BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Arbitrators asked to settle a dispute between Britain and the European Union over post-Brexit fishing rights have given a mixed ruling, the Permanent Court of Arbitration said on Friday.
The case, which would complicate Britain’s planned “reset” of relations with the bloc, concerned whether a British ban on fishing sandeels in its North Sea waters breaches the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
The three-person panel dismissed a number of EU complaints, but did find that Britain’s sandeel fishing ban in English waters was not “proportionate” and that Britain needed to take the necessary measures to comply with its ruling.
(Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop, editing by Bart Meijer)
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