{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1984-3440/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1984-3440/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1984/3440",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3440/84 of 6 December 1984 on the attachment of devices to trawls, Danish seines and similar nets",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1984-3440",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Flapper",
  "text": "1. A flapper is a piece of netting with a mesh size at least equal to that of the codend, fastened inside a trawl, in such a way that it allows catches to pass from the front to the rear of the trawl but limits their possibility of return.\n2. The flapper shall be attached at its front end and may be attached at its lateral edges inside the codend or in front of the codend.\n3. The distance from the point of forward attachment of the flapper to the rear end of the codend shall be at least three times the length of the flapper.\n4. In the Skagerrak and the Kattegat the length of the flapper shall not extend more than the length of 20 meshes into the codend.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2122/89 of 14 July 1989 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3440/84 on the attachment of devices to trawls, Danish seines and similar nets."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1984/3440/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:05:55.214129+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}