Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 December 2000 in Case C-39/00 P: Services pour le Groupement d'Acquisitions SARL (SGA) v Commission of the European Communities (Competition — Distribution of motor vehicles — Complaint — Action for declaration of failure to act, for annulment and for compensation — Appeal in part clearly inadmissible and in part clearly unfounded)
Date: 2001-07-14
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: General Court (EU), action for annulment (EU), exclusive distribution agreement, indemnification, infringement of EU law, motor car

C 200/26

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

14.7.2001

ORDER OF THE COURT

ORDER OF THE COURT

of 6 December 2000

(Sixth Chamber)

of 13 December 2000

in Case C-252/00 (reference for a preliminary ruling from
the Conseil Mixte d’Appel d’Expression Française de
l’Ordre des Médecins Vétérinaires): in the case of Dr Jean-
Michel Vandeweerd (1)

in Case C-39/00 P: Services pour le Groupement d’Acquis-
itions SARL (SGA) v Commission of the European Com-
munities (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Inadmissibility)

(Competition — Distribution of motor vehicles — Complaint
— Action for declaration of failure to act, for annulment
and for compensation — Appeal in part clearly inadmissible
and in part clearly unfounded)

(2001/C 200/45)

(2001/C 200/46)

(Language of the case: French)

(Language of the case: French)

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
in the European Court Reports)

In Case C-252/00: reference to the Court under Article 234
EC from the Conseil Mixte d’Appel d’Expression Française de
l’Ordre des Médecins Véterinaires (French language Joint
Appeal Board of the Association of Veterinary Surgeons,
Belgium), a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending
before that court in the case of Dr Jean-Michel Vandeweerd —
on the interpretation of Article 85 of the EC Treaty (now
Article 81 EC) — the Court, composed of: G.C. Rodrı´guez
Iglesias, President, C. Gulmann (Rapporteur), A. La Pergola,
M. Wathelet and V. Skouris, Presidents of Chambers,
D.A.O. Edward, J.-P. Puissochet, P. Jann, L. Sevo´ n, R. Schintgen,
F. Macken, N. Colneric, S. von Bahr, J.N. Cunha Rodrigues and
C.W.A. Timmermans, Judges; F.G. Jacobs, Advocate General;
R. Grass, Registrar, has made an order on 6 December 2000,
in which it has ruled:

The question submitted for a preliminary ruling by the Conseil Mixte
d’Appel d’Expression Française de l’Ordre des Médecins Véterinaires,
by decision of 10 June 2000, is inadmissible.

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
in the European Court Reports)

In Case C-39/00 P: Services pour le Groupement d’Acquisitions
SARL (SGA), in judicial liquidation, a company incorporated
under French law, established in Istres, France, represented by
J.C. Fourgoux, of the Paris Bar, with an address for service in
Luxembourg at the Chambers of P. Schiltz, 4 Rue Béatrix de
Bourbon — application for an appeal against the judgment of
the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (First
Chamber) of 13 December 1999 in Joined Cases T-189/95, T-
39/96 and T-123/96 SGA v Commission [1999] ECR II-3587,
seeking to have that judgment set aside, the other party to the
proceedings being: Commission of the European Communities
represented by G. Marenco, Principal Legal Adviser, and
F. Siredey-Garnier — the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed
of: C. Gulmann, President of the Chamber, V. Skouris, J.-
P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen (Rapporteur) and N. Colneric,
Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; R. Grass,
Registrar, has given an Order on 13 December 2000, in which
it:

1. Dismisses the appeal;

2. Orders Services pour le Groupement d’Acquisitions SARL

(SGA) to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 247 of 26.8.2000.

(1) OJ C 149 of 27.5.2000.