Brussels, 23/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - In a reply to a written question from Fernando Maura Barandiarán MEP (ALDE, Spain), the European Commissioner for Fisheries, Karmenu Vella, said that the fisheries agreement between the EU and Morocco is “perfectly legal and fully respects international law”.
The Commissioner was referring to the United Nations legal opinion of 2002, according to which, where resource exploitation activities are conducted in Non-Self-Governing Territories for the...