Article 1

In Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1395/2014, the following Article 4a is inserted:

‘Technical measures for sprat fisheries in an area along the Danish North Sea coast

Article 4a

By way of derogation from paragraph 3 of Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 850/98, fishing for sprat with the following fishing gears shall be authorised in the area along the Danish North Sea coast defined in paragraph (1)(c) of that Article:

1. (a)

   towed gear with a mesh size of less than 32 mm;

2. (b)

   purse seines; or

3. (c)

   gillnets, entangling nets, trammel nets and drift nets with a mesh size of less than 30 mm.’