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Explanatory note

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This Order varies the Bass (Specified Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1990 (“the principal Order”) by substituting for the imperial measurement of 3 cables in the description of the Fawley Power Station area in column 1 of the Schedule to that Order the metric measurement of 556 metres being the nearest suitable metric equivalent measurement. The Order also gives effect to Council Directive 80/181/EEC (OJ No. L39, 15.2.80, p.40) on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to units of measurement, as amended by Council Directives 85/1/EEC (OJ No. L2, 3.1.85, p.11) and 89/617/EEC (OJ No. L357, 7.12.89, p.28), insofar as that Directive affects the principal Order.