Judgment_paragraph 1 · Friends of the Irish Environment CLG v Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine and Others (C-330/22)

1This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the validity of Annex IA to Council Regulation (EU) 2020/123 of 27 January 2020 fixing for 2020 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters (OJ 2020 L 25, p. 1), in the light of Article 2(1) and (2) and Article 3(c) and (d) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC (OJ 2013 L 354, p. 22), read in combination with Articles 9, 10, 15 and 16 of Regulation No 1380/2013 and Articles 1 to 5, 8 and 10 of Regulation (EU) 2019/472 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2019 establishing a multiannual plan for stocks fished in the Western Waters and adjacent waters, and for fisheries exploiting those stocks, amending Regulations (EU) 2016/1139 and (EU) 2018/973, and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 811/2004, (EC) No 2166/2005, (EC) No 388/2006, (EC) No 509/2007 and (EC) No 1300/2008 (OJ 2019 L 83, p. 1), in so far as that annex set, for the year 2020, the total allowable catches (TACs) for cod (Gadus morhua), first, in zone 6a and in European Union and international waters of zone 5b east of 12°00′ W (COD/5BE6A) and, second, in zones 7b, 7c, 7e to 7k and 8 to 10 and in European Union waters of Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) zone 34.1.1 (COD/7XAD34), for whiting (Merlangius merlangus) in zone 7a (WHG/07A) and for plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) in zones 7h, 7j and 7k (PLE/7HJK) (‘the TACs at issue’).

Friends of the Irish Environment CLG v Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine and Others (C-330/22)

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