
Article 1 
In Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 850/98, the following paragraph shall be added:
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5. Vessels shall be prohibited from using any gillnet, entangling net or trammel net at depths greater than 200 metres and any bottom trawl or similar towed nets operating in contact with the bottom of the sea in the areas bounded by a line joining the following coordinates:
((a)) area named “Madeira and Canaries”

Latitude 27° 00′ N longitude 19° 00′ W
Latitude 26° 00′ N longitude 15° 00′ W
Latitude 29° 00′ N longitude 13° 00′ W
Latitude 36° 00′ N longitude 13° 00′ W
Latitude 36° 00′ N longitude 19° 00′ W
((b)) area named “Azores”

Latitude 36° 00′ N longitude 23° 00′ W
Latitude 39° 00′ N longitude 23° 00′ W
Latitude 42° 00′ N longitude 26° 00′ W
Latitude 42° 00′ N longitude 31° 00′ W
Latitude 39° 00′ N longitude 34° 00′ W
Latitude 36° 00′ N longitude 34° 00′ W'.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of 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, 20 September 2005.
For the Council
The President
M. BECKETT