Judgment of the Court 26 February 2002 in Case C-32/00 P: Commission of the European Communities v Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GmbH e.a. (Appeal — Veterinary medicinal products — Partial annulment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1312/96 in so far as, in fixing the maximum residue limits for clenbuterol chlorhydrate, it further specifies the permissible therapeutic indications for that substance — Possibility for the Commission, in fixing the maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products, to take into account Directive 96/22/EC concerning the prohibition on the use of certain substances)
Date: 2002-05-04
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European Commission, action for annulment (EU), animal product, pharmaceutical industry, regulation (EU), veterinary drug

4.5.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 109/7

3. Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, the Commission of the European Communities, the
Fédération Européenne de la Santé Animale (Fedesa) and the
Stichting Kwaliteitsgarantie Vleeskalverensector (SKV) to bear
their own costs.

(1) OJ C 102 of 8.4.2000.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

26 February 2002

in Case C-32/00 P: Commission of the European Com-
munities v Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GmbH e.a. (1)

(Appeal — Veterinary medicinal products — Partial annul-
ment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1312/96 in so far
as, in fixing the maximum residue limits for clenbuterol
chlorhydrate, it further specifies the permissible therapeutic
indications for that substance — Possibility for the Com-
mission, in fixing the maximum residue limits of veterinary
medicinal products, to take into account Directive 96/22/EC
concerning the prohibition on the use of certain substances)

(2002/C 109/10)

(Language of the case: English)

In Case C-32/00 P, Commission of the European Communities
(agent: X. Lewis): Appeal against the judgment of the Court of
First Instance of the European Communities (Second Chamber)
of 1 December 1999 in Joined Cases T-125/96 and T-152/96
Boehringer v Council and Commission [1999] ECR II-3427,
seeking to have that judgment set aside in part, the other
parties to the proceedings being: Boehringer Ingelheim Vetme-
dica GmbH, C.H. Boehringer Sohn, established in Ingelheim
am Rheim (Germany) (agents: D. Waelbroeck and D. Fosselard),
Council of the European Union, Fédération européenne de la
Santé animale (Fedesa), established in Brussels (Belgium)
(agents: A. Vandencasteele and D. Brinckman), Stichting
Kwaliteistsgarantie Vleeskalverensector (SKV), established in
La Haye (Netherlands) (agents: G. van der Wal and L. Parret)
and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
the Court, composed of: G.C. Rodrı´guez Iglesias, President,
P. Jann, F. Macken and N. Colneric (Presidents of Chambers),
A. La Pergola (Rapporteur),
J.-P. Puissochet, M. Wathelet,
R. Schintgen and V. Skouris, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer,
Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment
on 26 February 2002, in which it:

1.

Sets aside points 2 and 5 of the operative part of the judgment
of the Court of First Instance of 1 December 1999 in Joined
Cases T-125/96 and T-152/96 Boehringer v Council and
Commission;

2. Dismisses the action for annulment brought by Boehringer
Ingelheim Vetmedica GmbH and C.H. Boehringer Sohn
against Commission Regulation No 1312/96 of 8 July 1996
amending Annex III to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90
laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of
maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in
foodstuffs of animal origin;

3. Orders Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GmbH and C.H.
Boehringer Sohn, both in the proceedings before the Court of
First Instance in Case T-152/96 and in those before the Court
of Justice, to bear their own costs and to pay the whole of the
costs incurred by the Commission of the European Communities;

4. Orders the Council of the European Union to bear the costs
which it has incurred in the proceedings before the Court of
First Instance in Case T-152/96;

5. Orders the Fédération Européenne de la Santé Animale (Fedesa)
and the Stichting Kwaliteitsgarantie Vleeskalverensector (SKV)
to bear
the costs which they have incurred both in the
proceedings before the Court of First Instance in Case T-152/96
and in those before the Court of Justice.

(1) OJ C 102 of 8.4.2000.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Sixth Chamber)

27 February 2002

in Case C-37/00 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from
the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden): Herbert Weber v
Universal Ogden Services Ltd (1)

(Brussels Convention — Article 5(1) — Courts for the place
of performance of the contractual obligation — Contract of
employment — Place where the employee habitually carries
out his work — Definition — Work performed partly at an
installation positioned over the continental shelf adjacent to
a Contracting State and partly in the territory of another
Contracting State)

(2002/C 109/11)

(Language of the case: Dutch)

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

In Case C-37/00: Reference to the Court under the Protocol of
3 June 1971 on the interpretation by the Court of Justice of