Assignment of Judges to the Chambers
Date: 2006-08-12
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: General Court (EU), appointment of staff, member of the Court of Justice (EU)

C 190/14

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Official Journal of the European Union

12.8.2006

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

Election of a President of a Chamber of three Judges

Fourth Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

(2006/C 190/23)

Mr Legal, President of Chamber

On 5 July 2006, the Court of First Instance elected, in accord-
ance with Article 15(3) of the Rules of Procedure, Judge Cooke
as President of a Chamber of three Judges for the period from
1 October 2006 to 31 August 2007.

Assignment of Judges to the Chambers

(2006/C 190/24)

On 5 July 2006, the Court of First Instance decided to establish
five Chambers of five Judges and five Chambers of three Judges
for the period from 1 October 2006 to 31 August 2007 and to
assign Judges to them as follows:

First Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five Judges:

Mr Vesterdorf, President, Mr Cooke, Mr García-Valdecasas, Ms
Labucka and Ms Trstenjak, Judges;

First Chamber, sitting with three judges:

Mr Cooke, President of Chamber, Mr García-Valdecasas, Ms
Labucka and Ms Trstenjak, Judges;

Second Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five
Judges:

Mr Pirrung, President of Chamber, Mr Meij, Mr Forwood, Ms
Pelikánová and Mr Papasavvas, Judges;

Second Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

Mr Pirrung, President of Chamber

(a) Mr Meij and Ms Pelikánová, Judges;

(b) Mr Forwood and Mr Papasavvas, Judges;

Third Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five Judges:

Jaeger, President of Chamber, Ms Tiili, Mr Azizi, Ms

Mr
Cremona and Mr Czúcz, Judges;

Third Chamber, sitting with three judges:

Mr Jaeger, President of Chamber

(a) Ms Tiili and Mr Czúcz, Judges;

(b) Mr Azizi and Ms Cremona, Judges;

Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition,
judges:

sitting with five

Mr Legal, President of Chamber, Ms Lindh, Ms Wiszniewska-
Białecka, Mr Vadapalas and Mr Moavero Milanesi, Judges;

(a) Ms Lindh and Mr Vadapalas, Judges;

(b) Ms Wiszniewska-Białecka and Mr Moavero Milanesi, Judges;

Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition, sitting with five judges:

Mr Vilaras, President of Chamber, Ms Martins Ribeiro, Mr
Dehousse, Mr Šváby and Ms Jürimäe, Judges;

Fifth Chamber, sitting with three Judges:

Mr Vilaras, President of Chamber

(a) Ms Martins Ribeiro and Ms Jürimäe, Judges;

(b) Mr Dehousse and Mr Šváby, Judges.

In the First Chamber sitting with three Judges, the Judges who
sit with the President of the Chamber to make up the Chamber
will be designated in turn, in the order provided for by Article
6 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance,
subject to the presence of connected cases. In the Second to
Fifth Chambers sitting with three Judges, the President of the
Chamber will sit either with the Judges referred to at (a) above
or with those referred to at (b) above, depending on which of
those formations the Judge-Rapporteur belongs to. For cases in
which the President of the Chamber is the Judge-Rapporteur,
the President of the Chamber will sit with the Judges of one or
other of those formations alternately in accordance with the
order in which the cases are registered, subject to the presence
of connected cases.

In cases where the written procedure was completed and a
hearing in the oral procedure was held or fixed before 1
October 2006, the First Chamber sitting with three Judges shall
continue to sit with the same composition as previously for the
oral procedure, the deliberation and the judgment.

Composition of the Grand Chamber

Instance,

the Presidents of

the Court of First

On 5 July 2006 the Court of First Instance decided, in accord-
ance with Article 10(1) of the Rules of Procedure, that for the
period from 1 October 2006 to 31 August 2007 the 13 Judges
of whom the Grand Chamber is composed shall be the Presi-
the
dent of
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Chambers, Extended Composi-
tions, the Judges of the Chamber, Extended Composition, who
would have had to hear the case in question if it had been
assigned to a Chamber composed of five Judges, and as many
other Judges as necessary to complete the Grand Chamber,
designated by the President of the Court of First Instance, from
among the Judges of each of the other Chambers, in the order
of precedence of those Judges within their Chambers according
to seniority in office under Article 6 of the Rules of Procedure
of the Court of First Instance,
in a rota applied during the
period of three years for which the Presidents of the Chambers
composed of five Judges are elected.

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 190/15

Plenary session

On 5 July 2006 the Court of First Instance decided, in accord-
ance with the second subparagraph of Article 32(1) of the
Rules of Procedure, that where, following the designation of an
Advocate General pursuant to Article 17 of the Rules of Proce-
dure, there is an even number of Judges in the Court of First
Instance sitting in plenary session,
the rota established in
advance, applied during the period of three years for which the
Presidents of
five Judges are
elected, in accordance with which the President of the Court is
to designate the Judge who will not take part in the judgment
of the case shall be in reverse order to the order in which the
Judges rank according to their seniority in office under Article
6 of the Rules of Procedure unless the Judge who would thus
be designated is the Judge-Rapporteur. In that event, it is the
Judge ranking immediately above him who shall be designated.

the Chambers composed of

Designation of the Judge replacing the President of the
Court of First Instance as the Judge hearing applications
for interim measures

On 5 July 2006 the Court of First Instance decided, in accord-
ance with Article 106 of the Rules of Procedure, to designate
Judge García-Valdecasas to replace the President of the Court of
First
Instance for the purpose of deciding applications for
interim measures where the latter is absent or prevented from
dealing with them, in respect of the period from 1 October
2006 to 31 August 2007.

Criteria for assigning cases to Chambers

On 5 July 2006 the Court of First Instance laid down criteria as
follows for the assignment of cases to the Chambers for the
period from 1 October 2006 to 31 August 2006, in accord-
ance with Article 12 of the Rules of Procedure:

1. Cases shall be assigned, as soon as applications have been
lodged and without prejudice to any subsequent application
of Articles 14 and 51 of the Rules of Procedure, to Cham-
bers of three Judges.

2. Cases shall be allocated to the Chambers in turn, in accord-
ance with the date on which they are registered at the
Registry, following three separate rotas, namely:

— for cases concerning application of

the competition
rules applicable to undertakings, the rules on State aid
and the rules on trade protection measures;

— for cases concerning the intellectual property rights
referred to in Article 130(1) of the Rules of Procedure;

— for all other cases.

In applying those rotas, the First Chamber shall not be taken
into consideration at each fifth turn.

The President of the Court of First Instance may derogate from
the rotas on the ground that cases are related or with a view to
ensuring an even spread of the workload.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 7 June 2006 —
UFEX and Others v Commission

(Case T-613/97) (1)

(State aid — Postal sector — Public undertaking entrusted
with a service of general economic interest — Logistical and
commercial assistance provided to a subsidiary not operating
in a reserved sector — Appeal — Referral of a case back to
the Court of First Instance)

(2006/C 190/25)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: Union française de l'express (UFEX)
(Roissy-en-
France, France), DHL International SA (Roissy-en-France),
(France) SNC (Gennevilliers,
Federal
(represented
France)
France)
by É. Morgan de Rivery and J. Derenne, lawyers)

express
and CRIE

SA (Asnières,

international

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by G. Rozet and D. Triantafyllou, Agents)

Interveners in support of the defendant: French Republic (repre-
sented by G. de Bergues, R. Abraham and F. Million, Agents),
Chronopost SA (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) (represented by V.
Bouaziz Torron and D. Berlin,
lawyers) and La Poste (Paris,
France) (represented by H. Lehman, lawyer)

Re:

Application for annulment of Commission Decision 98/365/EC
of 1 October 1997 concerning alleged State aid granted by
France to SFMI-Chronopost (OJ 1998 L 164, p. 37)

Operative part of the order

1. Commission Decision 98/365/EC of 1 October 1997 concerning
alleged State aid granted by France to SFMI-Chronopost
is
annulled in so far as that decision finds that neither the logistical
and commercial assistance provided by La Poste to its subsidiary,
SFMI-Chronopost, nor the transfer of Postadex constitute State
aid to SFMI-Chronopost;