Paragraph 12

(1)

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2238 specifying details of implementation of the landing obligation for certain demersal fisheries in the North Sea for the period 2020-2021 is amended as follows.

(2)

In Article 3 (exemptions for Norway lobster)—

(a)

in paragraph 1, omit point (b);

(b)

omit paragraph 3.

(3)

In Article 6 (exemption for plaice)—

(a)

in paragraph 1, omit point (c);

(b)

in paragraph 2, in point (b), for “80-99” substitute “ 80 ”;

(c)

omit paragraph 4.

(4)

In Article 8 (exemption for turbot), omit paragraph 2.

(5)

In Article 10 (de minimis exemptions)—

(a)

in point (f) after “6% in 2020” insert “ and 2021 ”;

(b)

in each of points (f), (h) and (k) to (n), omit the words from “the de minimis” to the end;

(c)

after point (n) insert—

“(o)
in fisheries by vessels using bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, TB, TBN) of mesh size 80-99mm in the United Kingdom waters of ICES subarea 4 and ICES Division 2a:
a quantity of Norway lobster below the minimum conservation reference size, which shall not exceed 2% of the total annual catches of that species.”