CELEX: C2006/143/06
Language: en
Date: 2006-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-87/03 and C-100/03: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of  30 March 2006  — Kingdom of Spain v Council of the European Union (Fisheries — Regulation distributing catch quotas among Member States — Act of accession of Spain — End of the transitional period — Requirement of relative stability — Principle of non-discrimination — New fishing opportunities)

17.6.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 143/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 30 March 2006 — Kingdom of Spain v Council of the European Union
   (Joined Cases C-87/03 and C-100/03) (1)
   
   (Fisheries - Regulation distributing catch quotas among Member States - Act of accession of Spain - End of the transitional period - Requirement of relative stability - Principle of non-discrimination - New fishing opportunities)
   (2006/C 143/06)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: N. Díaz Abad, Agent)
   
      Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: G. Ramos Ruano and F. Florindo Gijón,Agents,)
   
      Interveners: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: T. van Rijn, F. Jimeno Fernandez and S. Pardo Quintillán, Agents), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: D. Wyatt QC and K. Manji, Agent
   Re:
   Partial annulment of Council Regulation (EC) No 2341/2002 of 20 December 2002 fixing for 2003 the fishing opportunities and associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Community waters and, for Community vessels, in waters where catch limitations are required (OJ 2002 L 356, p. 12), in so far as the new fishing opportunities, fixed from 1992 to 1998 for the North Sea and for the Baltic, are not allocated taking account of the interests of Spain, despite the fact that the transitional period has come to an end — Discrimination — Application of Art. 20(2) 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 (OJ 2002 L 358, p. 59).
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the actions;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Commission of the European Communities to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 135, 07.06.2003.