Brussels, 20/06/2014 (Agence Europe) - In a verdict returned on 18 June (T-260/11), the General Court of the EU rejected Spain's request for the annulment of a 2011 regulation providing for deductions from certain quotas allocated to that country due to its overfishing in 2010.
This regulation imposed sanctions on Spain in the form of deductions from certain quotas between 2011 and 2015, due to overfishing for mackerel, assessed at 20,000 tonnes, in 2010.
Spain did not dispute the level of...