{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-1936/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-1936/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2001/1936",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1936/2001 of 27 September 2001 laying down control measures applicable to fishing for certain stocks of highly migratory fish",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-1936",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:\n(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;\n(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 state as landed;\n(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;\n(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;\n(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;\n(f)‘stateless vessel’: vessel for which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting it to be without nationality;\n(g)‘fattening’: raising of individuals in cages to increase their weight or fat content with a view to marketing;\n(h)‘caging’: placing of wild individuals of any size in closed structures (cages) for fattening;\n(i)‘fattening farm’: enterprise which raises wild individuals in cages for fattening;\n(j)‘transport vessel’: vessel receiving wild individuals and transporting them live to fattening farms.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 3(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 6(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 869/2004 of 26 April 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 1936/2001 laying down control measures applicable to fishing for certain stocks of highly migratory fish."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Inserted by Council Regulation (EC) No 869/2004 of 26 April 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 1936/2001 laying down control measures applicable to fishing for certain stocks of highly migratory fish."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2001/1936/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:46.832168+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}