Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 27 March 2003 in Case C-1/02 SA: Antippas v Commission of the European Communities (Application for authorisation to serve a garnishee order on the Commission of the European Communities)
Date: 2003-09-06
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Congo, central bank, enforcement of ruling, seizure of goods

C 213/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

6.9.2003

measures are not
less favourable than those governing similar
domestic actions and do not make it practically impossible or
excessively difficult to exercise the rights conferred by Community
law.

( 1) OJ C 3 of 5.1.2002.

ORDER OF THE COURT

(Sixth Chamber)

of 28 March 2003

ORDER OF THE COURT

(Fifth Chamber)

of 27 March 2003

in Case C-75/02 P: Territorio Histórico de Áava —
Diputación Foral de Álava, Territorio Histórico de Bizkaia
— Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, Territorio Histórico de
Gipuzkoa — Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa y Juntas
Generales de Gipuzkoa and Comunidad Autónoma del
País Vasco — Gobierno Vasco v Commission of the
European Communities (1)

(Appeal — State aid — Aid in the steel sector — Action for
annulment — Article 33 CS — Action brought by an intra-
State authority — Appeal manifestly unfounded)

in Case C-1/02 SA: Antippas v Commission of the Euro-
pean Communities (1)

(Application for authorisation to serve a garnishee order on
the Commission of the European Communities)

(2003/C 213/07)

(Language of the case: Spanish)

(2003/C 213/06)

(Language of the case: French)

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

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

In Case C-1/02 SA, Antippas, company incorporated under
Congolese law, established in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic
of the Congo), (avocat: M. Spandre) v Commission of the
European Communities (Agents: M. De Pauw and B. Mar-
tenczuk) — application for authorisation to serve a garnishee
order on the Commission of the European Communities — the
Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of: M. Wathelet, President of
the Chamber, C.W.A. Timmermans, P.
Jann S. von Bahr
(Rapporteur) and A. Rosas, Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate
General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 27 March
2003, the operative part of which is as follows:

1.

The application is dismissed.

2. Antippas is ordered to pay the costs.

( 1) OJ C 247 of 12.10.2002.

In Case C-75/02 P: Territorio Histórico de Áava — Diputación
Foral de Álava, Territorio Histórico de Bizkaia — Diputación
Foral de Bizkaia, Territorio Histórico de Gipuzkoa — Diputa-
ción Foral de Gipuzkoa y Juntas Generales de Gipuzkoa and
Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco — Gobierno Vasco v
Commission of the European Communities (avocat: R. Falcón
y Tella) APPEAL against the order of the Court of First Instance
of the European Communities (Third Chamber, Extended
Composition) delivered on 11 January 2002 in Case T-77/01
Diputación Floral de Álava and Others v Commission [2002]
ECR II-81, by which the Court held inadmissible the action
brought by the appellants against Commission Decision 2001/
168/ECSC of 31 October 2000 on Spain’ corporation tax laws
(OJ 2001 L 60, p. 57), seeking to have that order set aside the
other party to the proceedings being Commission of the
European Communities (Agents: G. Rozet and J.L. Buendía
Sierra) — the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of:
J.-P.
Puissochet (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, G. Gul-
mann, F. Macken and N. Coleric, and J.N. Cunha Rodrigues,
Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has
given a judgment on 28 March 2003, the operative part of
which is as follows:

1.

The appeal is dismissed.