Article 1
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2462 is amended as follows: (1) Article 3 is amended as follows: (a) in paragraph 1, the following points (f), (g) and (h) are added: ‘(f) Venus shells ( Venus spp.) caught with mechanised dredges (HMD); (g) Norway lobster ( Nephrops norvegicus ) caught with all bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, PTB, TBN, TBS, TB, OT, PT, TX), from January to June and September to December; (h) Norway lobster ( Nephrops norvegicus ) caught with pots and traps (FPO, FIX).’; (b) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. Scallop ( Pecten jacobeus ), Carpet clams ( Venerupis spp.), red sea bream ( Pagellus bogaraveo ), lobster ( Homarus gammarus ), crawfish ( Palinuridae) , Venus shells ( Venus spp.) and Norway lobster ( Nephrops norvegicus ) caught in the circumstances referred to in paragraph 1 shall be released immediately in the area where they have been caught.’ ; (2) in Article 4, first paragraph, the following point (f) is added: ‘(f) for deep-water shrimps (blue and red shrimps ( Aristeus antennatus ) and giant red shrimps ( Aristaeomorpha foliacea )), up to a maximum of 1 % of the total annual catches of those species caught by vessels using bottom trawls (OTB, OTT, PTB, TBN, TBS, TB, OT, PT, TX).’.