Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of  12 January 2006  in Case C-183/03 Federal Republic of Germany v Commission of the European Communities (EAGGF — Decision 2003/102/EC — Expenditure excluded from Community financing — Arable cultures sector)
Date: 2006-03-11
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, European Commission, Germany, action for annulment (EU), aid to agriculture, area of holding, crop production

11.3.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 60/1

I

(Information)

COURT OF JUSTICE

COURT OF JUSTICE

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Third Chamber)

of 12 January 2006

in Case C-183/03 Federal Republic of Germany v Commis-
sion of the European Communities (1)

(EAGGF — Decision 2003/102/EC — Expenditure excluded
from Community financing — Arable cultures sector)

(2006/C 60/01)

(Language of the case: German)

In Case C-183/03 Federal Republic of Germany (Agents: W.-D.
the European
Plessing and A. Tiemann) v Commission of
Communities (Agents: M. Niejahr and G. Braun) — application
for annulment under Article 230 EC, brought on 24 April
2003 — the Court (Third Chamber Chamber), composed of A.
Rosas, President of the Chamber, J. Malenovský, S. von Bahr
(Rapporteur), A. Borg Barthet and A. Ó Caoimh, Judges; A.
Tizzano, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judg-
ment on 12 January 2006, in which it:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 146 of 21.06.2003.

(Second Chamber)

of 10 January 2006

in Case C-230/03: Reference for a preliminary ruling from
the Bundesverwaltungsgericht Mehmet Sedef v Freie und
Hansestadt Hamburg (1)

(EEC-Turkey Association — Freedom of movement
for
workers — Article 6 of Decision No 1/80 of the Association
Council — Right to the extension of a residence permit —
Conditions — Turkish national who was employed in the
maritime shipping industry of a Member State for 15 years
— Same employer for more than one year without interrup-
tion, but not up to the end of a period of three years —
Periods of employment interrupted 17 times on account of
the nature of the occupation)

(2006/C 60/02)

(Language of the case: German)

In Case C-230/03: reference for a preliminary ruling under
Article 234 EC from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Germany),
made by decision of 18 March 2003, received at the Court on
26 May 2003, in the proceedings between Mehmet Sedef and
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, in the presence of Vertreter des
Bundesinteresses beim Bundesverwaltungsgericht — the Court
(Second Chamber) composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, President
of the Chamber, C. Gulman, R. Schintgen (Rapporteur), G.
Arestis and J. Klučka, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate
General; K. Sztranc, Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a
judgment on 10 January 2006, in which it ruled:

Article 6 of Decision No 1/80 of 19 September 1980 on the devel-
opment of
the Association, adopted by the Association Council
created by the agreement establishing an association between the
European Economic Community and Turkey, is to be interpreted as
meaning that:

— enjoyment of the rights conferred on a Turkish worker by the third
indent of paragraph 1 of that article presupposes in principle that
the person concerned has already fulfilled the conditions set out in
the second indent of that paragraph;