Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 15 September 2005 in Case C-199/03: Ireland v Commission of the European Communities (Action for annulment — European Social Fund — Reduction of Community financial assistance — Manifest error of assessment — Proportionality — Legal certainty — Legitimate expectations)
Date: 2005-10-29
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU aid, European Commission, European Social Fund, Ireland, action for annulment (EU)

29.10.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 271/3

Salute and Coordinamento delle associazioni per la difesa
dell'ambiente e dei diritti degli utenti e dei consumatori
(Codacons), Federconsumatori,
intervening parties: Lega delle
Cooperative, Associazione Italiana Industrie Prodotti Alimentari
(AIIPA), Adusbef — the Court (Second Chamber) composed of
C.W.A. Timmermans (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber,
C. Gulmann and R. Schintgen,,
Judges; P. Léger, Advocate
General, M. Múgica Arzamendi, Principal Administrator, Regis-
trar, gave a judgment on 26 May 2005, the operative part of
which is as follows:

Article 2(2)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1139/98 of 26 May
1998 concerning the compulsory indication on the labelling of certain
foodstuffs produced from genetically modified organisms of particulars
other than those provided for in Directive 79/112/EEC, as amended
by Commission Regulation (EC) No 49/2000 of 10 January 2000,
is to be interpreted as meaning that the exemption for which it
provides from the obligation, laid down in Article 2(1) and (3) of
that regulation, to state on the labelling of foodstuffs that material
derived from certain GMOs is present, where such presence is the
result of adventitious
contamination and does not exceed a de
minimis threshold of 1 %, also applies to foodstuffs intended for the
particular nutritional use of infants and young children.

(1) OJ C 135 of 07.06.2003.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Second Chamber)

of 15 September 2005

in Case C-199/03: Ireland v Commission of the European
Communities (1)

(Action for annulment — European Social Fund — Reduc-
tion of Community financial assistance — Manifest error of
assessment — Proportionality — Legal certainty — Legiti-
mate expectations)

(2005/C 271/05)

(Language of the case: English)

In Case C-199/03: Ireland (Agent: D. O'Hagan, P. Gallagher SC
and P. McGarry BL) v Commission of the European Commu-
nities (Agent: L. Flynn) — action for annulment under Article
230 EC, brought on 13 May 2003 — the Court (Second
Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the
Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta (Rapporteur), R. Schintgen, G.
Arestis and J. Klučka, Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate General; L.

Hewlett, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judg-
ment on 15 September 2005, in which it:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders Ireland to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 200 of 23.08.2003.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Second Chamber)

of 15 September 2005

in Joined Cases C-281/03 and C-282/03, Reference for a
preliminary ruling from the College van Beroep voor het
bedrijfsleven: Cindu Chemicals BV and Others v College
voor de toelating van bestrijdingsmiddelen (1)

(Directive 76/769/EEC — Dangerous substances — Ability
of the Member States to lay down additional conditions for
the placing on the market and use of a biocidal product the
use of whose active substance is restricted by the directive —
Wood preservatives containing coal-tar distillates (carbo-
containing
lineum and creosote) — Wood preservatives

copper, chrome and arsenic)

(2005/C 271/06)

(Language of the case: Dutch)

In Joined Cases C-281/03 and C-282/03: references for a preli-
minary ruling under Article 234 EC from the College van
Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven (Netherlands), made by decision
of 26 June 2003, received at the Court on 30 June 2003, in
the proceedings between Cindu Chemicals BV (C-281/03),
Rütgers VFT AG, Touwen & Co. BV, Pearl Paint Holland
BV, Elf Atochem Nederland BV, Zijlstra & Co. Verf BV,
Chemische Producten Struyk & Co. BV, Van Swaay
Schijndel BV, Houtbereiding G. Rozendaal BV, Arch
Timber Protection BV (C-282/03) and College voor de
toelating van bestrijdingsmiddelen,
intervener: Stichting
Behoud Leefmilieu en Natuur Maas en Waal — the Court
(Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, Presi-
dent of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta, J. Makarczyk, P.
Kūris and G. Arestis (Rapporteur), Judges; F.G. Jacobs, Advocate
General; M.-F. Contet, Principal Administrator, for the Regis-
trar, gave a judgment on 15 September 2005, the operative
part of which is as follows: