# C_2005132EN.01000202.xml

| 28.5.2005 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 132/2 |
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JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Third Chamber)

of 17 March 2005

in Case C-437/02: Commission of the European Communities against Republic of Finland( 1 )

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Fisheries - Regulations (EEC) Nos 3760/92 and 2847/93 - Conservation and management of fishery resources - Control measures for fishing activities)

(2005/C 132/03)

Language of the case: Finnish

In Case C-437/02, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: T. van Rijn and M. Huttunen) against Republic of Finland (Agents: T. Pynnä and E. Kourula) — action for failure to fulfil obligations under Article 226 EC, brought on 3 December 2002 — the Court (Third Chamber), composed of A. Rosas, President of the Chamber, A. Borg Barthet, A. La Pergola, J.-P. Puissochet (Rapporteur) and A. Ó Caoimh, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 17 March 2005, in which it:

| 1. | Declares that, by failing, for the fishing years 1995 and 1996:
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to enact appropriate detailed rules for the use of the fishing rights allocated to it and to carry out the inspections and other checks required by the applicable Community legislation; —
to prohibit provisionally fishing within the appropriate periods in order to avoid exhausting the quotas, and —
to institute the criminal or administrative measures which it was obliged to take against masters of vessels who infringed the rules relating to the common fisheries policy and against all other persons responsible for such infringements, the Republic of Finland has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 9(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3760/92 of 20 December 1992 establishing a Community system for fisheries and aquaculture, and Articles 2, 21(1) and (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy. | — | to enact appropriate detailed rules for the use of the fishing rights allocated to it and to carry out the inspections and other checks required by the applicable Community legislation; | — | to prohibit provisionally fishing within the appropriate periods in order to avoid exhausting the quotas, and | — | to institute the criminal or administrative measures which it was obliged to take against masters of vessels who infringed the rules relating to the common fisheries policy and against all other persons responsible for such infringements, |
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| — | to enact appropriate detailed rules for the use of the fishing rights allocated to it and to carry out the inspections and other checks required by the applicable Community legislation; | | | | | | |
| — | to prohibit provisionally fishing within the appropriate periods in order to avoid exhausting the quotas, and | | | | | | |
| — | to institute the criminal or administrative measures which it was obliged to take against masters of vessels who infringed the rules relating to the common fisheries policy and against all other persons responsible for such infringements, | | | | | | |

| 2. | Orders the Republic of Finland to pay the costs. |
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( 1 )  OJ C 31 of 08.02.2003.

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