{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1004/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1004/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2017/1004",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2017/1004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2017 on the establishment of a Union framework for the collection, management and use of data in the fisheries sector and support for scientific advice regarding the common fisheries policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 199/2008 (recast)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1004",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 apply. In addition, the following definitions apply:\n(1)‘fisheries sector’ means activities related to commercial fisheries, recreational fisheries, aquaculture and industries processing fisheries products;\n(2)‘recreational fisheries’ means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine biological resources for recreation, tourism or sport;\n(3)‘marine region’ means a geographical area set out in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 or an area established by regional fisheries management organisations ...;\n(4)‘primary data’ means data associated with individual vessels, natural or legal persons or individual samples;\n(5)‘metadata’ means data giving qualitative and quantitative information on the collected primary data;\n(6)‘detailed data’ means data based on primary data in a form which does not allow natural persons or legal entities to be identified directly or indirectly;\n(7)‘aggregated data’ means the output resulting from summarising the primary or detailed data for specific analytic purposes;\n(8)‘scientific observer’ means a person appointed to observe fishing operations in the context of data collection for scientific purposes and designated by a body in charge of the implementation of the national work plans for data collection;\n(9)‘scientific data’ means data referred to in Article 1(1) that are collected, managed or used under this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 3(3) substituted for comma (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 16(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 16(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2017/1004/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:52.080608+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."
}