Luxembourg, 22/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Justice has just answered questions posed by the Spanish Supreme Court which has to rule on the validity of Spanish legislation subjecting cabotage services between Spanish islands to prior administrative authorisation. Maritime cabotage was liberalised in 1992 by a Council regulation. For the first time, the European judges set out the criteria that national judges must apply to determine whether or not prior administrative...