In a judgment (C-611/17) published on Tuesday 30 April, the EU Court of Justice ruled against Italy for annulling the provisions of the 2017 regulation on the total allowable catch (TAC) of swordfish in the Mediterranean.
The European TAC for swordfish was set at 70.756% of the total TAC of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), or 7,410.48 tonnes (t) for 2017.
The basis used for the allocation of quotas was the 2012-2015 catch history. Out of the...