Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 27 February 2003 in Case T-20/00 OP: Commission of the European Communities v Ivo Camacho-Fernandes (Officials — Occupational disease — Irregularity in the opinion of the medical committee — Objection against a judgment given by default)
Date: 2003-05-10
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, action for annulment (EU), asbestos, cancer, equality before the law, occupational disease

10.5.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 112/25

26 August 1999 (SG(99) D/7.040) rejecting a complaint
submitted pursuant
the Court of First
to Article 82 EC,
Instance (First Chamber, Extended Composition), composed
of: B. Vesterdorf, President, K. Lenaerts, J. Azizi, N.J. Forwood
and H. Legal,
for the
Registrar, has given a judgment on 4 March 2003, in which it:

J. Plingers, Administrator,

Judges;

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 6 March 2003

1. Dismisses the application;

2. Orders the applicant to bear its own costs together with those

incurred by the Commission.

in Case T-56/00: Dole Fresh Fruit International Ltd v
Council of the European Union and Commission of the
European Communities (1)

( 1) OJ C 79 of 18.3.2000.

(Bananas — Common organisation of the markets —
Decision 94/800/EC — Regulation (EC) No 478/95 —
Export licence scheme — Action for damages)

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 27 February 2003

in Case T-20/00 OP: Commission of the European Com-
munities v Ivo Camacho-Fernandes (1)

(Officials — Occupational disease — Irregularity in the
opinion of the medical committee — Objection against a
judgment given by default)

(2003/C 112/45)

(Language of the case: French)

In Case T-20/00 OP: Commission of the European Communi-
ties (Agents: J. Currall and J.-L. Fagnart) against Ivo Camacho-
Fernandes, an official of the Commission of the European
Communities, residing in Overijse (Belgium), represented by
N. Lhoëst, lawyer, with an address for service in Luxembourg
— objection against the judgment of the Court of First Instance
of 15 November 2000 in Case T-20/00 Camacho-Fernandes v
Commission [2000] ECR-SC I-A-249 and II-1149 given by
default, annulling the Commission decision of 10 February
1999 refusing to recognise the occupational origin of the lung
cancer which resulted in the death of Mr Camacho Fernandes’s
wife — the Court of First Instance (First Chamber), composed
of: B. Vesterdorf, President, M. Vilaras and N.J. Forwood,
Judges; D. Christensen, Administrator, for the Registrar, has
given a judgment on 27 February 2003, in which it:

1. Dismisses the objection;

2. Orders the Commission to pay the costs of the objection.

( 1) OJ C 122 of 29.4.2000.

(2003/C 112/46)

(Language of the case: English)

In Case T-56/00, Dole Fresh Fruit International Ltd, established
in San José (Costa Rica), represented by B. O’Connor, Solicitor,
with an address for service in Luxembourg, v Council of the
European Union (Agents: S. Marquardt and J.-P. Hix) and
Commission of the European Communities (Agents: initially
P. Oliver and C. Van der Hauwaert, then L. Visaggio and
K. Fitch): Application for compensation for the damage
allegedly suffered by the applicant by reason of the introduc-
tion of the export licence scheme by Council Decision 94/
800/EC of 22 December 1994 concerning the conclusion on
behalf of the European Community, as regards matters within
its competence, of the agreements reached in the Uruguay
Round multilateral negotiations (1986-1994) (OJ 1994 L 336,
p. 1) and by Commission Regulation (EC) No 478/95 of
1 March 1995 on additional rules for the application of
Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards the tariff quota
arrangements for imports of bananas into the Community and
amending Regulation (EEC) No 1442/93 (OJ 1995 L 49, p. 13),
the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber), composed of:
J.D. Cooke, President, R. García-Valdecasas and P. Lindh,
Judges; J. Palacio González, Principal Administrator, for the
Registrar, has given a judgment on 6 March 2003, in which it:

1. Dismisses the application;

2. Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and to pay those of

the Council and the Commission.

(1) OJ C 135 of 13.05.2000.