Case T-310/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 November 2007 — Hungary v Commission of the European Communities (Agriculture — Common organisation of the markets in cereals — Taking-over of cereals by intervention agencies — Upgrading of the criteria of the quality for maize — Introduction of a new criterion of specific weight for maize — Breach of the principle of protection of legitimate expectations — Manifest error of assessment)
Date: 2007-12-22
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, Hungary, action for annulment (EU), common organisation of markets, intervention agency, maize, quality control of agricultural products, weights and measures

22.12.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 315/39

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 November
the European
2007 — Hungary v Commission of

Communities

(Case T-310/06) (1)

(Agriculture — Common organisation of the markets in
cereals — Taking-over of cereals by intervention agencies —
Upgrading of the criteria of the quality for maize — Introduc-
tion of a new criterion of specific weight for maize — Breach
of the principle of protection of legitimate expectations —
Manifest error of assessment)

(2007/C 315/73)

Language of the case: Hungarian

Parties

Applicant: Republic of Hungary (represented by: J. Fazekas, R.
Somssich and K. Szíjjártó, Agents)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and Z. Pataki, Agents)

Re:

of

annulment

Commission

Partial
(EC)
No 1572/2006 of 18 October 2006 amending Regulation (EC)
No 824/2000 establishing procedures for the taking-over of
cereals by intervention agencies and laying down methods of
analysis for determining the quality of cereals (OJ 2006 L 290,
p. 29)

Regulation

2. Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those
incurred by the applicant, including the costs relating to the inter-
locutory proceedings.

(1) OJ C 326, 30.12.2006.

Order of the Court of First Instance of 19 October 2007 —
Evropaïki Dynamiki v EFSA

(Case T-69/05) (1)

(No need to adjudicate — Public procurement — European
Food Safety Authority (EFSA) — Cancellation of the call for
tenders — Action which has become devoid of purpose)

(2007/C 315/74)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant:
Systimata
Evropaïki Dynamiki — Proigmena
Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE (Athens, Greece)
(represented by: N. Korogiannakis)

Defendant: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (represented
by: initially, A. Cuvillier and D. Detken, and subsequently by A.
Cuvillier and S. Gabbi, Agents, and J. Stuyck, lawyer)

Operative part of the judgment

Re:

The Court:

1. Annuls

of

the

provisions

Commission Regulation

(EC)
No 1572/2006 of 18 October 2006 amending Regulation (EC)
No 824/2000 establishing procedures
the taking-over of
cereals by intervention agencies and laying down methods of
analysis for determining the quality of cereals relating to the
criterion of specific weight for maize, viz:

for

APPLICATION for annulment of the decision of the European
Food Safety Authority (EFSA) of 3 December 2004 rejecting the
tender submitted by the applicant in the tendering procedure
concerning the supply of IT services for establishing an extranet
between Member States' national agencies, the EFSA and the
Commission, and also of the decision to award the contract to
another tenderer

— in Article 1(1), the words ‘and, in the case of maize, with the

traditional methods applied’;

Operative part of the order

1. There is no need to adjudicate on this case.

— in Article 1(3)(b), the words ‘73 kg/hl for maize’;

2. The EFSA shall pay all the costs.

— in line ‘E. Minimum specific weight (kg/hl)’ of the table in

point 1 of the Annex, the value ‘71’ for maize;

(1) OJ C 106, 30.4.2005.

— in table III in point 2 of the Annex, the reduction values for

the intervention price for maize.