Order of the Court of First Instance of 11 May 2001 in Case T-178/96: Eridania SpA and Others v Council of the European Union (Sugar — System of prices — Regionalisation — Deficit areas — Classification of Italy — Marketing year 1996 — 1997 — Regulations No 1580/96 and No 1785/81 — Action for annulment — Manifest inadmissibility — Claim for damages manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
Date: 2001-09-15
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: Council of the European Union, Italy, action for annulment (EU), intervention price, sugar industry, underproduction

15.9.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 259/11

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 30 May 2001

in Case T-348/00: Artin Barth v Commission of the
European Communities (1)

(Officials — Household allowance — Recovery of sums
overpaid)

(2001/C 259/17)

(Language of the case: Dutch)

In Case T-348/00: Artin Barth, former official of the Com-
mission of the European Communities, residing in Lenzkirch
(Germany), represented by E.J.H. Moons and J. Vercammen,
lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg, against
Commission of the European Communities (Agents: J. Currall
and W. Wils) — application for annulment of the decision of
the Commission of 17 August 2000 withdrawing, with effect
from 1 October 1998, the household allowance of which the
applicant had been in receipt until then and recovery of sums
overpaid by virtue of that allowance during the period running
from 1 October 1998 to 28 February 2000 — the Court of
First Instance (Single Judge: M. Vilaras); Blanca Pastor, Principal
Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 30 May
2001, in which it:

1. Dismisses the application.

2. Orders the parties to bear their own costs.

(1) OJ C 45 of 10.2.01.

ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 11 May 2001

Industriale Romagnola SpA), whose registered office is at
Cesena (Italy), represented by B. O’Connor, solicitor, and
I. Vigliotti and P. Crocetta, lawyers, with an address for service
in Luxembourg, supported by Comité Européen des Fabricants
de Sucre, established in Brussels, represented by B. Garcı´a
Porras, lawyer, with an address for service in Luxembourg,
against Council of the European Union (Agents: I. Diez Parra
and J.-P. Hix), supported by Commission of the European
Communities (Agent: P. Ziotti) — application for,
first,
annulment of Council Regulation (EC) No 1580/96 of 30 July
1996 fixing, for the 1996/97 marketing year, the derived
intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention price for
raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, and the
amount of compensation for storage costs (OJ 1996 L 206,
p. 9), and a finding that certain provisions of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the
common organization of the markets in the sugar sector (OJ
1981 L 177, p. 4) are inapplicable, as amended by Council
Regulation (EC) No 1101/95 of 24 April 1995 (OJ 1995
L 110, p. 1) and, secondly, a claim for compensation to make
good the damage allegedly suffered by the applicants —
the Court of First Instance (First Chamber), composed of
B. Vesterdorf, President, M. Vilaras and N.J. Forwood, Judges;
H. Jung, Registrar, made an order on 11 May 2001, the
operative part of which is as follows:

1.

2.

3.

4.

The application is dismissed as manifestly inadmissible in so
far as it seeks the annulment of Article 1 (f) of Regulation
No 1580/96.

The application is dismissed as manifestly lacking any foun-
dation in law inasmuch as it seeks an order requiring the
Council to make good the damage allegedly caused to the
applicants by the adoption and application of Regulation
No 1580/96, cited above.

The applicants shall bear their own costs and pay those incurred
by the Council.

The Commission and the Comité Européen des Fabricants de
Sucre shall bear their own costs.

in Case T-178/96: Eridania SpA and Others v Council of
the European Union (1)

(1) OJ 1997 C 54.

(Sugar — System of prices — Regionalisation — Deficit
areas — Classification of Italy — Marketing year 1996 —
1997 — Regulations No 1580/96 and No 1785/81 —
Action for annulment — Manifest inadmissibility — Claim
for damages manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

(2001/C 259/18)

(Language of the case: Italian)

In Case T-178/96: Società Eridiana SpA, whose registered
office is at Genoa (Italy), Società ISI (Industria Saccarifera
Italiana Agroindustriale SpA), whose registered office is at
Padua (Italy), Società Sadam Zuccherifici, a division of S.E.C.I.
(Società Esercizi Commerciali Industriali SpA), whose regis-
tered office is at Bologna (Italy), Società Sadam Castiglionese
SpA, whose registered office is at Bologna (Italy), Società
Sadam Abruzzo SpA, whose registered office is at Bologna
(Italy), Società Zuccherificio del Molise SpA, whose registered
office is at Termoli (Italy), Società S.F.I.R. (Società Fondiaria

ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 2 May 2001

in Case T-208/00: Jeremı´as Augusto Barleycorn Mongolue
and Marc Boixader Rivas against the Council of the
European Union and the European Parliament (1)

(Officials — Application for annulment — Conditions of
admission to a competition — Spanish technical engineers —
Type of university qualification required — Inadmissibility)

(2001/C 259/19)

(Language of the case: Spanish)

In Case T-208/00, Jeremı´as Augusto Barleycorn Mongolue and
Marc Boixader Rivas residing in Madrid, represented by