{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2239/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2239/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/2239",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2239 of 1 October 2019 specifying details of the landing obligation for certain demersal fisheries in North-Western waters for the period 2020-2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2239",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Specific technical measures in the Irish Sea",
  "text": "1. Fishing vessels operating with bottom trawls or seines in ICES division 7a (Irish Sea) shall comply with the technical measures set out in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4.\n2. Vessels operating with bottom trawls or seines with a cod-end mesh size equal to or larger than 70 mm and smaller than 100 mm and with catches comprising more than 5 % of Norway lobster shall use one of the following gear options:\n(a) 300 mm square mesh panel; vessels below 12 meters in length over all may use a 200 mm squared mesh panel;\n(b) Seltra panel;\n(c) Sorting grid with 35 mm bar spacing as referred to in Annex VI Part B to Regulation (EU) 2019/1241;\n(d) CEFAS Netgrid;\n(e) Flip-flap trawl.\n3. Vessels equal to or greater than 12 meters in length over all operating with bottom trawls or seines with catches comprising more than 10 % of haddock, cod and skates and rays combined, shall use one of the following gear options:\n(a) 120 mm cod-end;\n(b) an eliminator trawl with 600 mm large mesh panels and a 100 mm cod-end.\n4. Vessels equal to or greater than 12 meters in length over all operating with bottom trawls or seines with catches comprising less than 10 % of haddock, cod and skates and rays combined shall apply a cod-end mesh size of 100 mm with a 100 mm squared mesh panel. This provision shall not apply to vessels with catches comprising more than 30 % of Norway lobster or more than 85 % of Queen scallops.\n5. A selective gear or device assessed by a fisheries administration as having the same or higher selectivity characteristics for cod, haddock and whiting than the gear options set out in pargraphs 1 to 4 may be used as an alternative to those gear options",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1542), regs. 1(3), 6(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/2239/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:52.867546+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."
}