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Commission Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 of 19 March 2002 establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stock of hake in ICES sub-areas III, IV, V, VI and VII and ICES divisions VIII a, b, d, e
Consolidated text: Commission Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 of 19 March 2002 establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stock of hake in ICES sub-areas III, IV, V, VI and VII and ICES divisions VIII a, b, d, e
Commission Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 of 19 March 2002 establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stock of hake in ICES sub-areas III, IV, V, VI and VII and ICES divisions VIII a, b, d, e
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 494/2002
of 19 March 2002
establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stock of hake in ICES sub-areas III, IV, V, VI and VII and ICES divisions VIII a, b, d, e
Article 1
This Regulation shall apply to fishing vessels operating within ICES sub-areas V and VI and ICES divisions VII b, c, f, g, h, j, k and ICES divisions VIII a, b, d, e.
Article 1a
For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘unintended catches’ means incidental catches of marine organisms that, under Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 ), must be landed and counted against quotas either because they are below the minimum conservation reference size or because they exceed the quantities permitted under the catch composition and by-catch rules.
Article 2
Article 3
It shall be prohibited to use:
except in ICES sub-areas V and VI, any cod-end and/or extension piece of any towed net except beam trawls of mesh size greater than 55 mm which is not constructed of single-twine netting material of which no twine is of thickness greater than 6 mm or of double-twine netting material of which no twine is of thickness greater than 4 mm;
any demersal towed net other than beam trawl incorporating a cod-end of mesh size range 70 to 89 mm having more than 120 meshes in any circumference of the said cod-end excluding the joinings and selvages;
any demersal towed net which includes any individual quadrilateral mesh of which the bars of the mesh are not of approximately equal length;
any demersal towed net to which a cod-end of mesh size less than 100 mm is attached by any means other than being sewn into that part of the net anterior to the cod-end.
Article 4
It shall be prohibited to carry on board or deploy any beam trawl of mesh size equal to or greater than 70 mm unless the entire upper half of the anterior part of such a net consists of a panel of netting material of which no individual mesh is of mesh size less than 180 mm attached:
The panel of netting shall extend towards the posterior of the net for at least the number of meshes determined by:
dividing the length in metres of the beam of the net by 12;
multiplying the result obtained in (a) by 5400;
dividing the result obtained in (b) by the mesh size, in millimetres, of the smallest mesh in the panel;
ignoring any decimal or other fractions in the result obtained in (c).
Article 5
For the purposes of paragraph 2, the following geographical areas are defined:
the area enclosed by straight lines sequentially joining the following geographical coordinates and excluding any part of that area situated within the limit of 12 nautical miles calculated from the baselines of Ireland:
the area enclosed by straight lines sequentially joining the following geographical coordinates and excluding any part of that area situated within the limit of 12 nautical miles calculated from the baselines of France:
Within the areas defined in paragraph 1:
Within the area defined in paragraph 1(a):
Within the area defined in paragraph 1(b):
Article 6
Article 7
This Regulation shall enter into force the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall be applicable from 1 March 2002.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
( 1 ) OJ L 125, 27.4.1998, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 137, 19.5.2001, p. 1.
( 3 ) OJ L 159, 14.6.2001, p. 4.
( 4 ) Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22).
( 5 ) OJ L 261, 20.10.1993, p. 1.