CELEX: 62005CJ0179
Language: en
Date: 2006-01-12
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 January 2006. # Commission of the European Communities v French Republic. # Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 - Control system in the fisheries sector - Information on catches and fishing effort. # Case C-179/05.

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 January 2006 – Commission v France
      (Case C-179/05)
      Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 – Control system in the fisheries sector – Information on catches and fishing effort
      Member States – Obligations under Community law – Failure to fulfil obligations – National legal system pleaded as justification – Not permissible (Art. 226 EC) (see para. 8)
      Re:
      
         
               Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Infringement of Article 18(1) and the first and third indents of Article
                  19i of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries
                  policy (OJ 1993 L 261, p. 1) – Failure to provide the prescribed information
               
            Operative part:
      The Court:
      
         
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                  Declares that by failing to provide the information required under the first and third indents of Article 19i 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 2635/97 of 18 December 1997, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that
                     regulation;
                  
               
            
         
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                  Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.