WRITTEN QUESTION E-2468/01 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. Spanish Government appeal to the Court of Justice against the recuperation plan for fisheries in Community waters.
Date: 2001-09-11
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU waters, Spain, action for annulment (EU), catch quota, conservation of fish stocks, fishing controls, fishing regulations, sea fish

C 81 E/180

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

4.4.2002

(2002/C 81 E/212)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2468/01

by Camilo Nogueira RomÆn (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

(11 September 2001)

Subject: Spanish Government appeal to the Court of Justice against the recuperation plan for fisheries in

Community waters

The Spanish Government(cid:146)s response to a question from Guilherme Vazquez, a Galician BNG member of
the Spanish Congress, to the effect that it has lodged an appeal with the Court of Justice against the
fisheries recovery programme adopted by the European Union, flat contradicts the government(cid:146)s having
accepted, within the Council of Fisheries(cid:146) Ministers, that in 2001 there should be a 47 % cut in catches in
the sole, the Bay of Biscay and the West of Scotland, areas much frequented by the Galician fishing fleet. Is
the Commission aware of the Spanish appeal to the Court of Justice, and the arguments on which it rests?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(2 October 2001)

It is true that Spain has presented an application to the Court of Justice for the annulment of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1162/2001 of 14 June 2001 establishing measures for the recovery of the stock of
hake in ICES sub-areas III, IV, V, VI and VII and ICES divisions VIII a, b, d and e and associated conditions
for the control of activities of fishing vessels (1) which has been registered under No C-304/01.

Spain has put forward as legal grounds for its application the lack of a sufficient legal basis for the
Commission to adopt
the principle of non-
the Regulation in question and, secondly, breach of
discrimination laid down in Article 12 (ex Article 6) of the EC treaty and the absence of justification for the
measures introduced by the Regulation.

The Commission will present, within the time set, its statement of defence in respect of the application.

(1) OJ L 159, 15.6.2001.

(2002/C 81 E/213)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-2469/01

by Michl Ebner (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(3 September 2001)

Subject: Continuation of the Alemagna road link

With reference to the Commission(cid:146)s answer to Question E-0814/01 (1):

(cid:129) does the Commission confirm in principle the statements it made in that reply?

(cid:129) has there been progress in the signing of the Alpine Convention protocol since the abovementioned

reply?

(cid:129) we hope that the Commission is not intending to concentrate on other projects in the Alpine area
despite the fact that there are already priority projects for this region, such as the Brenner Basis
Tunnel (point 1 of the 14-point list of trans-European networks), needing to be implemented as soon
as possible in order, for example, to deal with the increasing volume of transit traffic on the Brenner
route.

(1) OJ C 318 E, 13.11.2001, p. 126.