Order — ECLI:EU:T:1999:141
Date: 1999-07-08
Language of the case: Spanish
Court formation: Third Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;Fisheries policy
Concepts: Applications by natural or legal persons;General
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Spain

Summary of the O r d e r 
Procedure — Intervention — Persons having an interest — Case concerning the annulment of a 
regulation in the field of conservation and management of fishery resources in the North-West 
Atlantic — Xunta de Galicia — Whether admissible — Absence of pleas in law and legal argu­
ments in the application to intervene — Not relevant 
(EEC Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 37, second para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of 
First Instance, Art. 115) 
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SUMMARY — CASE T-194/95 INTV I 
Under the second paragraph of Article 37 of 
the Statute of the Court of Justice, the right 
to intervene in cases before the Court of First 
Instance is open to any person establishing 
an interest in the result of the case. 
The Xunta de Galicia must therefore be 
granted leave to intervene in a case concern­
ing the annulment of Regulation N o 1761/95 
amending, for the second time, Regulation 
N o 3366/94 laying down for 1995 certain 
conservation and management measures for 
fishery resources in the Regulatory Area as 
defined in the Convention on Future Multi­
lateral Cooperation in the North-West 
Atlantic Fisheries, inasmuch as it establishes 
the quota for Greenland halibut for the 
Community fleet. First, the economic and 
social structure of the Autonomous Commu­
nity of Galicia relies essentially on the fish­
ing industry and, secondly, under the Spanish 
Constitution of 1978 and its Statute of 
Autonomy it is incumbent on that Commu­
nity to defend its identity and its interests not 
only before national bodies but also before 
international bodies whose decisions could 
affect it. 
Moreover, the application to intervene sub­
mitted by the Autonomous Community of 
Galicia cannot be declared inadmissible on 
the ground that it does not include a brief 
statement of the pleas and arguments on 
which it intends to rely, since such a state­
ment is not one of the conditions under Arti­
cle 115 of the Rules of Procedure of the 
Court of First Instance. 
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