EFTA – NORWAY CASE
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLA LAW insisting that at least half of crew members or sharesmen on Norwegian-owned vessels fishing within the 200 mile Norwegian Economic Exclusive Zone of the North Sea be Norway nationals or residents is being challenged by the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority. It has formally threatened Norway with legal action at the EFTA Court, if it does not within two months say how it will amend the 1966 Norwegian Fisheries Act, which imposes this rule. The action follows a complaint made in 2002 about the problem. The surveillance ...
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