ECJ IRELAND DIGITAL CFP MONITORING CENSURE
December 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has censured Ireland for failing over many years to communicate crucial fishing data by computer to the European Commission. Judges said that by delaying until this year the installation of computer data equipment that was supposed to be in place by 1999, Ireland had "failed to fulfil its obligations" under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Dublin pleaded "deficiencies in the staffing resources necessary to perform the required data entry functions, data compilation and reporting, and problems ...
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