1. This Regulation shall apply to fishing vessels operating with bottom trawls or seines in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) divisions VIIf, VIIg and the part of VIIj that lies north of latitude 50° N and east of 11° W (hereinafter the ‘Celtic Sea’), where:

bottom trawls and seines are of single mesh size equal to or larger than 100 millimetres (hereinafter ‘TR1 vessels’);

bottom trawls and seines are of single mesh size equal or larger than 70 millimetres and less than 100 millimetres (hereinafter ‘TR2 vessels’); or

where the vessel using bottom trawls or seines has an engine power of less than 112 kilowatts (hereinafter ‘low-powered vessels’).

2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to fishing vessels operating with beam trawls.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 737/2012 of 14 August 2012 on the protection of certain stocks in the Celtic Sea