However, it also ruled that the U.K. had made a procedural error in bringing in the ban by not giving due regard to the rights of EU fishers during an adjustment period \u2014 as required under the Brexit trade deal.<\/p>\n
The fish are fed to livestock by farmers in countries like Denmark, but are also the favored food of baby seabirds.<\/p>\n
Conservationists have long pushed for the ban on fishing the stock in a bid to give the endangered birds a break \u2014 and a chance at arresting their falling numbers.<\/p>\n
A U.K. government spokesperson said the judgment \u201cdoes not mean the U.K. is legally obliged to reverse the closure\u201d and that it would now \u201cundertake a process in good faith to bring the U.K. into compliance on the specific issues raised by the Tribunal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remain committed to protecting our seabirds and the wider marine environment, in accordance with our commitments to the TCA [the U.K.-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement] and other international agreements,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
A European Commission spokesperson told reporters on Friday afternoon that the bloc\u2019s executive was \u201cstill analyzing this ruling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, it also ruled that the U.K. had made a procedural error in bringing in the ban by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,365,728,2000,299,5187,1699,6644,4884,807,27647,46,48,1201,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-68492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-farmers","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-livestock","20":"tag-policy","21":"tag-rights","22":"tag-trade","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114438482435767316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}