
Article 1 
In Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1395/2014, the following Article 4a is inserted:
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Article 4a 
By way of derogation from paragraph 3 of Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 850/98, fishing for sprat with the following fishing gears shall be authorised in the area along the Danish North Sea coast defined in paragraph (1)(c) of that Article:

((a)) towed gear with a mesh size of less than 32 mm;
((b)) purse seines; or
((c)) gillnets, entangling nets, trammel nets and drift nets with a mesh size of less than 30 mm.'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation should be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 24 May 2017.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER