Press Release: Commission welcomes Court ruling on continued failure by France to comply with fisheries obligations

The European Commission welcomed the decision by the European Court of Justice on 12 July 2005 to request France to pay a lump sum of €20 million and a periodic 6-month penalty of €57,761,250 running from that date, for failing to comply with a 1991 Court ruling on serious shortcomings in its enforcement of fisheries rules. This was the first time that a Member State had to pay both a lump sum and a penalty for persistent failings in its implementation of Community legislation.

European Court of Justice: Case-Law: Search form: Case C-304/02, 12.7.05 http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en&Submit=Submit&alldocs=alldocs&docj=docj&docop=docop&docor=docor&docjo=docjo&numaff=C-304%2F02&datefs=&datefe=&nomusuel=&domaine=&mots=&resmax=100

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