
Article 1 
Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 88/98 shall be replaced by the following:
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3. It shall be prohibited throughout the year, to fish with any trawl, Danish seine and similar net in the geographical area bounded by a line joining the following coordinates:
 54° 23′ N, 14° 35′ E,
 54° 21′ N, 14° 40′ E,
 54° 17′ N, 14° 33′ E,
 54° 07′ N, 14° 25′ E,
 54° 10′ N, 14° 21′ E,
 54° 14′ N, 14° 25′ E,
 54° 17′ N, 14° 17′ E,
 54° 24′ N, 14° 11′ E,
 54° 27′ N, 14° 25′ E,
 54° 23′ N, 14° 35′ E'.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 17 February 2005.
For the Council
The President
J.-C. JUNCKER