Order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 31 October 2000 in Case T-85/00 R: Laboratórios Roussel, Limitada, and Laboratoires Roussel Diamant S.a.r.l. v Commission of the European Communities (Interlocutory proceedings — Withdrawal of marketing authorisation for medicinal products for human use containing fenproporex — Directive 75/319/EEC — Urgency — Need to balance interests)
Date: 2001-04-21
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU Member State, European Commission, action for annulment (EU), market approval, medicinal product, pharmaceutical industry

21.4.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 118/39

ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST
INSTANCE

ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 31 October 2000

of 17 November 2000

in Case T-85/00 R: Laborato´ rios Roussel, Limitada, and
Laboratoires Roussel Diamant S.a.r.l. v Commission of
the European Communities

in Case T-115/00: Christiane Chvatal v Court of Justice of
the European Communities (1)

(Action for annulment and damages — Refusal to comply
with a judgment — Annulment of the judgment — Case not
proceeding to judgment)

(Interlocutory proceedings — Withdrawal of marketing
authorisation for medicinal products for human use contain-
ing fenproporex — Directive 75/319/EEC — Urgency —
Need to balance interests)

(2001/C 118/108)

(2001/C 118/107)

(Language of the case: French)

(Language of the case: German)

In Case T-85/00 R: Laborato´ rios Roussel, Lda, of Mem
Martins (Portugal), and Laboratoires Roussel Diamant S.a.r.l.,
of Puteaux (France), represented by B. Sträter, Rechtsanwalt,
Bonn, Germany, with an address for service in Luxembourg at
the Chambers of Bonn and Schmidt, 7 Val Sainte-Croix,
against Commission of the European Communities (Agents:
H. Støvlbæk and B. Wägenbaur) — application for the
suspension of application of the decision of the Commission
of 9 March 2000 concerning the withdrawal of authorisations
for placing on the market medicinal products for human
consumption containing, in particular, fenproporex — the
President of the Court of First Instance made an order on
31 October 2000, the operative part of which is as follows:

1.

the decision of

the
The application to the applicants of
Commission of 9 March 2000 concerning the withdrawal of
authorisations for placing on the market medicinal products
for human consumption containing clobenzorex, fenbutrazat,
fenproporex, mazindol, mefenorex, norpseudoephedrine, phen-
metrazine, phendimetrazine and propylhexedrine (C(2000)
608) is suspended.

In Case T-115/00: Christiane Chvatal, an official of the Court
of Justice of the European Communities, residing at Itzig
(Luxembourg), represented by Alain Lorang, of the Luxem-
bourg Bar, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the
latter’s Chambers, 2 Rue des Dahlias, v Court of Justice of the
European Communities (Agent: M. Schauss) — application,
first, for annulment of the decision of the Court of Justice
rejecting the applicant’s request that the institution make
representations to the Council asking it
to adopt, upon
the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, measures to
terminate the service of officials of the Court of Justice in
accordance with the proposal submitted to it, alternatively to
adopt any other appropriate rules to ensure compliance with
the judgment delivered by the Court of First Instance on
30 September 1998 in Case T-154/96 and to include the
applicant’s name in the list of persons having expressed an
interest in being the subject of a decision terminating their
service, and, second,
for damages — the Court of First
Instance (Third Chamber), composed of: J. Azizi, President,
and M. Jaeger and M. Vilaras, Judges; H. Jung, Registrar, made
an order on 17 November 2000, the operative part of which
is as follows:

1.

2.

There is no need to give a decision on the present application.

The parties are to bear their own costs.

2.

Costs are reserved.

(1) OJ C 211 of 22.7.2000.