- A)Special proxy (Apoderado especial): a natural or legal person authorized by the beneficiary, through a legal document, to carry out on their behalf the application, processing, and withdrawal of the competitive-priced fuel purchase order. The power of attorney must be notarized and granted individually.
- B)ARESEP: Public Services Regulatory Authority (Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos).
- C)Victualling (Avituallamiento): the action and effect of supplying oneself with provisions and other necessary inputs to carry out the fishing task.
- D)Competent authority (Autoridad competente): ARESEP, MINAE, FISCAL POLICE (POLICÍA FISCAL), RECOPE, National Coast Guard Service (Servicio Nacional de Guardacostas), Delegates of the Public Force (Fuerza Pública), Port Captaincies of the General Directorate of Maritime Transport of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, SCAC, Directorates, Regional Offices, and Sub Regional Offices of INCOPESCA.
- E)Base of Operations (Base de Operación): Place chosen by the beneficiary to victual and disembark the fishery products of their vessel.
- F)Beneficiary (Beneficiario): a natural or legal person with a valid commercial fishing license (licencia de pesca comercial), who applies personally or through duly authorized third parties for competitive-priced fuel, as established in this Regulation.
- G)Catch (Captura): the quantity of hydrobiological resources that are entirely disembarked in the national territory by the fishers on each fishing trip carried out aboard a specific vessel.
- H)Fuel (Combustible): refers to gasoline, regular, and diesel used in vessels with a valid fishing license, for the execution of non-sport commercial fishing tasks.
- I)Reconciliation (Conciliación): matching the balances of liters of fuel authorized at a competitive price by INCOPESCA through purchase orders, with those liters sold by RECOPE for the same period.
- J)Contracts (Contratos): documents in which the different clauses are recorded, expressing the conditions to which the beneficiaries, the Fishing Organizations (Organizaciones Pesqueras), the Special Proxies, and INCOPESCA are bound in relation to the fuel granted at a competitive price.
- K)Department of Fuel Control and Administration (DCAC) (Departamento de Control y Administración de Combustible): INCOPESCA unit in charge of the Administration, Oversight, and Control of the efficient use of fuel recommended at a competitive price.
- L)Days of absence (Días de ausencia): the days elapsed in terms of 24 hours from the departure of the vessel from any port, until its arrival at the same or another port after finishing its fishing trip.
- M)Conversion factor (Factor de conversión): corresponds to the value required to convert horsepower (Hp) to kilowatts (Kw) of outboard or inboard motors, which is equal to 0.7453.
- N)National fishing fleet (Flota pesquera nacional): set of national vessels registered in the Public Property Registry and used for the types of fishing established in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Law No. 8436.
- O)Gulf of Nicoya (Golfo de Nicoya): for the purposes of this Regulation, it is defined as:
O.1. Inner Zone (Zona Interna): area comprised between the imaginary straight line extending from the westernmost point of the city of Puntarenas to the easternmost point of Punta Gigante on the Nicoya Peninsula, and from this line, inland waters bordering the coast on both sides of the gulf, until reaching the imaginary straight line extending between Puerto Níspero and Puerto Moreno at the mouth of the Tempisque River.
O.2. Outer Zone (Zona Externa): area comprised between the imaginary straight line extending from the westernmost point of the city of Puntarenas to the easternmost point of Punta Gigante on the Nicoya Peninsula, and from this line, offshore waters bordering the coast on both sides of the gulf, until reaching the imaginary straight line extending between Cabo Blanco and Punta Herradura.
- P)INCOPESCA: Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Instituto Costarricense de Pesca y Acuicultura).
- Q)MINAE-DGTCC: Ministry of Environment and Energy-General Directorate of Fuel Transport and Commercialization (Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía-Dirección General de Transporte y Comercialización de Combustibles).
- S)Fishing master or captain (Patrón de pesca o capitán): person on board the vessel responsible for directing the fishing tasks and navigation.
- T)Artisanal fishing (Pesca artesanal): fishing activity carried out in an artisanal manner by natural persons, or legal persons when it involves associations, cooperatives, or others of a similar nature, using a vessel, in continental waters or in the coastal zone, and with an autonomy to operate according to current legislation.
- U)Commercial fishing (Pesca comercial): commercial fishing is carried out to obtain economic benefits and is classified as:
U.1. Small-scale (Pequeña escala): fishing carried out personally by natural persons, without the use of a vessel, in continental waters or in the coastal zone, or that practiced aboard a vessel with an autonomy to operate up to a maximum of three nautical miles of the Costa Rican territorial sea.
U.2. Medium-scale (Mediana escala): fishing carried out by natural or legal persons, aboard a vessel with autonomy to operate up to a maximum of forty miles.
U.3. Advanced (Avanzada): fishing carried out, by mechanical means, by natural or legal persons, aboard a vessel with autonomy to operate exceeding forty nautical miles, aimed at capturing pelagic species with longline and other species of commercial importance.
U.4. Semi-industrial (Semi-industrial): fishing carried out by natural or legal persons, aboard vessels aimed at extracting shrimp with trawl net, sardine, and tuna with purse seine net.
11.5. Industrial: fishing and industrialization carried out by natural or legal persons, with vessels capable of carrying out fishing, freezing, packaging, and industrialization of their catches on board.
- V)Port (Puerto): place of departure or arrival of fishing vessels in the national sphere.
- W)Fishing Organization (Organización Pesquera): Those groups of fishers legally organized for scientific purposes, for the promotion of fishing activity, for environmental protection, for charitable, recreational purposes, and any other lawful purposes that do not have profit or gain as their sole and exclusive objective. It also includes, in addition to the specific associations determined by the Law of Associations, trade associations, mutual aid, pension, and patronage associations, and cooperative associations with limited liability. Which possess legal personality and identification number. The commercial companies determined by the Commercial Code are excluded from this concept.
- X)RECOPE: Costa Rican Oil Refinery S. A. (Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo S. A.)
- Y)Signature Registry (Registro de Firmas): Suitable document where the signatures of the beneficiary, whether a natural or legal person, and of the special proxies are recorded, in accordance with the special powers of attorney granted.
On the powers, obligations, and responsibilities of the beneficiaries