Judgment of the Court of 3 July 2003 in Joined Cases C-83/01 P, C-93/01 P and C-94/01 P: Chronopost and Others (Appeal — State aid — Postal sector — Public undertaking entrusted with a service of general economic interest — Logistical and commercial assistance to a subsidiary not operating in a reserved sector — Concept of State aid — Criterion of private operator acting under normal market conditions)
Date: 2003-08-23
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: France, General Court (EU), action for annulment (EU), postal service, subsidiary, transport company

C 200/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

23.8.2003

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

2.

Refers the case back to the Court of First Instance;

of 3 July 2003

3.

Reserves the costs.

(1) OJ C 150 of 19.5.2001 of OJ C 134 of 5.5.2001.

in Joined Cases C-83/01 P, C-93/01 P and C-94/01 P:
Chronopost and Others (1)

(Appeal — State aid — Postal sector — Public undertaking
entrusted with a service of general economic interest —
Logistical and commercial assistance to a subsidiary not
operating in a reserved sector — Concept of State aid —
Criterion of private operator acting under normal market
conditions)

(2003/C 200/06)

(Language of the case: French)

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

(France)

Instance of

In Joined Cases C-83/01 P, C-93/01 P and C-94/01 P, Chrono-
post SA, established in Issy-les-Moulineaux (France),
(repre-
(C-83/01 P),
sented by V. Bouaziz Torron and D. Berlin)
LaPoste, established in Boulogne-Billancourt
(repre-
sented by H. Lehman)
(C-94/01 P) French Republic (Agents:
G. de Bergues and F. Million) (C-93/01 P): Appeals against the
the Court of First
judgment of
the European
Communities
(Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition) of
14 December 2000 in Case T-613/97 Ufex and Others v
Commission [2000] ECR II-4055, seeking to have that judg-
the other parties to the proceedings being:
ment set aside,
Union française de l'express (Ufex), established in Roissy-en-
France (France), DHL International, established in Roissy-en-
France, Federal express international (France) SNC, established
(France), CRIE SA established in Asnières
in Gennevilliers
(France) (represented by E. Morgan de Rivery and J. Derenne)
the Court,
and Commission of
President,
composed
J.-
P. Puissochet and M. Wathelet
(Presidents of
Chambers), C. Gulmann, D. A. O. Edward, P. Jann, V. Skouris,
F. Macken, N. Colneric, S. von Bahr and A. Rosas,
Judges;
A. Tizzano, Advocate General; M.-F. Contet, Principal Admin-
istrator,
for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 3 July
2003, in which it:

the European Communities,

Iglesias,
(Rapporteur)

of: G. C. Rodríguez

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

of 10 July 2003

in Case C-87/01 P: Commission of the European Commu-
régions d'Europe
nities v Conseil des communes et

(CCRE) (1)

(Appeal — Commission decision effecting set-off between
two claims governed by separate legal orders — Set-off in
disregard of the rules of national law governing one of the
claims concerned — Illegality)

(2003/C 200/07)

(Language of the case: French)

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

Instance of

the Court of First

In Case C-87/01 P, Commission of the European Communities
(Agents: P. Oliver and H. M. H. Speyart): Appeal against the
judgment of
the European
Communities (Fourth Chamber) of 14 December 2000 in
Case T-105/99 CEMR v Commission [2000] ECR II-4099,
seeking to have that judgment set aside, the other party to
the proceedings being: Conseil des communes et régions d'Eu-
(represented by
rope (CCRE), established in Paris
composed of:
F. Herbert
and
G. C. Rodríguez
R. Schintgen (Presidents of Chambers), C. Gulmann, A. La
Pergola (Rapporteur), P. Jann, V. Skouris, N. Colneric, S. von
Bahr,
Judges; P. Léger,
Advocate General; H. von Holstein, Deputy Registrar, has given
a judgment on 10 July 2003, in which it:

J. N. Cunha Rodrigues and A. Rosas,

President, M. Wathelet

F. Renard),
Iglesias,

(France)
the Court,

and

1.

Sets aside the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the
European Communities of 14 December 2000 in Case T-613/
97 Ufex and Others v Commission;

1.

Sets aside the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the
European Communities of 14 December 2000 in Case T-105/
99 CEMR v Commission;