SPAIN ECJ
December 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE SPANISH government has become the latest European Union (EU) government to be censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to implement mandated EU fishing quota administration, monitoring and inspections. The court found that Spain had also failed to prevent fishing after quotas had been exhausted, and not taken "penal or administrative measures against the captains of ships (or any one else responsible) for breaking these limits". Basing these errors on evidence gathered on the fishing years from 1990 to 1997, the court listed ...
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