Order of the Court of Justice (Second Chamber) of 28 June 2001 in Case C-351/99 P: Eridania SpA and Others v Council of the European Union and Others (Appeal — Common organisation of the market in the sugar sector — System of storage fees — Authorisation for the grant of national aid — Abolition — 1995/96 marketing year — Appeals by sugar producers — Acts of direct and individual concern to them — Provision fixing the amount of reimbursement for compensation for storage costs — Inadmissibility)
Date: 2001-10-13
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Italy, action for annulment (EU), appeal, farm prices, storage cost, sugar industry

C 289/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

13.10.2001

Communities (OJ 1972 L 73, p. 196), of the new Declaration
by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland on the definition of the term ‘nationals’
(OJ 1983 C 23, p. 1), and of Declaration No 2 on nationality
of a Member State, annexed to the Final Act of the Treaty on
European Union (OJ 1992 C 191, p. 98) — the Court
(First Chamber), composed of: M. Wathelet, President of the
Chamber, P. Jann and L. Sevo´ n (Rapporteur), Judges; P. Léger,
Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has made an order on
12 July 2001, the operative part of which is as follows:

In order to determine whether a person is a national of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the purposes of
Community law, it is necessary to refer to the 1982 Declaration by
the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland on the definition of the term ‘nationals’ which
replaced the 1972 Declaration by the Government of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the definition of
the term ‘nationals’, annexed to the Final Act of the Treaty concerning
the Accession of the Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland and the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the European
Communities.

(1) OJ C 246 of 28.8.1999.

ORDER OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE

(Second Chamber)

of 28 June 2001

in Case C-351/99 P: Eridania SpA and Others v Council of
the European Union and Others (1)

(Appeal — Common organisation of the market in the sugar
sector — System of storage fees — Authorisation for the
grant of national aid — Abolition — 1995/96 marketing
year — Appeals by sugar producers — Acts of direct and
individual concern to them — Provision fixing the amount
of reimbursement for compensation for storage costs —
Inadmissibility)

(2001/C 289/10)

(Language of the case: Italian)

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

In Case C-351/99 P: Eridania SpA, formerly Eridania Zuccheri-
fici Nazionali SpA, established in Genoa,
Industria
Saccarifera Italiana Agroindistriale SpA (ISI), established in
Padua, Italy, Sadam Zuccerifici, a division of SECI — Società
Esercizi Commerciali Industriali SpA, established in Bologna,
Italy, Sadam Castigliognese SpA, established in Bologna, Sadam

Italy,

Abruzzo SpA, established in Bologna, Zuccherificio del Molise
SpA, established in Termoli, Italy, Società Fondiaria Industriale
Romagnola SpA (SFIR), established in Cesena, Italy, represent-
ed by B. O’Connor, Solicitor, and I. Vigliotti, avvocato, —
appeal against the order of the Court of First Instance of the
European Communities (First Chamber) of 8 July 1999 in Case
T-158/95 Eridania and Others v Council [1999] ECR II-2219,
seeking to have that order set aside, the other parties to the
proceedings being, Council of the European Union (Agents:
I. Diez Parra and J.P. Hix), Commission of the European
Communities (Agent: F.P. Ruggeri Laderchi) and Ponteco
Zuccheri SpA, established in Pontelagoscuro, Italy — the Court
(Second Chamber), composed of V. Skouris, President of the
Chamber, R. Schintgen and N. Colneric (Rapporteur), Judges;
J. Mischo, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a
judgment on 28 June 2001, in which it:

1. Dismisses the appeal;

2. Orders Eridania SpA, Industria Saccarifera Italiana Agroindis-
triale SpA (ISI), Sadam Zuccerifici, a division of SECI
Industriali SpA, Sadam
— Societh Esercizi Commerciali
Castigliognese SpA, Sadam Abruzzo SpA, Zuccherificio del
Molise SpA and Società Fondiaria Industriale Romagnola SpA
(SFIR) jointly to pay the costs;

3. Orders the Commission to bear its own costs.

(1) OJ C 352, 4.12.1999.

ORDER OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE

(Second Chamber)

of 28 June 2001

in Case C-352/99 P: Eridania SpA and Others v Council of
the European Union and Others (1)

(Appeal — Common organisation of the market in the sugar
sector — Pricing system — Regionalisation — Classification
of Italy — 1995/96 marketing year — Appeals by sugar
producers — Acts of direct and individual concern to them
— Provision fixing the derived intervention price of white
sugar for all the zones of Italy — Inadmissibility)

(2001/C 289/11)

(Language of the case: Italian)

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

In Case C-351/99 P: Eridania SpA, formerly Eridania Zuccheri-
Industria
fici Nazionali SpA, established in Genoa,

Italy,