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.U.K.
(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.”