# C_2005045EN.01000201.xml

| 19.2.2005 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 45/2 |
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JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE

(Third Chamber)

of 16 December 2004

in Case C-271/02: Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of Sweden( 1 )

(Failure to fulfil obligations - Fishing - Conservation and management of resources - Measures to control fishing activity)

(2005/C 45/03)

Language of the case: Swedish

In Case C-271/02: Commission of the European Communities (Agents: T. van Rijn and C. Tufvesson) against Kingdom of Sweden (Agents: A. Kruse and A. Falk) – action for failure to fulfil obligations under Article 226 EC, brought on 24 July 2002 – the Court of Justice (Third Chamber), composed of A. Rosas, President of the Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet (Rapporteur), S. von Bahr, U. Lõhmus and A. Ó Caoimh, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General, R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 16 December 2004, in which it:

| 1. | Declares that, by failing, for the years 1995 and 1996:
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to adopt the appropriate implementing measures for using availabilities allocated to it and to proceed with the inspections and other control measures required by the applicable Community rules, —
to adopt all effective measures to prevent availabilities' being exceeded, —
to take all administrative or penal measures which it was required to impose against captains of vessels having violated those rules or against any other person responsible for such a violation, the Kingdom of Sweden has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 9(2) of Council Regulation No 3760/92 of 20 December 1992 establishing a Community system for fisheries and aquaculture, 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 implementing measures for using availabilities allocated to it and to proceed with the inspections and other control measures required by the applicable Community rules, | — | to adopt all effective measures to prevent availabilities' being exceeded, | — | to take all administrative or penal measures which it was required to impose against captains of vessels having violated those rules or against any other person responsible for such a violation, |
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| — | to adopt the appropriate implementing measures for using availabilities allocated to it and to proceed with the inspections and other control measures required by the applicable Community rules, | | | | | | |
| — | to adopt all effective measures to prevent availabilities' being exceeded, | | | | | | |
| — | to take all administrative or penal measures which it was required to impose against captains of vessels having violated those rules or against any other person responsible for such a violation, | | | | | | |

| 2. | Orders the Kingdom of Sweden to pay the costs. |
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( 1 )  OJ C 289 of 23.11.2002.

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