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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1811/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/1811",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1811/2004 of 11 October 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 2287/2003 as concerns the number of days at sea for vessels fishing for haddock in the North Sea and the use of bottom trawls in waters around the Azores, the Canary Islands and Madeira",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1811",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation (EC) No 2287/2003 is hereby amended as follows:\n1.. In Annex IV the following point is added:\n‘19.\nTrawling ban in waters around the Azores, the Canary Islands and Madeira\nVessels shall be prohibited from using any bottom trawl or similar towed nets operating in contact with the bottom of the sea in waters under the sovereignty or the jurisdiction of Member States within the areas bounded by a line joining the following coordinates:\n(a) Azores\nLatitude 36° 00′ N\nlongitude 23° 00′ W\nLatitude 42° 00′ N\nlongitude 23° 00′ W\nLatitude 42° 00′ N\nlongitude 34° 00′ W\nLatitude 36° 00′ N\nlongitude 34° 00′ W\n(b) Canary Islands and Madeira\nLatitude 27° 00′ N\nlongitude 19° 00′ W\nLatitude 26° 00′ N\nlongitude 15° 00′ W\nLatitude 29° 00′ N\nlongitude 13° 00′ W\nLatitude 36° 00′ N\nlongitude 13° 00′ W\nLatitude 36° 00′ N\nlongitude 19° 00′ W\n’.\n2.. In Annex V the following is added in point 6:\n(g) ‘By way of derogation from the number of days referred to in point (a), Table I, “Grouping of fishing gears referred to in point 4a”, Member States may increase the maximum days present within the area and absent from port to 12 for vessels fitted with VMS and holding special fishing permits, referred to in point 17(b) of Annex IV, that are valid one calendar month or more.\nSuch vessels\nshall notify national authorities of the place and time at which any landings of fish will be made at least four hours before such a landing occurs,\nmay only aggregate days as laid down in point (b) for the period that a special fishing permit, referred to in point 17(b) of Annex IV, is held without interruption,\nmay only transfer days as referred to in point 10 to vessels that benefit from an increase of the fishing days in accordance with this point.’.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1811/article/1",
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  "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."
}