Agriculture - 1991

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Commission of the European Communities -v- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Judgment) C-146/89; [1991] EUECJ C-146/89
9 Jul 1991 ECJ	European, Agriculture
	Europa 1. Regulation No 170/83 represents a carefully achieved balance between the system of exclusive access to coastal waters for national fishermen, a system which, in derogation from the principle of equal access, is allowed by the regulation both to continue and to be extended to the zones situated within the 12-mile limit, and the protection of certain activities of fishermen from other Member States within the areas listed in Annex I. That equilibrium, as it results from Article 6, could be compromised if the zones in which the fishing activities defined and authorized therein are carried out were to be shifted and included in areas in which the fishing grounds, natural conditions and density of maritime traffic were to prove very different. It follows that the scope of Annex I to the regulation cannot be altered by the unilateral action of a Member State in shifting its baselines. It is for that reason that the combined provisions of Article 6(2) and Annex I to the above regulation must be understood as referring to baselines as they existed on 25 January 1983, the date on which the regulation was adopted, and that Member States are consequently precluded from applying in certain areas, for the purposes of the fisheries arrangements laid down for their coastal waters in those provisions, new baselines which are shifted further out to sea than those in force on that date. 2. A Member State cannot justify its failure to fulfil obligations under the Treaty by pointing to the fact that other Member States have also failed, and continue to fail, to fulfil their own obligations. Under the legal order established by the Treaty, the implementation of Community law by Member States cannot be made subject to a condition of reciprocity. Articles 169 and 170 of the Treaty provide suitable means of redress for dealing with the failure by Member States to fulfil their obligations under the Treaty. 3. The exemplary conduct of a Member State which, after adopting measures contested by the Commission and other Member States and ultimately held by the Court, under Article 169 of the Treaty, to constitute a failure to fulfil obligations, voluntarily suspended their application, thereby rendering unnecessary an application to the Court for interim measures, constitutes an exceptional circumstance within the meaning of Article 69(3) of the Rules of Procedure such as to justify an order that each party bear its own costs.
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Regina -v- Secretary of State for Transport, ex parte Factortame C-221/89; [1991] EUECJ C-221/89; [1991] ECR I-3905
25 Jul 1991 ECJ	European, Agriculture, Administrative, Licensing	Casemap 1 Citers
	Europa Member States - Obligations - Exercise of residual powers in the field of the registration of vessels - Compliance with Community law. Free movement of persons - Freedom of establishment - Registration of a fishing vessel in a Member State - Conditions relating to the nationality, residence and domicile of the owners, charterers and operators of the vessel - Unlawful - Power of derogation of the national authorities - Absence of effect - System of fishing quotas - Absence of effect - Condition relating to the location of place from which the vessel is managed and its operations directed and controlled - Lawful (EEC Treaty, Art. 52)
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