Planas says that the EU has negotiated fishing quotas with complete freedom and without fear of the CJEU ruling

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, assured this Tuesday that the countries of the European Union have negotiated fishing quotas in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean with “total freedom” and “without fear” of the future ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which could limit quotas to scientific criteria. “We have negotiated with absolute freedom what we wanted to achieve, obviously within the respect of the law,” said the minister at the end of a long meeting. He admitted that “one of the very important questions” with a view to the future will be knowing “what is the room for maneuver in setting TACs and quotas” and recalled that now these decisions are made based on scientific reports and socioeconomic circumstances. , based on the Common Fisheries Policy. He insisted that the Fisheries Ministers have “no fear that the law will be followed” since the club of 27 is made up of countries that are States of law where “the law must prevail ...