CELEX: C2005/143/14
Language: en
Date: 2005-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 April 2005 in Case C-22/04 Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 — Fishing vessels — Establishment of a satellite-based position monitoring system — Failure to transpose within the prescribed periods)

11.6.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 143/12
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 14 April 2005
   in Case C-22/04 Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (1)
   
   (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 - Fishing vessels - Establishment of a satellite-based position monitoring system - Failure to transpose within the prescribed periods)
   (2005/C 143/14)
   Language of the case: Greek
   In Case C-22/04 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M Condou-Durande and T. van Rijn) v Hellenic Republic (Agents: A. Samoni-Rantou and S. Chala) — action under Article 226 EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 26 January 2004 — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of R. Silva de Lapuerta, President of the Chamber, J. Makarczyk and P. Kūris (Rapporteur), Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; H. von Holstein, Deputy Registrar, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 14 April 2005, in which it:
   
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               Declares that by failing to ensure that fishing vessels which fly its flag and must be equipped with satellite-tracking devices were in fact equipped with such devices, according to the type of vessel concerned, on 30 June 1998 or 1 January 2000, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 3 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 686/97 of 14 April 1997;
            
         
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               Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 85 of 3.4.2004.