{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-2025/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-2025/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2018/2025",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) 2018/2025 of 17 December 2018 fixing for 2019 and 2020 the fishing opportunities for Union fishing vessels for certain deep-sea fish stocks",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 shall apply. In addition, the following definitions apply:\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) ‘international waters’ means waters falling outside the sovereignty or jurisdiction of any state or country;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n2. For the purposes of this Regulation, the following zone definitions shall apply:\n(a) ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) zones are the geographical areas specified in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/848), regs. 1, 5(3)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 2(1)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/848), regs. 1, 5(3)(a)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1542, regs. 1(2), 16(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/848), regs. 1, 5(3)(a)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 2(1)(d) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/848), regs. 1, 5(3)(a)(iv); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 2(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/848), regs. 1, 5(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in the north-east Atlantic (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 70)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/2025/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:43.115145+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."
}