Brussels, 19/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 17 March, Greenpeace International announced that it intended to go to the European Court of Justice if the European Council did not backtrack on the generous bluefin tuna quotas granted for the season that begins in April. “Greenpeace has submitted a formal request to the Council to annul the Community quotas allocated and to decide to close the bluefin tuna fishery for all of 2009,” says a Greenpeace press release. The organisation has given member states 17 weeks to annul the “excessive” 2009 European bluefin tuna quota of 12,046 tonnes for the Community fleet as a whole. After that time, Greenpeace warns, it will take the matter to the European Court of Justice. (L.C./transl.rt)