Subject matter
Article 1
This Regulation fixes the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks in the Baltic Sea for 2016.
Council Regulation (EU) 2015/2072 CHAPTER I — GENERAL PROVISIONS
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Scope
Article 2
This Regulation shall apply to Union fishing vessels operating in the Baltic Sea.
Definitions
Article 3
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply: (1) ‘ICES’ means International Council for the Exploration of the Sea; (2) ‘Baltic Sea’ means ICES zones IIIb, IIIc and IIId; (3) ‘subdivision’ means an ICES subdivision of the Baltic Sea as defined in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005 ( 7 ) ; (4) ‘fishing vessel’ means any vessel equipped for commercial exploitation of marine biological resources; (5) ‘Union fishing vessel’ means a fishing vessel flying the flag of a Member State and registered in the Union; (6) ‘stock’ means a marine biological resource that occurs in a given management area; (7) ‘total allowable catch’ (TAC) means the quantity of each stock that can be: (i) caught over the period of a year, for fisheries that are subject to a landing obligation pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013; or (ii) landed over the period of a year, for fisheries that are not subject to a landing obligation pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013; (8) ‘quota’ means a proportion of the TAC allocated to the Union, a Member State or a third country.
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