Subject matter
Article 1
This Regulation lays down detailed rules for the implementation of the Union fisheries control system as established by Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.
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Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply: (1) ‘beam trawl’ means a gear as defined in Article 6(16) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 5 ) ; (2) ‘presentation’ means the form into which the fish is processed while on board of the fishing vessel and prior to landing, as described in Table 1 of Annex I; (3) ‘collective presentation’ means a presentation consisting of two or more parts extracted from the same fish; (4) ‘fish aggregating device’ or ‘FAD’ means a permanent, semi-permanent, or temporary object, structure, or device of any material, man-made or natural, which is deployed and/or tracked for the purpose of aggregating fish; (5) ‘holder of a fishing licence’ means a natural or legal person to whom a fishing licence has been issued; (6) ‘inspected operator’ means the natural person in charge of the fishing vessel, vehicle, aircraft, hovercraft or premises being inspected, or carrying out fishing without a vessel and subject to inspection. (7) ‘other authorisations’ means fishing authorisations for Union fishing vessels other than catching vessels as referred to in Article 7a of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009; (8) ‘passive gear’ means any fishing gear which is not towed or otherwise moved through water by human, animal or mechanical energy, such as gillnets, entangling nets, trammel nets, trap nets, driftnets, lines, including longlines, and traps, including pots and creels; (9) ‘validation’ means performing cross-checking, analysis, and verification to ensure that data is accurate, complete, consistent, and transmitted within legal timeframes; (10) ‘business rules’ means a set of predefined rules used for the purposes of validation. (11) ‘cross-checking’ means comparing data from different sources or datasets to identify and investigate inconsistencies, errors, and missing information in the data; (12) ‘analysis’ means examining and modeling data to identify and investigate patterns, trends, or anomalies; (13) ‘verification’ means checking and confirming that the data meets format, quantity, and quality standards; (14) ‘data validation system’ means an electronic system, including the electronic database, for data validation; (15) ‘request for assistance’ means a request addressed by one Member State to another, or by the Commission or EFCA to a Member State, related to the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 and this Regulation, in accordance with the principle of administrative cooperation set in Article 117 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009; (16) ‘vessel monitoring device’ means a tracking device, including a non-satellite mobile tracking device, as referred to in Article 9(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009.
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