CELEX: 62017CA0611
Language: en
Date: 2019-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-611/17: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 30 April 2019 — Italian Republic v Council of the European Union (Actions for annulment — Common fisheries policy — Conservation of resources — International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas — Total allowable catch (TAC) for Mediterranean swordfish — Regulation (EU) 2017/1398 — Fixing of fishing opportunities for 2017 — Exclusive competence of the European Union — Determination of the reference period — Reliability of the basic facts — Scope of judicial review — Article 17 TEU — Management of the EU’s interests within international bodies — Principle of relative stability — Conditions under which applicable — Principles of non-retroactivity, legal certainty, legitimate expectation and non-discrimination)

1.7.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 220/3
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 30 April 2019 — Italian Republic v Council of the European Union
      (Case C-611/17) (1)
      
      (Actions for annulment - Common fisheries policy - Conservation of resources - International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas - Total allowable catch (TAC) for Mediterranean swordfish - Regulation (EU) 2017/1398 - Fixing of fishing opportunities for 2017 - Exclusive competence of the European Union - Determination of the reference period - Reliability of the basic facts - Scope of judicial review - Article 17 TEU - Management of the EU’s interests within international bodies - Principle of relative stability - Conditions under which applicable - Principles of non-retroactivity, legal certainty, legitimate expectation and non-discrimination)
      (2019/C 220/04)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Italian Republic (represented by: G. Palmieri, acting as Agent, assisted by P. Gentili, avvocato dello Stato)
      
         Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: F. Naert and E. Moro, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially by: V. Ester Casas and subsequently by M.J. García-Valdecasas Dorrego, acting as Agents), European Commission (represented by: F. Moro and A. Stobiecka-Kuik, acting as Agents)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the Italian Republic to pay, in addition to its own costs, the costs incurred by the Council of the European Union;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain and the Commission to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 424, 11.12.2017.