Decision 2008/949 - 2008/949/EC: Commission Decision of 6 November 2008 adopting a multiannual Community programme pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 199/2008 establishing a Community framework for the collection, management and use of data in the fisheries sector and support for scientific advice regarding the common fisheries policy - Main contents

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 346/37

Regulation (EC) No 199/2008 establishes a Community framework for the collection, management and use of data for the purpose of forming a solid basis for scientific analyses of fisheries and of providing for the formulation of sound scientific advice for the implementation of the common fisheries policy (hereinafter referred to as the CFP).

Member States should establish multiannual national programmes for the collection, management and use of data in accordance with the multiannual Community programme.

It is therefore necessary to establish a multiannual Community programme covering the collection of information needed to support scientific analysis required in the framework of the CFP and the management and use of this information.

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture.

For the purpose of this Community Programme the following definitions shall apply:

(a)   Active vessels: vessels that have been engaged in any fishing operation (more than zero days) during a calendar year. A vessel that has not been engaged in fishing operations during a year is considered ‘inactive’.

(b)   Concurrent sampling: sampling all or a predefined assemblage of species, simultaneously in a vessel's catches or landings.

(c)   Days at sea: any continuous period of 24 hours (or part thereof) during which a vessel is present within an area and absent from port.

(d)   Fleet segment: a group of vessels with the same length class (LOA) and predominant fishing gear during the year, according to the Appendix III. Vessels may have different fishing activities during the reference period, but might be classified in only one fleet segment.

(e)   Fishing days: each day is attributed to the area where the most fishing time was spent during the relevant day at sea. However, for passive gears, if no operation took place from the vessel during a day while at least one (passive) gear remained at sea, that day will be associated to the area where the last setting of a fishing gear was carried out on that fishing trip.

(f)   Fishing trip: means any voyage by a fishing vessel from a land location to a landing place, excluding non-fishing trips (a trip by a fishing vessel from a location to a land location during which it does not engage in fishing activities and during which any gear on board is securely lashed and stowed and not available for immediate use).

(g)   Metier: a group of fishing operations targeting a similar (assemblage of) species, using similar gear, during the same period of the year...