
Article 1 
Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 894/97 shall be replaced by the following:
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Article 11 

1. “Drift net” means: any gillnet held on the sea surface or at a certain distance below it by floating devices, drifting with the current, either independently or with the boat to which it may be attached. It may be equipped with devices aiming to stabilise the net or to limit its drift.
2. No vessel may keep on board, or use for fishing, one or more drift nets whose individual or total length is more than 2,5 kilometres.'
Article 2 
In Regulation (EC) No 812/2004 the following Article shall be inserted:
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Article 1a 
“Drift net” means: any gillnet held on the sea surface or at a certain distance below it by floating devices, drifting with the current, either independently or with the boat to which it may be attached. It may be equipped with devices aiming to stabilise the net or to limit its drift.'
Article 3 
In Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005, the following point shall be added:
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((o)) “Drift net” means: any gillnet held on the sea surface or at a certain distance below it by floating devices, drifting with the current, either independently or with the boat to which it may be attached. It may be equipped with devices aiming to stabilise the net or to limit its drift.'
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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 Luxembourg, 28 June 2007.
For the Council
The President
S. GABRIEL