# C_2005019EN.01000302.xml

| 22.1.2005 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 19/3 |
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JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Third Chamber)

of 2 December 2004

in Case C-42/03: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Spain( 1 )

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Conservation and management of resources - Control measures for fishing activities)

(2005/C 19/05)

Language of the case: Spanish

In Case C-42/03: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: T. van Rijn and S. Pardo Quintillán) v Kingdom of Spain (Agent: N. Díaz Abad) – ACTION under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 4 February 2003 – the Court (Third Chamber), composed of: A. Rosas, President of Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet (Rapporteur), S. von Bahr, J. Malenovský and U. Lõhmus, Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 2 December 2004, in which it:

| 1. | Declares that, for each fishing year 1990 to 1997, by failing:
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to adopt the appropriate methods for the use of the quotas assigned to it and to carry out the inspections and other checks required by the applicable Community regulations, —
provisionally to prohibit fishing upon exhaustion of the quotas, and —
to take all penal or administrative measures which it was required to apply to masters of vessels infringing those regulations or to any other person liable for such infringement, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 5(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 170/83 of 25 January 1983 establishing a Community system for the conservation and management of fishery resources, Article 9(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92 of 20 December 1992 establishing a Community system for fisheries and aquaculture, Articles 1 and 11(1) and (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2241/87 of 23 July 1987 establishing certain control measures for fishing activities and Articles 2, 21(1) and (2) and 31 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy. | — | to adopt the appropriate methods for the use of the quotas assigned to it and to carry out the inspections and other checks required by the applicable Community regulations, | — | provisionally to prohibit fishing upon exhaustion of the quotas, and | — | to take all penal or administrative measures which it was required to apply to masters of vessels infringing those regulations or to any other person liable for such infringement, |
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| — | to adopt the appropriate methods for the use of the quotas assigned to it and to carry out the inspections and other checks required by the applicable Community regulations, | | | | | | |
| — | provisionally to prohibit fishing upon exhaustion of the quotas, and | | | | | | |
| — | to take all penal or administrative measures which it was required to apply to masters of vessels infringing those regulations or to any other person liable for such infringement, | | | | | | |

| 2. | Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs. |
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( 1 )  OJ C 101, 26.4.2002.

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