Article 5
1. It is prohibited to deploy any demersal towed net which incorporates: (i) any individual quadrilateral mesh of which the bars of the mesh are not of approximately equal length; (ii) a codend and any extension piece, whose joint stretched length exceeds 36 metres in nets of mesh size equal to or greater than 70 mm; (iii) a codend and any extension piece constructed of more than one sheet of netting material such that the linear dimensions of the top half or top sheet of said codend and extension piece are not equal to the linear dimensions of the bottom half or bottom sheet; (iv) a codend or extension piece or square-meshed panel each of which is not constructed exclusively of only one type of netting material; (v) a codend attached by any means other than being sewn into that part of the net anterior to the codend; (vi) a codend and/or extension piece of mesh size equal to or greater than 55 mm which is not constructed of single-twine netting material of which no twine is of thickness greater than 8 mm or of double-twine netting material of which no twine is of thickness greater than 5 mm. 2. With the exception of beam trawls, it is prohibited to deploy any demersal towed net: (i) of mesh size range 70 to 89 mm having more than 120 meshes in any circumference of the codend excluding the joinings and selvages; (ii) of mesh size greater than 90 mm having more than 100 meshes in any circumference of the codend excluding the joinings and selvages; (iii) of mesh size range 70 to 99 mm unless the upper half of such a net consists of a panel of netting material attached directly to the headline of the net or to no more than three rows of netting material of any mesh size attached directly to the headline, extending towards the posterior of the net for at least 15 meshes and constructed of diamond-meshed netting material of which no individual mesh is of mesh size less than 140 mm; (iv) of mesh size range 70 to 99 mm unless a square-meshed panel of mesh size at least 80 mm is included in such a net in compliance with the conditions laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 850/98. The conditions laid down in paragraphs (iii) and (iv) shall not apply whenever the catch retained on board and taken with a net or nets of mesh size range 80 to 99 mm consist of: - at least 85 % of queen scallops, or - at least 40 % of sole and no more than 5 % of cod. 3. It is prohibited to carry on board or deploy any beam trawl of mesh size equal to or greater than 80 mm unless the entire upper half of the anterior part of such a net consists of a panel of netting material of which no individual mesh is of mesh size less than 180 mm attached: - directly to the headline, or - to no more than three rows of netting material of any mesh size attached directly to the headline. The panel of netting shall extend towards the posterior of the net for at least the number of meshes determined by: (i) dividing the length in metres of the beam of the net by 12; (ii) multiplying the result obtained in (i) by 5400 and (iii) dividing the result obtained in (ii) by the mesh size in millimetres of the smallest mesh in the panel and (iv) ignoring any decimal or other fractions in the result obtained in (iii).