# 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, Article 1

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

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:
(a) towed gear with a mesh size of less than 32 mm;
(b) purse seines; or
(c) gillnets, entangling nets, trammel nets and drift nets with a mesh size of less than 30 mm.’

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2017/1393/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-1393/article-1
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