# 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, Article 1

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

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/2035 is amended as follows:
(1) in Article 3(1)(b), the introductory sentence is replaced by the following:
‘catches with bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, TBN) fitted with:’
(2) in Article 6(1), point (c), is replaced by the following:
‘(c)
plaice 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).’;
(3) Article 9 is amended as follows:
(a) in point (c), the introductory sentence is replaced by the following:
‘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:’;
(b) in point (d), the introductory sentence is replaced by the following:
‘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:’;
(c) point (e) is replaced by the following:
‘(e)
in 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:
a 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;’;
(d) point (f) is replaced by the following:
‘(f)
in 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:
a 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;’
(e) in point (g), the introductory sentence is replaced by the following:
‘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:’.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/906/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-906/article-1
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