{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-494/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-494/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2002/494",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 of 19 March 2002 establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stock of hake in ICES sub-areas III, IV, V, VI and VII and ICES divisions VIII a, b, d, e",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-494",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "It shall be prohibited to use:\n(a) except in ICES sub-areas V and VI, any cod-end and/or extension piece of any towed net except beam trawls of mesh size greater than 55 mm which is not constructed of single-twine netting material of which no twine is of thickness greater than 6 mm or of double-twine netting material of which no twine is of thickness greater than 4 mm;\n(b) any demersal towed net other than beam trawl incorporating a cod-end of mesh size range 70 to 89 mm having more than 120 meshes in any circumference of the said cod-end excluding the joinings and selvages;\n(c) any demersal towed net which includes any individual quadrilateral mesh of which the bars of the mesh are not of approximately equal length;\n(d) any demersal towed net to which a cod-end of mesh size less than 100 mm is attached by any means other than being sewn into that part of the net anterior to the cod-end.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/494/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:34.963492+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."
}