L 102/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 12.4.2001 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 724/2001 of 4 April 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 850/98 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 37 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ('), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas: (1) For the effective performance of various types of fishing activity and for the conservation of fishery resources, certain conditions established in Regulation (EC) No 850/98 (* should be clarified or corrected. (2)  Regulation (EC) No 850/98 should therefore be amended accordingly, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 850/98 is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 4(4)(b) shall be replaced by: ‘(b) For each fishing voyage, during which only towed nets of one range of mesh size are used, landings shall be prohibited whenever the catch taken in each of the regions or geographical areas mentioned in Annexes I to V, and retained on board, does not comply with the corresponding conditions laid down in the relevant annex.’; 2. Article 5(5) shall be deleted; 3. Article 6(1)(a) shall be replaced by: ‘1. (a) The carrying on board or the use of any demersal trawl, Danish seine or similar towed net having more than 100 meshes in any circumference of the cod-end stricto sensu, excluding the joinings and () O] C 365 E, 19.12.2000, p. 264. (¥ Opinion delivered on 1 March 2001 (not yet published in the Offi- cial Journal). (*) Opinion delivered on 20 December 2000 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (*) OJ L 125, 27.4.1998, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regula- tion (EC) No 12982000 (O] L 148, 22.6.2000, p. 1). selvedges shall be prohibited. This provision shall apply to demersal trawls, Danish seines or similar towed nets of which the mesh size lies within the range 90 to 119 millimetres.; 4. in Article 7, (a) paragraph 4 shall be replaced by: ‘4. Notwithstanding paragraph 1(a), any demersal trawl, Danish seine or similar towed net of which the mesh size lies in the range 70 to 79 millimetres shall be equipped with a square-meshed panel having a mesh size equal to, or greater than, 80 millimetres.; (b) the following text shall be added to the end of para- graph 5: ‘or with a sorting grid whose use is established under the conditions laid down in Article 46.; 5. Article 10 shall be replaced by: ‘Article 10 Dredges are exempted from the provisions of Article 4. However, it shall be prohibited during any voyage when dredges are carried on board, (a) to tranship marine organisms and (b) to retain on board or land any quantity of marine organisms unless at least 95 % by weight thereof consists of bivalve molluscs.; 6. Article 18(4) shall be replaced by: ‘4. (a) For catches of edible crabs made by pots or creels, a maximum of 1 % by weight of the total catch of edible crabs or parts thereof retained on board during any fishing voyage or landed at the end of any fishing voyage may consist of detached crab claws. Cx For catches of edible crabs made by any fishing gear other than pots or creels, a maximum of 75 kg of detached crab claws may be retained on board at any moment in time during a fishing voyage or may be landed at the end of any fishing voyage.’; 7. in Article 22(3), the last subparagraph shall be deleted;