By setting fishing levels above zero in 2020 for certain fish stocks even though these levels had been described as ‘unsustainable’ by scientific advice, the Council of the EU “exceeded the discretion granted to it by the EU legislature”, according to the Opinion of the Advocate General Tamara Ćapeta, delivered on Thursday 15 June (C-330/22).
According to scientific advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), cod, whiting and plaice quotas should...