FRANCE FISH CONSERVATION MEASURES ECJ CENSURE
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE has been hit by yet another censure from the European Court of Justice over its failure to properly enforce European Union (EU) fishing conservation rules. Paris is already paying huge fines incurred because of past lax stocks management, and now the court has signalled it may be prepared to sanction further penalties. It found France acted illegally by failing to supply to the European Commission monthly catch landing figures between 1999 and 2002, breaking EU regulation EC 2847/93. If the French government fails to follow EU rules in ...
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