Article 3 Definitions

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

1. (a)

   ‘boarding’: the boarding of a fishing vessel within an organisation's area of competence by one or more authorised inspectors in order to make an inspection;

2. (b)

   ‘transhipment’: unloading of any quantity of highly migratory fish and/or products from such fish from on board a fishing vessel to another vessel either at sea or in port, without the products having been recorded by a port F1state as landed;

3. (c)

   ‘landing’: unloading of any quantity of highly migratory fish and/or products from such fish from on board a fishing vessel to port or to land;

4. (d)

   ‘infringement’: any presumed act committed or omitted by a fishing vessel that is recorded in an inspection report and gives serious reason for suspecting a breach of the provisions of this Regulation or any other Regulation transposing a recommendation adopted by a regional organisation for one of the zones indicated in Article 2;

5. (e)

   ‘vessel of a non-Contracting Party’: vessel observed and identified as engaged in fishing activities in one of the zones specified in Article 2 that is flying the flag of a country that is not a Contracting Party to the relevant regional organisation;

6. (f)

   ‘stateless vessel’: vessel for which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting it to be without nationalityF2;

7. (g)

   F3‘fattening’: raising of individuals in cages to increase their weight or fat content with a view to marketing;

8. (h)

   ‘caging’: placing of wild individuals of any size in closed structures (cages) for fattening;

9. (i)

   ‘fattening farm’: enterprise which raises wild individuals in cages for fattening;

10. (j)

    ‘transport vessel’: vessel receiving wild individuals and transporting them live to fattening farms.