Joined Cases T-376/05 and T-383/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of  14 February 2006  — TEA-CEGOS and Others v Commission (Public contracts — Community procedure for call for tenders — Recruitment of short-term experts responsible for providing technical assistance for the benefit of third countries benefiting from external aid — Rejection of tenders)
Date: 2006-04-08
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU aid, European Commission, action for annulment (EU), award of contract, contract, foreign policy, invitation to tender

8.4.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 86/27

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 February
2006 — TEA-CEGOS and Others v Commission

Order of the Court of First Instance of 13 October 2005
— Fintecna v Commission

(Joined Cases T-376/05 and T-383/05) (1)

(Public contracts — Community procedure for call
for
tenders — Recruitment of short-term experts responsible for
providing technical assistance for the benefit of third coun-
tries benefiting from external aid — Rejection of tenders)

(Case T-249/02) (1)

(European Social Fund — Reduction of financial assistance
— Action for annulment — Measure against which actions
may be brought — Preparatory measure — Inadmissibility)

(2006/C 86/53)

Language of the case: Italian

(2006/C 86/52)

Parties

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Fintecna — Finanziaria per i settori industriale e dei
servizi SpA (Rome,
(represented by: G. Roberti, A.
Franchi and R. de Lisa, lawyers)

Italy)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: initially L. Flynn and A. Aresu, subsequently E. de
March and L. Flynn, Agents, and A. Dal Ferro, lawyer)

Application for

Applicants: TEA-CEGOS, SA (Madrid, Spain) and Services tech-
niques globaux (STG) SA (Brussels, Belgium), in Case T-376/05
lawyers), and
(represented by: G. Vandersanden and L. Levi,
GHK Consulting Ltd (London, United Kingdom),
in Case T-
383/05 (represented by: M. Dittmer and J.-E. Svensson,
lawyers)

Annulment of the Commission's letter of 31 March 2000 in
relation to various pieces of financial assistance from the Euro-
pean Social Fund (ESF), granted to a number of operational
programmes under the Community scheme of support for the
achievement of Objectives 1, 3 and 4 in Italy (centre-north and
Mezzogiorno)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: M. Wilderspin and G. Boudot, Agents)

Operative part of the Order

1. The application is dismissed as inadmissible.

Application for

Annulment, first, of the Commission's decisions of 12 October
2005 rejecting the tenders submitted by the applicants in the
context of the procedure for the call for tenders bearing the
reference ‘EuropeAid/119860/C/SV/multi-Lot 7’ and, second, of
any other decision taken by the Commission in the context of
the same call for tenders following the decisions of 12 October
2005

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the actions.

2. The applicant shall bear its own costs and pay those of

the

Commission.

(1) OJ C 233, 28.9.2002.

Order of the Court of First Instance of 31 January 2006 —
Schneider Electric v Commission

(Case T-48/03) (1)

(Competition — Concentrations — Resumption of
the
control procedure following annulment by the Court of First
Instance of a decision prohibiting a concentration — Initia-
tion of the detailed examination phase — Abandonment of
the concentration — Closure of the control procedure —
Action for annulment — Acts adversely affecting the appli-
cant — Interest in bringing an action — Inadmissible)

2. Orders the applicants to pay the costs, including those relating to

the interlocutory procedures.

(2006/C 86/54)

Language of the case: French

(1) OJ C 315 of 10.12.2005

Parties

Applicant: Schneider Electric (Rueil-Malmaison) (represented by:
initially A. Winckler, M. Pittie and É de La Serre, then M. Pittie
and A. Winckler, lawyers)