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A commercial vessel, registered, licenced and operated under the laws of a specific flag state. (Draft based on Wikipedia). Every State shall effectively exercise its jurisdiction and control in administrative, technical and social matters over ships flying its flag (Source: UNCLOS, Art. 94.1) Flag vessel in the context of CMS: "Range State" in relation to a particular migratory species means any State [...] that exercises jurisdiction over any part of the range of that migratory species, or a State, flag vessels of which are engaged outside national jurisdictional limits in taking that migratory species (CMS, Art 1h) (Source: CMS)

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In other languages

French
navire battant pavillon d’un État
Russian
судно под флагом
Spanish
buque de pabellón
Arabic
السفينة حاملة العلم

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