Bloomsbury International Ltd and others v Sea Fish Industry Authority and another – WLR Daily

Posted March 22nd, 2010 in appeals, fisheries, law reports, ultra vires by sally

Bloomsbury International Ltd and others v Sea Fish Industry Authority and another [2010] EWCA Civ 263; [2010] WLR (D)

“The Sea Fish Industry Authority (Levy) Regulations 1995, which empowered the Sea Fish Industry Authority to treat sea fish and sea fish products imported from a member state of the European Union as ‘landed’ in the United Kingdom for the purpose of imposing levies upon them, were ultra vires s 4 of the Fisheries Act 1981 and contravened arts 28 and 30 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU’).”

WLR Daily, 19th March 2010

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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