DENMARK – ECJ
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLDENMARK has become the latest European Union (EU) member state to be hauled over the coals by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to properly police EU fishing rules in its waters. As with other cases of this type - for instance against Britain - judges have censured the Danes for a variety of offences against the Common Fishing Policy (CFP), going back many years. The court ruled that Denmark had failed to properly assign quotas in 1988, 1990-2, 1994, and 1995-7, for example. It had also not effectively monitored fishing, the landing ...
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