{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-1392/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-1392/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2014/1392",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1392/2014 of 20 October 2014 establishing a discard plan for certain small pelagic fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-1392",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "De minimis exemption",
  "text": "By way of derogation from Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, the following quantities may be discarded:\n(a) in the western Mediterranean Sea, up to 5 % of the total annual catches of species subject to minimum sizes in the small pelagic mid-water trawl and purse seines fisheries set out in point 1 of the Annex;\n(b) in the northern Adriatic Sea, up to 5 % of the total annual catches of species subject to minimum sizes in the small pelagic mid-water trawl and purse seines fisheries set out in point 2 of the Annex;\n(c) in the southern Adriatic and Ionian Sea:\n(i) up to 3 % of the total annual catches of species subject to minimum sizes in the small pelagic purse seines fisheries; and\n(ii) up to 7 % in 2015 and 2016 and up to 6 % in 2017 of the total annual catches of species subject to minimum sizes in the small pelagic mid-water trawl fisheries, set out in point 3 of the Annex;\n(d) in the Malta Island and South of Sicily:\n(i) up to 3 % of the total annual catches of species subject to minimum sizes in the small pelagic purse seines fisheries; and\n(ii) up to 7 % in 2015 and 2016 and up to 6 % in 2017 of the total annual catches of species subject to minimum sizes in the small pelagic mid-water trawl fisheries, set out in point 4 of the Annex;\n(e) in the Aegean Sea and Crete Island, up to 3 % of the total annual catches of species subject to minimum sizes in the small pelagic purse seines fisheries set out in point 5 of the Annex.",
  "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/2014/1392/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:59.379934+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."
}