Order — ECLI:EU:T:1998:260
Date: 1998-11-16
Language of the case: Dutch
Court formation: Third Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Agriculture and Fisheries;Association Agreement;External relations;Overseas countries and territories;Rice
Concepts: Allocation of jurisdiction among the various Community courts
Procedure: Action for annulment

Summary of the O r d e r 
Procedure — Division of jurisdiction between the Court of Justice and the Court of First 
Instance — Action, pending before the Court of First Instance, brought by a natural or legal 
person under Article 173, fourth paragraph, and Article 178 of the Treaty, concerning the intro­
duction, in the first case by the Commission and in the second by both the Commission and the 
Council, of safeguard measures in respect of imports — Another action, also pending before the 
Court of First Instance, brought by the same person under Article 173, fourth paragraph, of the 
Treaty, concerning the introduction of those measures by the Council — Joinder of the two cases 
— Action pending before the Court of Justice, brought by a Member State, for annulment of the 
Council measure — In the interests of the proper administration of justice that the Court of 
Justice should take into consideration the arguments of the natural or legal person — Disjoinder 
of the two cases pending before the Court of First Instance — Jurisdiction in the second case 
declined by the Court of First Instance — Proceedings before the Court of First Instance stayed 
in the first case 
(EC Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 47, third para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First 
Instance, Art. 50) 
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