CELEX: 62014TB0180
Language: en
Date: 2018-07-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-180/14: Order of the General Court of 19 July 2018 — Front Polisario v Council (Action for annulment — Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco — Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities provided for in that agreement — Act concluding the agreement — Applicability of the agreement and protocol to the territory of Western Sahara and the waters adjacent thereto — Lack of standing to bring proceedings — Inadmissibility)

22.10.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 381/24
            
         
      Order of the General Court of 19 July 2018 — Front Polisario v Council
      (Case T-180/14) (1)
      
      ((Action for annulment - Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco - Protocol setting out the fishing opportunities provided for in that agreement - Act concluding the agreement - Applicability of the agreement and protocol to the territory of Western Sahara and the waters adjacent thereto - Lack of standing to bring proceedings - Inadmissibility))
      (2018/C 381/28)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Front populaire pour la libération de la Saguia-el-Hamra et du Rio de Oro (Front Polisario) (represented by: G. Devers, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: S. Kyriakopoulou, A. de Elera-San Miguel Hurtado and A. Westerhof Löfflerová, acting as Agents)
      
         Party intervening in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Bouquet, F. Castillo de la Torre and E. Paasivirta, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought under Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of, first, Council Decision 2013/785/EU of 16 December 2013 on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Protocol between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco (OJ 2013 L 349, p. 1) and, second, Commission Decision (EU) 2018/393 of 12 March 2018 approving, on behalf of the European Union, amendments to the Protocol between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco setting out the fishing opportunities and financial contribution provided for in the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco (OJ 2018 L 69, p. 60).
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      The Court orders:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  The action is dismissed.
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  The Front populaire pour la libération de la Saguia-el-Hanra et du Rio de Oro (Front Polisario) shall pay, in addition to its own costs, those incurred by the Council of the European Union.
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  The European Commission shall bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 184, 6.6.2014.