Subject matter
Article 1
This Regulation fixes fishing opportunities for 2008 for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks in the Black Sea and the specific conditions under which such fishing opportunities may be used.
Council Regulation (EC) No 1579/2007 CHAPTER I — SUBJECT, SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS
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Scope
Article 2
1. This Regulation shall apply to Community fishing vessels (Community vessels) operating in the Black Sea. 2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, this Regulation shall not apply to fishing operations conducted solely for the purpose of scientific investigations which are carried out with the permission and under the authority of the Member State concerned and of which the Commission and the Member State in the waters of which the research is carried out have been informed in advance.
Definitions
Article 3
In addition to the definitions laid down in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002, for the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply: (a) ‘GFCM’ shall mean General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean; (b) ‘Black Sea’ shall mean the GFCM geographical sub-area as defined in Resolution GFCM/31/2007/2; (c) ‘total allowable catch (TAC)’ shall mean the quantity that can be taken from each stock each year; (d) ‘quota’ shall mean a proportion of the TAC allocated to the Community, a Member State or a third country.
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