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Regulation (EU) 2017/1004 Article 3

Definitions

Article 3

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 apply. In addition, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘fisheries sector’ means activities related to commercial fisheries, recreational fisheries, aquaculture and industries processing fisheries products; (2) ‘recreational fisheries’ means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine biological resources for recreation, tourism or sport; (3) ‘marine region’ means a geographical area set out in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, an area established by regional fisheries management organisations or an area defined in the implementing act referred to in Article 9(11); (4) ‘primary data’ means data associated with individual vessels, natural or legal persons or individual samples; (5) ‘metadata’ means data giving qualitative and quantitative information on the collected primary data; (6) ‘detailed data’ means data based on primary data in a form which does not allow natural persons or legal entities to be identified directly or indirectly; (7) ‘aggregated data’ means the output resulting from summarising the primary or detailed data for specific analytic purposes; (8) ‘scientific observer’ means a person appointed to observe fishing operations in the context of data collection for scientific purposes and designated by a body in charge of the implementation of the national work plans for data collection; (9) ‘scientific data’ means data referred to in Article 1(1) that are collected, managed or used under this Regulation.

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