19 July 2018, the Court published its judgment in the case brought by the Frente Polisario against the EU Council over the application of the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement to Western Sahara.
The Court echoes its judgment of earlier this year, when it had already concluded the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement to be invalid in Western Sahara in another court case referred to it by the UK High Court.
That case had been initiated by Western Sahara Campaign UK against the UK government in February 2015. In October that same year, the UK High Court decided to refer the case to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling, which came on 27 February 2018.
The referral case took precedence, and as such the case initiated by Polisario in March 2014 was put on hold.
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