text-align:justify;line-height:10.05pt'>1. Fishing-related activities: any operation in support of, or in preparation for, fishing, including the landing, packaging, processing, transshipment, or transport of fish that have not been previously landed at a port, as well as the provision of personnel, fuel, fishing gear, and other supplies at sea.
2. Costa Rican Jurisdictional Waters: All waters where the Costa Rican State exercises sovereignty, control, administration, and surveillance, which also exercises jurisdiction at sea up to 200 nautical miles.
3. Jurisdictional Waters of other coastal States: All marine areas under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of another coastal State in accordance with its internal legislation and applicable international law.
4. High Seas: All parts of the sea not included in the exclusive economic zone, in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State, nor in the archipelagic waters of an archipelagic State.
5. AMERP: Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and its Annexes. Law No. 9321 published in La Gaceta No. 196 of October 8, 2015.
6. Executing Authority: Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture or its acronym (AE).
7. CSC: INCOPESCA Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance Center: The unit of INCOPESCA responsible for the monitoring, control, and surveillance of the vessels regulated in this regulation through the system that comprises all the equipment (hardware), usage programs (software), and communication services, which aim to identify the fishing activities carried out by the vessels and determine their location, route, and position at sea.
8. DS: Tracking device (Dispositivo de seguimiento), is the installed device that allows the tracking, location, control, and safety of vessels.
9. DOPA: Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture Management of INCOPESCA.
10. Vessel: any ship, boat of another type, or craft used, equipped to be used, or intended to be used for fishing or activities related to the same.
11. Foreign fishing vessel: Any foreign vessel that has a fishing license issued by INCOPESCA or that vessel with a fishing license issued by its country of origin that requests access to jurisdictional waters for the purpose of unloading fishery products in duly authorized Costa Rican ports.
12. National fishing vessel: Any vessel that is registered in the national vessel registry and has a Costa Rican flag, with a Fishing License issued by INCOPESCA and that is dedicated to Fishing in Costa Rican Jurisdictional Waters or international waters to which Costa Rica has access in accordance with international law.
13. FID: Fishery Product Landing Inspection Form issued by Incopesca.
14. GLONASS: Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS, for its acronym in Russian). Refers to a radionavigation system that through the use of satellites allows locating the position of objects on the earth's surface (land, sea, or air).
15. GNSS: Global Navigation Satellite System (Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS, for its acronym in English). Constellation of satellites that transmits ranges of signals used for positioning and location anywhere on the globe. The system allows determining the geographic coordinates and altitude of a given point as a result of the reception of signals from constellations of artificial Earth satellites for navigation purposes. It encompasses the satellite systems GPS and GLONASS.
16. GPS: Global Positioning System (Global Positioning System, GPS, for its acronym in English). Refers to a radionavigation system that through the use of satellites allows locating the position of objects on the earth's surface (land, sea, or air).
17. INCOPESCA: Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture.
18. LPA: Fisheries and Aquaculture Law, Law No. 8436.
19. OJP: Fisheries Legal Body of INCOPESCA.
20. OMI: International Maritime Organization.
21. OSPESCA: Organization of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector of the Central American Isthmus.
22. Fishing: Act consisting of capturing, hunting, and extracting aquatic animals by methods or procedures approved by the competent authority.
23. Illegal fishing: Illegal fishing refers to activities (1) carried out by national or foreign vessels in waters under the jurisdiction of a State, without the permission of said State, or in contravention of its laws and regulations; (2) carried out by vessels flying the flag of States that are parties to a relevant regional fisheries management organization, but which operate in contravention of the conservation and management measures adopted by said organization and by which the States are bound, or the relevant provisions of applicable international law; and/or (3) in violation of national laws or international obligations, including those undertaken by cooperating States with a relevant regional fisheries management organization.
24. Unreported fishing: Unreported fishing refers to fishing activities that have not been reported, or have been misreported, to the relevant national authority, in contravention of national laws and regulations; or carried out in the area of competence of a relevant regional fisheries management organization, which have not been reported or have been misreported, contravening the reporting procedures of said organization.
25. Unregulated fishing: Unregulated fishing refers to fishing activities in the area of application of a relevant regional fisheries management organization that are carried out by vessels without nationality, or by those flying the flag of a State not a party to said organization, or by a fishing entity, in a manner that is not consistent with or that contravenes the conservation and management measures of said organization; or in areas or for fish stocks for which there are no applicable conservation and management measures and when such fishing activities are carried out in a manner inconsistent with State responsibilities for the conservation of living marine resources under international law.
26. PESCA INDNR: Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. IUU (For its acronym in English).
27. Satellite Provider: Company authorized by INCOPESCA to provide the satellite data communication service to and from the CSC; and to carry out the maintenance of the referred equipment.
28. National port: a site in the national territory duly authorized by the competent authority of Costa Rica, where all terminals and other facilities for landing, transshipment, packaging, processing, refueling, or resupplying are located.
29. SICA: Central American Integration System.
30. SLSC: Location, tracking, and control system (Sistema de localización, seguimiento y control). Set of computer programs and equipment used for the location, tracking, control, and safety of vessels.
31. SISPA: Integrated System of Fishery and Aquaculture Services.
32. UTC: Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time.
33. VMS: Vessel Monitoring System (Vessel Monitoring System, VMS, for its acronym in English).
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