{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2238/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2238/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/2238",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2238 of 1 October 2019 specifying details of implementation of the landing obligation for certain demersal fisheries in the North Sea for the period 2020-2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2238",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Survivability exemption for plaice below the minimum conservation reference size",
  "text": "1. The survivability exemption referred to in Article 15(4)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 shall apply in the United Kingdom waters of ICES division 2a and ICES subarea 4 and to catches of plaice below the minimum conservation reference size made with 80-119 mm beam trawls (BT2), if the plaice is caught:\n(a) with gears equipped with the flip-up rope or Benthos release panel (BRP) and caught by vessels with an engine power of more than 221 kW; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n2. The exemption referred to in paragraph 1 shall also apply for flatfish caught with beam trawl gears (BT2) by vessels with an engine power of not more than 221 kw or less than 24 m in length overall, which are constructed to fish in the twelve miles zone, if the average trawl duration is less than ninety minutes.\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n4. When discarding plaice caught in the cases referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, the plaice shall be released immediately.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1542), regs. 1(3), 5(7)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 7(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1542), regs. 1(3), 5(7)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 7(1)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1542), regs. 1(3), 5(7)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 7(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1542), regs. 1(3), 5(7)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/2238/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:52.914728+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."
}