CELEX: C2005/082/29
Language: en
Date: 2005-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-38/05: Action brought on 1 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against Ireland

2.4.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 82/14
            
         Action brought on 1 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities against Ireland
   (Case C-38/05)
   (2005/C 82/29)
   Language of procedure: English
   An action against Ireland was brought before the Court of Justice of the European Communities on 1 February 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities, represented by Mr Barry Doherty, acting as agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg.
   The Commission requests the Court
   
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               to declare that Ireland has breached its obligations under Articles 15 (4), 18 (1), 19i first and third indents of Council Regulation (EEC) 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy (1), by failing to communicate the data required by those provisions for the years 1999 and 2000; and
            
         
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               to order Ireland to pay the costs of these proceedings.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments:
   Articles 15(4), 18(1) and 19i of Regulation 2847/93 require the Member States to transmit certain date by computer transmission within a specific deadline. It is essential that the Commission has this data available in order to manage and develop the common fisheries policy, in particular with regard to conservation, management and exploitation of living aquatic resources.
   Ireland did not communicate the data required by the aforementioned Articles for the years 1999 or 2000 and is therefore in breach of its obligations.
   
      (1)  OJ L 261, 20.10.1993, p. 1