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  "legislation": "eur/2010/1236",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1236/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 2010 laying down a scheme of control and enforcement applicable in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 2791/1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-1236",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:\n1..‘Convention’ means the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in North-East Atlantic fisheries, as amended;\n2..‘Convention Area’ means the Convention Area as defined in Article 1(1) of the Convention;\n3..‘Regulatory Area’ means the waters of the Convention Area which lie beyond the waters under the fisheries jurisdiction of the Contracting Parties;\n4..‘Contracting Parties’ means the Contracting Parties to the Convention;\n5..‘NEAFC’ means the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission;\n6..‘fishing activities’ means fishing, including joint fishing operations, fish processing operations, the transhipment or landing of fishery resources or products thereof and any other commercial activity in preparation for, or related to, fishing, including packaging, transporting, refuelling or resupplying;\n7..‘fishery resources’ means the resources referred to in Article 1(2) of the Convention;\n8..‘regulated resources’ means those fishery resources which are subject to recommendations under the Convention and are listed in the Annex;\n9..‘fishing vessel’ means any vessel used or intended for use for the purposes of the commercial exploitation of fishery resources, including fish processing vessels and vessels engaged in transhipment;\n10..‘non-Contracting Party vessel’ means any vessel engaged in fishing activities that is not flagged in a Contracting Party, including vessels for which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting them to be without nationality;\n11..‘joint fishing operation’ means any operations between two or more vessels where catch is taken from the fishing gear of one fishing vessel to another;\n12..‘transhipment operation’ means the unloading of all or any fishery products on board a fishing vessel onto another fishing vessel;\n13..‘port’ means any place on shore used for landing or for the provision of services in relation to, or in support of, fishing activities, or a place on or close to the shore designated by a Contracting Party for transhipping of fishery resources.\n14..“United Kingdom fishing vessel” means a fishing vessel which is registered in the United Kingdom under Part 2 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995. A reference to the ‘fleet’ of a fisheries administration is a reference to all United Kingdom fishing vessels which are—\n(a)in the case of the Secretary of State and the Marine Management Organisation, registered to a port in England;\n(b)in the case of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland, registered to a port in Northern Ireland;\n(c)in the case of the Scottish Ministers, registered to a port in Scotland; or\n(d)in the case of the Welsh Ministers registered to a port in Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) 2016/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 January 2016 amending Regulation (EU) No 1236/2010 laying down a scheme of control and enforcement applicable in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 3(14) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 5(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/1236/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
}