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  "legislation": "eudn/2011/443",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 20 June 2011 on the approval, on behalf of the European Union, of the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (2011/443/EU)",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Use of terms",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Agreement:\n(a) ‘conservation and management measures’ means measures to conserve and manage living marine resources that are adopted and applied consistently with the relevant rules of international law including those reflected in the Convention;\n(b) ‘fish’ means all species of living marine resources, whether processed or not;\n(c) ‘fishing’ means searching for, attracting, locating, catching, taking or harvesting fish or any activity which can reasonably be expected to result in the attracting, locating, catching, taking or harvesting of fish;\n(d) ‘fishing related activities’ means any operation in support of, or in preparation for, fishing, including the landing, packaging, processing, transshipping or transporting of fish that have not been previously landed at a port, as well as the provisioning of personnel, fuel, gear and other supplies at sea;\n(e) ‘illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing’ refers to the activities set out in paragraph 3 of the 2001 FAO International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, hereinafter referred to as IUU fishing;\n(f) ‘Party’ means a State or regional economic integration organisation that has consented to be bound by this Agreement and for which this Agreement is in force;\n(g) ‘port’ includes offshore terminals and other installations for landing, transshipping, packaging, processing, refueling or resupplying;\n(h) ‘regional economic integration organisation’ means a regional economic integration organisation to which its member States have transferred competence over matters covered by this Agreement, including the authority to make decisions binding on its member States in respect of those matters;\n(i) ‘regional fisheries management organisation’ means an intergovernmental fisheries organisation or arrangement, as appropriate, that has the competence to establish conservation and management measures; and\n(j) ‘vessel’ means any vessel, ship of another type or boat used for, equipped to be used for, or intended to be used for, fishing or fishing related activities.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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