{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-1393/article-3a",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/1393",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1393/2014 of 20 October 2014 establishing a discard plan for certain pelagic fisheries in north-western waters",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-1393",
  "path": "article/3a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3a",
  "heading": "De minimis exemptions ...",
  "text": "By way of derogation from Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, the following quantities may be discarded:\n(a)up to a maximum of ... 5 %, ... of the total annual catches of blue whiting ( Micromesistius poutassou ) in the industrial pelagic trawler fishery targeting that species in ICES divisions Vb, VI and VII, and processing that species on board to obtain surimi base;\n(b)up to a maximum of ... 5 % ... of the total annual catches for albacore tuna ( Thunnus alalunga ) in the albacore tuna directed fisheries using midwater pair trawls (PTM) in ICES subarea VII , if the requirement in Article 4 of this Regulation is met;\n(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/190 of 24 November 2017 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1393/2014 establishing a discard plan for certain pelagic fisheries in North-Western waters."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3a(a) omitted (31.12.2021) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (Amendment etc.) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1429), regs. 1(1), 3(4)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3a(a) omitted (31.12.2021) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (Amendment etc.) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1429), regs. 1(1), 3(4)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3a(b) omitted (31.12.2021) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (Amendment etc.) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1429), regs. 1(1), 3(4)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3a(b) omitted (31.12.2021) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (Amendment etc.) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1429), regs. 1(1), 3(4)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3a(b) inserted (31.12.2021) by The Sea Fisheries (Amendment etc.) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1429), regs. 1(1), 3(4)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 3a(c) omitted (28.2.2025) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/92), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3a heading omitted (31.12.2021) by virtue of The Sea Fisheries (Amendment etc.) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1429), regs. 1(1), 3(4)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/1393/article/3a",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:59.353138+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."
}