Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 22 November 2007.#Cofradía de pescadores "San Pedro" de Bermeo and Others v Council of the European Union.#Appeal - Non-contractual liability of the Community - Principles of relative stability, legal certainty and legitimate expectations - Admissibility - Appeal in part unfounded and in part inadmissible - Cross appeal - Application to set aside part of the judgment of the Court of First Instance inasmuch as it holds that it is not necessary to rule on a plea of inadmissibility brought against an action which it dismissed as unfounded - No legal interest in bringing proceedings - Res judicata.#Case C-6/06 P.

Subject of the case

Re:

Appeal brought against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 19 October 2005 in Case T‑415/03 Cofradía de pescadores ‘San Pedro’ de Bermeo and Others v Council in which the Court dismissed the action for damages to compensate for the loss allegedly suffered by the applicants following the Council’s authorisation of the transfer to the French Republic of part of the quota for anchovy allocated to the Portuguese Republic.

The Court:

1.

Operative part

Operative part

Dismisses the principal appeal, brought by Cofradía de pescadores ‘San Pedro’ de Bermeo and the other applicants, whose names are set out in the Annex to the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 19 October 2005 in Case T-415/03 Cofradía de pescadores ‘San Pedro’ de Bermeo and Others v Council .

2. Dismisses the cross appeal brought by the Council of the European Union.

3. Orders Cofradía de pescadores ‘San Pedro’ de Bermeo and the other applicants, whose names are set out in the Annex to the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 19 October 2005 in Case T-415/03 Cofradía de pescadores ‘San Pedro’ de Bermeo and Others v Council , and the Council of the European Union, to bear their own costs.

4. Orders the Commission of the European Communities to bear its own costs.