Official Journal of the European Union

C series

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C/2025/4041

28.7.2025

(Case T-681/22)

(Common Fisheries Policy - Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2336 - Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1614 - Methods and criteria for determining areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known to occur or are likely to occur - Establishment of a list of areas where the presence of vulnerable marine ecosystems is proven or probable - Establishment of buffer zones - Plea of illegality - Proportionality)

(C/2025/4041)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: A. Gavela Llopis and J. Ruiz Sánchez, acting as Agents)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Dawes and I. Galindo Martín, acting as Agents)

Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by I. Terwinghe, C. Ionescu Dima and C. Burgos, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by L. Hamtcheva, F. Naert and G. Rugge, acting as Agents)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the Kingdom of Spain seeks the annulment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1614 of 15 September 2022 determining the existing deep-sea fishing areas and establishing a list of areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems are known to occur or are likely to occur (OJ 2022 L 242, p. 1, ‘the contested regulation’), as regards the establishment of the list set out in Article 2 of and Annex II to that regulation.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Dismisses the action;

2.Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;

3.Orders the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union to bear their own costs.

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OJ C 24, 23.1.2023.

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/4041/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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