# Council Regulation (EC) No 1936/2001 of 27 September 2001 laying down control measures applicable to fishing for certain stocks of highly migratory fish, Article 3: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:
(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;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(f)‘stateless vessel’: vessel for which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting it to be without nationality;
(g)‘fattening’: raising of individuals in cages to increase their weight or fat content with a view to marketing;
(h)‘caging’: placing of wild individuals of any size in closed structures (cages) for fattening;
(i)‘fattening farm’: enterprise which raises wild individuals in cages for fattening;
(j)‘transport vessel’: vessel receiving wild individuals and transporting them live to fattening farms.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2001/1936/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-1936/article-3
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