{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-906/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-906/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/906",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/906 of 13 March 2019 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/2035 specifying details of implementation of the landing obligation for certain demersal fisheries in the North Sea for the period 2019-2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-906",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/2035 is amended as follows:\n(1) in Article 3(1)(b), the introductory sentence is replaced by the following:\n‘catches with bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, TBN) fitted with:’\n(2) in Article 6(1), point (c), is replaced by the following:\n‘(c)\nplaice caught with bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, PTB) with a mesh size of at least 120 mm when targeting flatfish or roundfish in winter months (from 1 November to 30 April).’;\n(3) Article 9 is amended as follows:\n(a) in point (c), the introductory sentence is replaced by the following:\n‘in the fishery for Norway lobster by vessels using bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, TBN) with a mesh size equal to or larger than 70 mm equipped with a species-selective grid with a bar spacing of maximum 35 mm in Union waters of ICES division 3a:’;\n(b) in point (d), the introductory sentence is replaced by the following:\n‘in the fishery for Northern prawn by vessels using bottom trawls (OTB, OTT) with a mesh size equal to or larger than 35 mm equipped with a species selective grid with a bar spacing of maximum 19 mm, and with unblocked fish outlet, in Union waters of ICES division 3a:’;\n(c) point (e) is replaced by the following:\n‘(e)\nin the mixed demersal fisheries by vessels using bottom trawls or seines (OTB, OTT, SDN, SSC) with a mesh size of 70-99 mm (TR2) in Union waters of ICES division 4c:\na combined quantity of whiting and cod below minimum conservation reference size, which shall not exceed 6 % in 2019 and 5 % in 2020 and 2021 of the total annual catches of whiting and cod; the maximum amount of cod that may be discarded shall be limited to 2 % of those total annual catches;’;\n(d) point (f) is replaced by the following:\n‘(f)\nin the mixed demersal fisheries by vessels using bottom trawls or seines (OTB, OTT, SDN, SSC) with a mesh size of 70-99 mm (TR2) in Union waters of ICES divisions 4a and 4b:\na combined quantity of whiting and cod below minimum conservation reference size, which shall not exceed 6 % in 2019 of the total annual catches of whiting and cod; the maximum amount of cod that may be discarded shall be limited to 2 % of those total annual catches;’\n(e) in point (g), the introductory sentence is replaced by the following:\n‘in fisheries by vessels using bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, TBN, PTB) with a mesh size of 90-119 mm, equipped with Seltra panel, or bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, TBN, PTB) with a mesh size equal to or larger than 120 mm, in Union waters of ICES division 3a:’.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/906/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:21.182684+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."
}