Brussels, 22/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - In an opinion delivered on Thursday 21 May (case C-124/13), the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU came out in favour of the European Parliament and the European Commission which consider Council Regulation 1243/2012 establishing a long-term plan for cod stocks and the fisheries exploiting these stocks to be unlawful as it is based on the wrong legal basis.
Parliament argues that, given its aim and content, the regulation should have...