{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2239/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2239/article-11.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/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Specific technical measures in the West of Scotland",
  "text": "1. From 1 July 2020, fishing vessels operating with bottom trawls or seines in ICES divisions 6a and 5b, within the United Kingdom waters, East of 12°W (West of Scotland) shall comply with the following technical measures:\n(a) mandatory use of a square mesh panel (positioning retained) of at least 300 mm for vessels deploying a cod-end mesh size less than 100 mm; for vessels below 12 m in length over all and/or with engine power of 200 kW or less, the panel overall length may be 2 m and the panel 200 mm in Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) fisheries;\n(b) mandatory use of a square mesh panel (positioning retained) of at least 160 mm for vessels deploying a cod-end mesh size of 100-119 mm and if catches comprising more than 30 % of Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus).\n2. 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 measures set out in paragraph 1 may be used as an alternative to those measures.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 11(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1542), regs. 1(3), 6(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 11(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1542), regs. 1(3), 6(9)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/2239/article/11",
    "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."
}