# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/905 of 13 March 2019 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/2034 establishing a discard plan for certain demersal fisheries in North-Western waters for the period 2019-2021, Article 1

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

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/2034 is amended as follows:
(1) In Article 2, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:
‘2. “Seltra panel” means a selectivity device which:
(a) consists of a top panel of at least 270 mm mesh size (diamond mesh) or a top panel of at least 300 mm mesh size (square mesh), placed in a four-panel box section, in the straight section of a cod end;
(b) is at least 3 metres long;
(c) is positioned no more than 4 metres from the cod line; and
(d) is the full width of the top sheet of the box section of the trawl (i.e. from selvedge to selvedge).’
(2) In Article 3(1), point (d) is replaced by the following:
‘(d)
Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) caught with otter trawls with a mesh size of 80-110 mm in ICES division 6a within twelve nautical miles of the coast.’
(3) In Article 10(4), the second sentence is replaced by the following:
‘This provision shall not apply to vessels with catches comprising more than 30 % of Norway lobster or more than 85 % of Queen scallops.’

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/905/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-905/article-1
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