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 ( 6 ) ; (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) ‘fishing effort’ means the product of the capacity and the activity of a fishing vessel; for a group of fishing vessels it is the sum of the fishing effort of all fishing vessels in the group; (7) ‘stock’ means a marine biological resource that occurs in a given management area; (8) ‘total allowable catch’ (TAC) means the quantity of each stock that can be: (i) caught over the period of a year, in the fisheries that are subject to the landing obligation pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013; or (ii) landed over the period of a year, in the fisheries that are not subject to the landing obligation pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013; (9) ‘quota’ means a proportion of the TAC allocated to the Union, a Member State or a third country; (10) ‘days absent from port’ means any continuous period of 24 hours or part thereof during which a fishing vessel is not present in a port.