Opinion of Mrs Advocate General Rozès delivered on 28 April 1983 1594

1 Translated from the French.

2 No device shall be used by means of which the mesh in any part of a fishing-net is obstructed or otherwise effectively diminished. This provision does not exclude the use of the devices referred to in the detailed implementing rules to be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 20.

3 Official Journal 1980, L 258, 1. 10. 1980, p. 1.

4 Judgment of 16 February 1978 in Case 71/77 [1978] ECR 417.

5 Judgment of 5 May 1981 in Case 804/79 [1981] ECR 1045; confirmed by the judgments of 16 December 1981 in Regina v Tymen [1981] ECR 3081 and of 30 November 1982 in Regina v Noble Kerr [1982] ECR

6 Judgment in Tymen, cited above, [1981] ECR 3092, paragraph 11.

7 Judgment in Tymen, cited above, [1981] ECR at p. 3095.