Regulation (EU) 2024/2594

means the use of fishing gear that is likely to contact the seafloor during the normal course of fishing operations;

means areas closed to bottom fishing for the protection of VMEs in the Regulatory Area, as specified in point 8 of Annex IV;

means the Contracting Parties to the Convention;

means the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in North-East Atlantic fisheries;

means the areas:

means a report of a fishing activity that is taking or has taken place at the time of its recording and transmission;

means the European Fisheries Control Agency established by Regulation (EU) 2019/473 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means all documents, reports, messages and forms electronically transmitted and received pursuant to the provisions of the NEAFC Scheme;

means the record by electronic means of fishing activity details recorded by the master of a fishing vessel and transmitted to the flag State from the prior notification of entry into the Regulatory Area until the exit from the Regulatory Area;

means the catch of VME indicator species above the following threshold levels:

means the portion of the Regulatory Area where bottom fishing occurred in the period between 1987 to 2007, as defined by the coordinates set out in Annex III;

means all commercial bottom fishing within restricted bottom fishing areas or, if there are significant changes to the conduct and technology of bottom fishing, within existing bottom fishing areas;

means the resources of fish, molluscs, crustaceans and including sedentary species, excluding, in so far as they are dealt with by other international agreements, highly migratory species listed in Annex I of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982, and anadromous stocks;

means fishing, including joint fishing operations, fish processing operations, the transhipment or landing of fishery resources or products thereof and any other commercial activity in preparation for, or related to, fishing, including packaging, transporting, refuelling or resupplying;

means, with regard to fishing activities in the Regulatory Area, any voyage of a fishing vessel during which fishing activities are conducted from the time of entry into until its exit from the Regulatory Area;

means any vessel used or intended for use for the purpose of commercial exploitation of fishery resources, including fish processing vessels and vessels engaged in transhipment;

means a land-based fisheries monitoring centre of the flag State;

means any operation between two or more fishing vessels where catch is taken from the fishing gear of one fishing vessel to another;

means the standardised form in which reports are exchanged between Contracting Parties and the NEAFC Secretariat or between Member States and the Commission;

means the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission;

means any vessel engaged in fishing activities that is flagged neither in a Contracting Party nor in an active cooperating non-Contracting Party to NEAFC, or any fishing vessel for which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting it to be without nationality;

means any place on shore used for landing or for the provision of services in relation to, or in support of, fishing activities, or a place on or close to the shore designated by a Contracting Party for transhipping of fishery resources;

means a report on the intention to perform an activity in the future;

means the fishery resources which are subject to recommendations under the Convention and are listed in Annex I;

means the waters of the Convention Area which lie beyond the waters under the fisheries jurisdiction of Contracting Parties;

means the standardised information related to fishing activities recorded by electronic means;

means impacts referred to in paragraphs 17 to 20 of the FAO International Guidelines for the Management of Deep-Sea Fisheries in the High Seas;

means the direct transfer of any quantity of fishery resources or products thereof retained on board from one fishing vessel to another;

means a fishing vessel monitoring system providing the competent authorities with data at regular intervals on the position, course and speed of the fishing vessel;