Article 4 Definitions

‘ICES zones’ means the zones defined in Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f2;

‘CECAF areas’ means the areas defined in Regulation (EC) No 216/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f3;

‘Regulatory Area of the NEAFC’ means the waters subject to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in North-East Atlantic Fisheries which lie beyond the waters under the fisheries jurisdiction of the contracting parties to that Convention;

‘most vulnerable species’ means the deep-sea species that are indicated in the third column ‘Most vulnerable (x)’ of the table in Annex I;

‘métier’ means fishing activities targeting certain species by a certain gear in a certain area;

‘deep-sea métier’ means a métier that targets deep-sea species in accordance with the indications laid down in Article 5(2);

‘fisheries monitoring centre’ means an operational centre established by a F1fisheries administration and equipped with computer hardware and software enabling automatic data reception, processing and electronic data transmission;

‘encounters’ means catches of such quantities of VME indicator species that are above the threshold levels set out in Annex IV;

‘unintended catches’ means incidental catches of marine organisms which, under Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, must be landed and counted against quotas either because they are below the minimum conservation reference size or because they exceed the quantities permitted under the catch composition and by-catch rules;

‘VME indicators’ means those included in Annex III;

‘existing deep-sea fishing areas’ means the portion of the area referred to in point (a) of Article 2(1), where deep-sea fishing activities have historically occurred and that is determined in accordance with Article 7.