{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-517/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-517/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/517",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 517/2008 of 10 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 850/98 as regards the determination of the mesh size and assessing the thickness of twine of fishing nets",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-517",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Calibration instruments for the mesh gauge",
  "text": "A fisheries administration must ensure that the calibrated test weights and calibrated test measuring plate provided for in figure 1 of Annex V are certified by the appropriate certification authority and marked ‘EC’.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 12(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 12(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 12(4)(c) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1312, regs. 1(2), 9(3)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/517/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:14.793497+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."
}