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Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1) ‘SBF’ means southern bluefin tuna or fish products originating from southern bluefin tuna;

(2) ‘Record of Vessels’ means the record of vessels established by the CCSBT authorised to fish for or by-catch SBF;

(3) ‘Union fishing vessel’ means any vessel flying the flag of a Member State, used or intended for use for the purposes of commercial exploitation of marine biological resources, including support vessels, fish processing vessels, vessels engaged in transhipment and carrier vessels equipped for the transportation of fishery products, but excluding container vessels;

(4) ‘transhipment’ means the unloading of all or any fishery product(s) on board a fishing vessel to another fishing vessel;

(5) ‘SBF tag’ means an external label attached to the whole SBF that contains information on the individual fish;

(6) ‘CDS’ means the specific catch documentation scheme for SBF established by the CCSBT comprising the catch monitoring form, catch tagging form and export or re-export form;

(7) ‘catch monitoring form’ means the document set out in Annex I, that records information on the catch, transhipment, export and import of SBF;

(8) ‘catch tagging form’ means the document set out in Annex II, that records information on individual fish tagged;

(9) ‘import’ means the introduction of SBF into the territory of the Union, including for transhipment purposes at ports in its territory;

(10) ‘export or re-export form’ means the document set out in Annex III, that contains information on SBF already tracked on the catch monitoring form of an import that is, either in full or part, exported or re-exported;

(11) ‘export’ means any movement to a third country of SBF harvested by Union fishing vessels;

(12) ‘re-export’ means any movement from the territory of the Union of SBF that had been previously imported into the territory of the Union;

(13) ‘whole SBF’ means SBF which has not undergone filleting or loining;

(14) ‘processed SBF’ means SBF which has undergone cleaning, gilling gutting, freezing, removal of fins, operculae (gill plates/covers) and tail and removal of the head or parts of the head;

(15) ‘SBF parts other than the meat’ means the head, eyes, roe, guts and tail;

(16) ‘transhipment declaration’ means the document set out in Annex IV;

(17) ‘conservation and management measures’ means the resolutions and other binding measures adopted by the CCSBT;

(18) ‘Annual VMS summary report’ means the document the format of which is set out in Attachment A to CCSBT-CC/0910/06 or in any document which supersedes it, in which the relevant VMS information is provided;

(19) ‘Compliance Committee’ means the subsidiary body of the CCSBT that monitors, reviews and assesses compliance with conservation and management measures;

(20) ‘draft IUU vessel list’ means the initial list drawn up by the Secretariat.