the area where the most fishing time was spent during the relevant day at sea. However, for passive gears, if no operation took place from the vessel during a day while at least one (passive) gear remained at sea, that day will be associated to the area where the last setting of a fishing gear was carried out on that fishing trip;

means any voyage by a fishing vessel from a land location to a landing place, excluding non-fishing trips (a trip by a fishing vessel from a location to a land location during which it does not engage in fishing activities and during which any gear on board is securely lashed and stowed and not available for immediate use);

a group of fishing operations targeting a similar (assemblage of) species, using similar gear, during the same period of the year and/or within the same area and which are characterised by a similar exploitation pattern;

all vessels in the Community Fishing Fleet Register as defined in Commission Regulation (EC) No 26/2004^f1;

species of relevance for management purposes and for which a request is made by an international scientific body or a regional fisheries management organisation;

time calculated from the point where each individual unit of gear has been set, to the time when the same unit starts to be removed.