CELEX: 62005TJ0099
Language: en
Date: 2007-05-10 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 10 May 2007. # Kingdom of Spain v Commission of the European Communities. # Fisheries - Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 - Conservation of the resources of the sea - Legal basis - Principle of non-discrimination - Obligation to state reasons. # Case T-99/05.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 10 May 2007 – Spain v Commission
      (Case T-99/05)
      Fisheries – Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 – Conservation of the resources of the sea – Legal basis – Principle of non-discrimination – Obligation to state reasons
      1.                     Acts of the institutions – Choice of legal basis – Criteria – Commission regulation for the recovery of the stock of hake
            (Council Regulation No 3760/92, Art. 15(1), and No 850/98, Art. 45(1); Commission Regulation No 494/2002) (see paras 21-26)
      2.                     Fisheries – Conservation of the resources of the sea – Regulation No 850/98 (Council Regulation No 850/98, Art. 45(1)) (see
            para. 27)
      3.                     Fisheries – Conservation of the resources of the sea – Commission regulation for the recovery of the stock of hake (Council
            Regulation No 850/98; Commission Regulation No 494/2002) (see paras 28-31)
      4.                     Fisheries – Conservation of the resources of the sea – Commission regulation for the recovery of the stock of hake (Commission
            Regulation No 494/2002 Art. 2(2)) (see paras 43-45)
      5.                     Acts of the institutions – Statement of reasons – Obligation – Scope (Art. 253 EC) (see paras 59-61)
      Re: 
      
         ACTION for annulment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 of 19 March 2002 establishing additional technical 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, e (OJ 2002
                  L 77, p. 8)
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs and to pay those of the Commission.