Joined Cases T-213/01 and T-214/01: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 7 June 2006 — Österreichische Postsparkasse and Bank für Arbeit und Wirtschaft v Commission (Action for annulment — Competition — Regulation No 17 — Regulation (EC) No 2842/98 — Decision 2001/462/EC, ECSC — Hearing Officer — Measure having binding legal effects — Admissibility — Legitimate interest — Standing of applicant or complainant — Client final buyer of goods or services — Access to statements of objections — Confidential information — Sufficient interest)
Date: 2006-08-12
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: Austria, European Commission, action for annulment (EU), competition law, credit institution, economic concentration

C 190/16

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

12.8.2006

2. The Commission shall bear its own costs and 75 % of the appli-
cants' costs, apart from those caused by the interventions, before
the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justice;

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

3. The applicants shall bear the remainder of their own costs before

the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justice;

1. Dismisses the actions.

4. The French Republic, Chronopost SA and La Poste shall bear their
own costs before the Court of First Instance and the Court of
Justice.

2. Orders the applicants to pay two thirds of the costs of the main
proceedings and the whole of the costs of the interlocutory proceed-
ings.

(1) OJ C 72, 7.3.1998

3. Orders the Commission to pay one third of the costs of the main

proceedings.

(1) OJ C 331, 24.11.2001.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 7 June 2006 —
Österreichische Postsparkasse and Bank für Arbeit und
Wirtschaft v Commission

(Joined Cases T-213/01 and T-214/01) (1)

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 6 June 2006 —
Girardot v Commission

(Action for annulment — Competition — Regulation No 17
— Regulation (EC) No 2842/98 — Decision 2001/462/EC,
ECSC — Hearing Officer — Measure having binding legal
effects — Admissibility — Legitimate interest — Standing of
applicant or complainant — Client final buyer of goods or
services — Access to statements of objections — Confidential
information — Sufficient interest)

(Case T-10/02) (1)

(Staff case — Members of the temporary staff — Illegal
rejection of candidature — Annulment — Reinstatement of
the situation existing prior to the illegality — Fair financial
compensation — Loss of the opportunity to take up a vacant
post — Equitable assessment)

(2006/C 190/26)

Language of the case: German

(2006/C 190/27)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: Österreichische Postsparkasse AG (Vienna, Austria)
(represented by:
initially M. Klusmann, F. Wiemer and A.
Reidlinger, then H.-J. Niemeyer, lawyers) and Bank für Arbeit
und Wirtschaft AG (Vienna) (represented by: H.-J. Niemeyer,
lawyer)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: S. Rating, Agent)

Parties

Applicant: Marie-Claude Girardot
France)
(represented by: N. Lhoëst and É. Schietere de Lophem, lawyers
)

(L'Haÿ-les-Roses,

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
initially F. Clotuche-Duvieusart, L. Lozana-Palacios
sented by:
and H. Tserepa-Lacombe, then F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and H.
Tserepa-Lacombe, agents)

Re:

Annulment of the decisions of the Hearing Officer of 9 August
2001 and 25 July 2001, respectively, to disclose to an Austrian
political party (the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs) the non-
confidential versions of the statements of objections relating to
a proceeding under Article 81 EC concerning the fixing of
banking tariffs (COMP/36.571-Österreische Banken)

Re:

Setting of the amount of fair financial compensation payable
by the Commission to Ms Girardot pursuant to the judgment
of the Court of First Instance of 31 March 2004 in Case T-10/
02 Girardot v Commission (ECR-SC I-A-109 and II-483)