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Order of the General Court of 4 February 2021 — Germann Avocats v Commission

(Case T-352/18) (1)

(Action for annulment and for damages - Public service contracts - Tendering procedure - Follow-up study on trade union practices on non-discrimination and diversity - Rejection of a tenderer’s bid - Award criteria - Action in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law and in part manifestly inadmissible)

(2021/C 98/31)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Germann Avocats LLC (Geneva, Switzerland) (represented by: C. Giannakopoulos and N. Skandamis, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J. Estrada de Solà and A. Katsimerou, acting as Agents, and by R. van Melsen, lawyer)

Re:

First, application based on Article 263 TFEU for the annulment of the Commission’s decision to reject the applicant’s bid submitted in response to the call for tenders JUST/2017/RDIS/FW/EQUA/0042 (‘Follow-up study on trade union practices on non-discrimination and diversity’ (2017/S 215-446067)) and, secondly, application based on Article 268 TFEU for compensation for the damage allegedly suffered by the applicant following the adoption of that decision.

Operative part of the order

1. The action is dismissed.

2. Germann Avocats LLC shall pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 301, 27.8.2018.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the General Court of 12 May 2020 –Dragnea v Commission

(Case T-738/18) (1)

(Action for annulment - European Regional Development Fund - Romanian Regional Operational Programme 2007-2013 - OLAF’s external investigations - OLAF’s final reports and recommendations - National decision opening a criminal investigation - OLAF’s refusal to open an investigation into the conduct of the previous investigations - Refusal to grant access to the OLAF investigation file - Act not open to challenge - Inadmissibility)

(2020/C 247/19)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Liviu Dragnea (Bucharest, Romania) (represented by: B. O’Connor, Solicitor, and S. Gubel, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J.-P. Keppenne and J. Baquero Cruz, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of the letter of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) of 1 October 2018.

Operative part of the order

1. The action is dismissed.

2. Mr Liviu Dragnea shall pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 65, 18.2.2019.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the General Court of 30 November 2022 — adidas International Trading and Others v Commission

(Case T-24/18) (1)

(2023/C 45/48)

Language of the case: English

The President of the Sixth Chamber has ordered that the case be removed from the register.

(1) OJ C 94, 12.3.2018.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the General Court of 12 May 2021 — SCF Terminal (Cyprus) and SHB v Council and Others

(Case T-199/18) (1)

(2021/C 263/48)

Language of the case: English

The President of the First Chamber has ordered that the case be removed from the register.

(1) OJ C 231, 2.7.2018.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the General Court of 5 September 2019 — Giorgio Armani v EUIPO — Invicta Watch Company of America (GLYCINE)

(Case T-209/19) (1)

(European Union trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Withdrawal of the application for registration - No need to adjudicate)

(2019/C 363/23)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Giorgio Armani SpA (Milan, Italy) (represented by: J. Rether and M. Kinkeldey, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Hanf, Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Invicta Watch Company of America, Inc. (Hollywood, Florida, United States)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 February 2019 (Case R 578/2018-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Giorgio Armani and Invicta Watch Company of America, Inc.

Operative part of the order

1. There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the action.

2. Giorgio Armani SpA shall bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

(1) OJ C 182, 27.5.2019.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the President of the General Court of 8 May 2019 — AlpaSuri v Commission

(Case T-254/19 R)

(Interlocutory proceedings - Import of alpacas - Application for interim measures - No urgency)

(2019/C 246/28)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: AlpaSuri GbR Barbara Bruns & Wolfgang Stamp (Winsen, Germany) (represented by: U. Schrömbges, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Eggers and B. Hofstötter, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Articles 278 and 279 TFEU seeking interim measures authorising the import of alpacas into the territory of the European Union from Canada.

Operative part of the order

1. The application for interim measures is dismissed.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the General Court of 10 October 2019 — Algebris (UK) v Anchorage Capital Group v SRB

(Case T-2/19) (1)

(Action for annulment - Economic and monetary policy - Single resolution mechanism for credit institutions and certain investment firms - Resolution scheme in respect of Banco Popular Español - No ex post definitive valuation of Banco Popular Español - Lack of direct concern - Inadmissibility)

(2019/C 423/71)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Algebris (UK) Ltd (London, United Kingdom) and Anchorage Capital Group LLC (New York, New York, United States) (represented by: T. Soames, lawyer, R. East, Solicitor, N. Chesaites and D. Mackersie, Barristers)

Defendant: Single Resolution Board (SRB) (represented by: A. Valavanidou, I. Georgiopoulos and E. Muratori, acting as Agents, and by H.-G. Kamann, F. Louis, V. Del Pozo Espinosa De Los Monteros, G. Barthet and C. Schwedler, lawyers)

Re:

Application under Article 263 TFEU for the annulment of the ‘decision of the SRB, notified to the applicants on 18 December 2018, not to proceed with an ex post definitive valuation of Banco Popular Español, SA’.

Operative part of the order

1. The action is dismissed as being inadmissible.

2. Algebris (UK) Ltd and Anchorage Capital Group LLC shall pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 82, 4.3.2019.
Order of the General Court of 11 September 2019 — Almashreq Investment Fund v Council

(Case T-62/19) (1)

(Action for compensation - Common foreign and security policy - Restrictive measures taken against Syria - Freezing of funds - Lack of competence)

(2019/C 399/83)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Almashreq Investment Fund (Damascus, Syria) (represented by E. Ruchat, lawyer)

Defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by A. Jaume and V. Piessevaux, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Article 268 TFEU seeking compensation in respect of the harm allegedly suffered by the applicant as a result of the adoption of Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/778 of 28 May 2018 amending Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2018 L 131, p. 16) and its subsequent implementing acts, and as a result of Council Decision (CFSP) 2019/806 of 17 May 2019 amending Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria (OJ 2019 L 132, p. 36), in so far as those decisions concern the applicant.

Operative part of the order

1. The action is dismissed.

2. Almashreq Investment Fund shall bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the Council of the European Union.

(1) OJ C 139, 15.4.2019.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the President of the General Court of 7 November 2019 — AMVAC Netherlands v Commission

(Case T-317/19 R)

(Application for interim measures - Plant protection products - Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 - Active substance ethoprophos - Conditions for approval for placing the substance on the market - Application for suspension of operation - Lack of urgency)

(2020/C 54/56)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: AMVAC Netherlands BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands)) (represented by: C. Mereu, M. Grunchard and S. Englebert, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castilla-Contreras and I. Naglis, Agents)

Re:

Application pursuant to Articles 278 and 279 TFEU seeking suspension of the operation of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/344 of 28 February 2019 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance ethoprophos, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (OJ 2019 L 62, p. 7).

Operative part of the order

1. The application for interim measures is dismissed.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the President of the General Court of 26 September 2019 — Medac Gesellschaft für klinische Spezialpräparate v Commission

(Case T-549/19 R)

(Application for interim measures - Orphan medicinal product - Application to suspend operation of a measure - No urgency)

(2020/C 19/64)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Medac Gesellschaft für klinische Spezialpräparate mbH (Wedel, Germany) (represented by: P. von Czettritz, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J. F. Brakeland, L. Haasbeek and C. Hermes, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Articles 278 and 279 TFEU to suspend the operation of Article 5 of Commission Implementing Decision C (2019) 4858 final of 20 June 2019 granting marketing authorisation under Regulation No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council for ‘Trecondi-treosulfan’, a medicinal product for human use.

Operative part of the order

The Court orders:

1. The application for interim measures is refused.
Order of the President of the General Court of 31 January 2020 — Shindler and Others v Commission

(Case T-627/19 R)

(Interim measures - Area of freedom, security and justice - Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union - UK citizens residing in another EU Member State - Loss of EU citizenship - Action for failure to act - Inadmissibility of the application for interim measures)

(2020/C 95/42)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: Harry Shindler (Porto d'Ascoli, Italy) and the five other applicants whose names are listed in the annex to the order (represented by: J. Fouchet, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Erlbacher, C. Giolito and E. Montaguti, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Article 279 TFEU and Article 156 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, seeking (i) suspension of the Commission’s express refusal of 13 September 2019 to recognise its failure to act, and (ii) an order requiring the Commission to take certain measures to maintain the applicants’ EU citizenship beyond the date of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and adopt an interim decision on an alternative status to that citizenship comprising various measures relating to entry, stay, social rights and professional activity applicable in the absence of agreement on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

Operative part of the order

1. The application for interim measures is dismissed.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the President of the General Court of 12 December 2019 — FF v Commission

(Case T-654/19 R)

(Interim relief - Law governing the institutions - Liability of the European Union - Photograph of a man used as a health warning - Action for damages - Application for interim measures - Necessity - Inadmissibility)

(2020/C 61/59)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: FF (represented by: A. Fittante, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: I. Rubene and D. Martin, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Articles 278 and 279 TFEU for an order that an expert’s report be obtained as an interim measure.

Operative part of the order

1. The application for interim measures is refused.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the General Court of 23 March 2020 — Highgate Capital Management v Commission

(Case T-280/19) (1)

(Action for annulment - State aid - Complaint - Measure not open to challenge - Inadmissibility)

(2020/C 191/19)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Highgate Capital Management LLP (London, United Kingdom) (represented by: M. Struys, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Blanck, A. Bouchagiar and K.-Ph. Wojcik, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of the Commission’s decision rejecting a complaint relating to unlawful State aid granted to Eurobank Ergasias SA through the acquisition of Piraeus Bank Bulgaria (SA.53105), allegedly contained in the letter of 8 March 2019 from the Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and in the public statement of 20 March 2019 of the Commissioner responsible for competition.

Operative part of the order

1. The action is dismissed as being inadmissible.

2. There is no need to rule on the application to intervene of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund.

3. Highgate Capital Management LLP shall pay the costs, including those relating to the proceedings for interim measures, with the exception of those relating to the application to intervene.

4. The Hellenic Financial Stability Fund shall bear its own costs relating to the application to intervene.

(1) OJ C 213, 24.6.2019.
Official Journal of the European Union

Order of the President of the General Court of 7 February 2020 — Anglo Austrian AAB Bank and Belegging-Maatschappij ‘Far-East’ v ECB

(Case T-797/19 R)

(Interim measures - Regulation (EU) No 1024/2013 - Prudential supervision of credit institutions - Decision to withdraw authorisation as a credit institution - Lack of urgency)

(2020/C 137/81)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicants: Anglo Austrian AAB Bank AG (Vienna, Austria), Belegging-Maatschappij ‘Far-East BV’ (Velp, Netherlands) (represented by: M. Fischer, J. Willheim and M. Ketzer, lawyers)

Defendant: European Central Bank (represented by: C. Hernández Saseta, E. Yoo and V. Hümpfner, agents)

Re:

Suspension of the implementation of the decision of 14 November 2019, ref: ECB-SSM-2019-AT-8, WHD-2019-0009 by which the European Central Bank withdrew the authorisation of Anglo Austrian AAB Bank AG as a credit institution from the date of notification of the decision.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the application.

2. Cancels the order of 20 November 2019, Anglo Austrian AAB Bank and Belegging-Maatschappij ‘Far-East’ v BCE (T-797/19 R, not published, EU:T:2019:801).
Order of the General Court of 20 May 2020 — Nord Stream 2 v Parliament and Council

(Case T-526/19) (1)

(Action for annulment - Energy - Internal market in natural gas - Directive (EU) 2019/692 - Application of Directive 2009/73/EC to gas lines to or from third countries - No direct concern - Inadmissibility - Production of documents obtained unlawfully)

(2020/C 247/20)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Nord Stream 2 AG (Zug, Switzerland) (represented by: L. Van den Hende and J. Penz-Evren, lawyers, and M. Schonberg, Solicitor advocate)

Defendants: European Parliament (represented by: L. Visaggio, J. Etienne and I. McDowell, acting as Agents) and Council of the European Union (represented by: A. Lo Monaco, S. Boelaert and K. Pavlaki, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Directive (EU) 2019/692 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 amending Directive 2009/73/EC concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas (OJ 2019 L 117, p. 1).

Operative part of the order

1. The documents produced by Nord Stream 2 AG as Annexes A. 14 and O. 20 are removed from the file and there is no need to take account of the passages of the application and annexes in which extracts of those documents are reproduced.

2. The application for a decision on a procedural issue submitted by the Council of the European Union is dismissed as to the remainder.

3. The documents produced by Nord Stream 2 as Annexes M. 26 and M. 30 are removed from the file.

4. The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

5. There is no need to adjudicate on the applications for leave to intervene submitted by the Republic of Estonia, by the Republic of Latvia, by the Republic of Lithuania, by the Republic of Poland and by the European Commission.

6. Nord Stream 2 is ordered to pay the costs of the European Parliament and of the Council, except for those relating to the applications for leave to intervene.

7. Nord Stream 2, the Parliament and the Council, as well as the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Poland and the Commission, are to bear their own costs in relation to the applications for leave to intervene.

(1) OJ C 305, 9.9.2019.
Order of the President of the General Court of 30 April 2020 — Nouryon Industrial Chemicals and Others v Commission

(Case T-868/19 R)

(Interim measures - REACH - Dimethyl ether substance - Compliance check - Commission decision - Obligation to provide certain information requiring testing on animals - Application for suspension of operation of a measure - No urgency)

(2020/C 201/35)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicants: Nouryon Industrial Chemicals BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Knoell NL BV (Maarssen, Netherlands), Grillo-Werke AG (Duisburg, Germany), PCC Trade & Services GmbH (Duisburg) (represented by: R. Cana and G. David, lawyers, and Z. Romata, Solicitor)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: R. Lindenthal and K. Mifsud-Bonnici, Agents)

Re:

Application pursuant to Articles 278 and 279 TFEU seeking, first, the suspension of operation of Commission Implementing Decision C(2019) 7336 final of 16 October 2019 on the compliance check of a registration of dimethyl ether referred by the European Chemicals Agency to the Commission pursuant to Article 51(7) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ 2006 L 396, p. 1, corrigendum OJ 2007 L 136, p. 3), and, secondly, the grant of any other interim measures which the Court considers appropriate.

Operative part of the order

1. The application for interim measures is dismissed.
Order of the General Court of 3 July 2020 — Falqui and Poggiolini v Parliament

(Joined cases T-347/19 and T-348/19) (1)

(Actions for annulment - Institutional law - Single statute for Members of the European Parliament - Members of the European Parliament elected in Italian constituencies - Adoption by the Ufficio di Presidenza della Camera dei deputati (Office of the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Italy) of Decision No 14/2018, on pensions - Change in the amount of pensions - Manifestly inadmissible actions)

(2020/C 339/27)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicants: Enrico Falqui (Florence, Italy), Danilo Poggiolini (Rome, Italy) (represented by: F. Sorrentino and A. Sandulli, lawyers)

Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: S. Seyr and S. Alves, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the letters of 11 April 2019 drawn up, in the case of both applicants, by the Head of the ‘Members’ Salaries and Social Entitlements’ Unit of the Parliament’s Directorate General for Finance concerning the adjustment of the pensions they receive following the entry into force, on 1 January 2019 of Decision No 14/2018 of the Ufficio di Presidenza della Camera dei deputati (Office of the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Italy).

Operative part of the order

1. The actions are rejected as manifestly inadmissible.

2. Mr Enrico Falqui and Mr Danilo Poggiolini shall bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the European Parliament.

(1) OJ C 263, 5.8.2019.
Order of the General Court of 11 June 2020 — Vanhoudt and Others v EIB

(Case T-294/19) (1)

(Action for annulment and for damages - Civil service - EIB staff - Reform of the EIB remuneration and salary progression system - Remuneration simulation tool - Act not open to challenge - Purely confirmatory act - No new and substantial facts - Non-material harm - No causal link - Action in part inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

(2020/C 262/32)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicants: Patrick Vanhoudt (Gonderange, Luxembourg) and the other appellants whose names are listed in the annex (represented by: A. Haines, Barrister)

Defendant: European Investment Bank (represented by: T. Gilliams, J. Klein and J. Krueck, acting as Agents, and P.E. Partsch and T. Evans, lawyers)

Re:

Application under Article 270 TFEU and Article 50a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union seeking, first, annulment of the decision of the EIB of 31 January 2019 by which the EIB confirmed the decision of the Conciliation Board, which found that the conciliation procedure relating to the applicants’ requests to make available an official printout of the results of the remuneration simulation tool used to calculate the impact of the reforms and of the amicable settlement to compensate for the losses allegedly suffered as a result of the reforms had failed, and, second, compensation for the non-material damage allegedly suffered by the applicants as a result of that decision of 31 January 2019.

Operative part of the order

1. The action is dismissed as in part inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law.

2. Mr Patrick Vanhoudt and the other applicants whose names are listed in the annex shall pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 230, 8.7.2019.
Order of the General Court of 2 September 2020 — ENIL Brussels Office and Others v Commission

(Case T-613/19) (1)

(Action for annulment - ERDF - Operational programme ‘Regions in Growth’ - Priority Axis 5 (Regional social infrastructure) - Grant intended to support the deinstitutionalisation of services for elderly people and people with disabilities - Refusal to suspend the call for proposals at the request of organisations for the defence and representation of people with disabilities - Act not open to challenge - Inadmissibility)

(2020/C 371/15)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicants: European Network on Independent Living Brussels Office (ENIL Brussels Office) (Brussels, Belgium), Validity Foundation-Mental Disability Advocacy Centre (Budapest, Hungary), Center for Independent Living Association (Sofia, Bulgaria) (represented by B. Van Vooren and L. Gorywoda, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by S. Pardo Quintillán and J. Hradil, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the Commission’s letter of 24 May 2019 by which that institution took a position on the applicants’ request to act addressed to the Commission, under Article 265 TFEU, by letter of 26 April 2019 and which was intended, in essence, to require the Commission to suspend the call for proposals for the award of grants under the procedure ‘Support for the deinstitutionalisation of social services for elderly people and people with disabilities’ (BG16RFOP0001-5.002) and all related payments.

Operative part of the order

1. The action is rejected as inadmissible.

2. European Network on Independent Living Brussels Office (ENIL Brussels Office), Validity Foundation-Mental Disability Advocacy Centre and Center for Independent Living Association shall pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 413, 9.12.2019.