This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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, 8 May 2017.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude JUNCKER

( 1 ) OJ L 125, 27.4.1998, p. 1 .

( 2 ) Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC ( OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22 ).

( 3 ) ICES advice of 3 June 2016, 9.3.43 red seabream in subarea 6, 7 and 8.

( 4 ) ICES advice of 3 June 2016, 9.3.41 red seabream in subarea 9.

( 5 ) ICES WGDEEP Report 2016, page 535.

( 6 ) Council Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006 of 21 December 2006 concerning management measures for the sustainable exploitation of fishery resources in the Mediterranean Sea, amending Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1626/94 ( OJ L 409, 30.12.2006, p. 11 ).

( 7 ) SEC(2002) 888 (Brussels, 16.8.2002) Report of the ad hoc working group on evaluation of recovery plans of Andalucia and Sicily and document SEC (2004) 772, page 406.

( 8 ) Report of STECF, 16-09 — Red seabream_JRC101980, Minimum conservation size for Red Seabream ( Pagellus bogaraveo ) page 9, paragraphs 5, 6 and 7.

( 9 ) Council Regulation (EU) No 1367/2014 of 15 December 2014 fixing for 2015 and 2016 the fishing opportunities for Union fishing vessels for certain deep-sea fish stocks ( OJ L 366, 20.12.2014, p. 1 ).

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/787 of 8 May 2017 establishing a minimum conservation reference size for red seabream in the North-East Atlantic Ocean