{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1393/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1393/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2017/1393",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1393 of 24 May 2017 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1395/2014 establishing a discard plan for certain small pelagic fisheries and fisheries for industrial purposes in the North Sea",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1393",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1395/2014, the following Article 4a is inserted:\n‘Technical measures for sprat fisheries in an area along the Danish North Sea coast\nArticle 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:\n(a) towed gear with a mesh size of less than 32 mm;\n(b) purse seines; or\n(c) gillnets, entangling nets, trammel nets and drift nets with a mesh size of less than 30 mm.’",
  "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/2017/1393/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:44.153684+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."
}