Council Regulation (EC) No. 1239/98 amending Regulation (EC) No. 894/97 laying down certain technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources.

Regulation (EC) No. 894/97 is hereby amended as follows: Article 11 shall be replaced by the following: No vessel may keep on board, or use for fishing, one or more driftnets whose individual or total length is more than 2,5 kilometres. Article 11(a): from 1 January 2002, it is prohibited to land species listed in Annex VIII, until 31 December 2001, a vessel may keep on board, or use for fishing, one or more drift-nets referred to in paragraph 1 after receiving authorization from the competent authorities of the flag Member State. Articles 11(b) and 11(c) are also modified. The text annexed hereto shall be added as Annex VIII.