SPANISH GOVERNMENT REBUFFED BY EU JUDGES AGAIN OVER FISHING RIGHTS ROW
May 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLSPANISH government claims that European Union (EU) Common Fisheries Policy conservation and monitoring controls agreed in 2003 were illegal because its representatives were not invited to a key committee meeting in the Spanish language have been rejected by the European Court of Justice. Madrid argued that because only English, French and German were used to invite EU member states to a meeting of the European Commission Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture, it was not "officially invited to attend". Because of this and that proposals discussed ...
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