CELEX: 62008CJ0232
Language: en
Date: 2009-10-15
Title: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 October 2009. # Commission of the European Communities v Kingdom of the Netherlands. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Regulation (EC) No 850/1998 - Article 29(2) - Restrictions on fishing for plaice - Maximum engine power of fishing vessels - Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 - Article 2(1) - Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 - Article 23 - Control, and enforcement of the rules. # Case C-232/08.

Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 15 October 2009 – Commission v Netherlands
      (Case C‑232/08)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Regulation (EC) No 850/1998 – Article 29(2) – Restrictions on fishing for plaice – Maximum engine power of fishing vessels – Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 – Article 2(1) – Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 – Article 23 – Application of control and enforcement of the rules
      Fisheries – Conservation of the resources of the sea – Technical conservation measures – Restrictions on fishing for plaice (Council Regulations No 2847/93, Art. 2(1), No 850/98, Art. 29(2), and No 2371/2002, Art.
         23) (see paras 41-54)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Infringement of Article 29(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 850/98 of 30
                  March 1998 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine
                  organisms, Article 23 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 of 20 December 2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation
                  of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy and Article 2(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October
                  1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy – Fishing for plaice – Inspection and control
                  of fishing vessels and their activities – Responsibility of the Member States.
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that, by allowing fishing vessels to have a higher engine power than permitted under Article 29(2) of Council Regulation
                     (EC) No 850/98 of 30 March 1998 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of
                     juveniles of marine organisms, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2166/2005 of 20 December 2005, the Kingdom of the
                     Netherlands has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 23 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2371/2002 of 20 December 2002
                     on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy and Article 2(1)
                     of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries
                     policy, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 768/2005 of 26 April 2005;
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands to pay the costs.