Article 3 Definitions

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:

1. (1)

   ‘fisheries sector’ means activities related to commercial fisheries, recreational fisheries, aquaculture and industries processing fisheries products;

2. (2)

   ‘recreational fisheries’ means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine biological resources for recreation, tourism or sport;

3. (3)

   ‘marine region’ means a geographical area set out in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 F1or an area established by regional fisheries management organisations F2...;

4. (4)

   ‘primary data’ means data associated with individual vessels, natural or legal persons or individual samples;

5. (5)

   ‘metadata’ means data giving qualitative and quantitative information on the collected primary data;

6. (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;

7. (7)

   ‘aggregated data’ means the output resulting from summarising the primary or detailed data for specific analytic purposes;

8. (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;

9. (9)

   ‘scientific data’ means data referred to in Article 1(1) that are collected, managed or used under this Regulation.