Joined Cases C-101/07 P and C-110/07 P: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 18 December 2008 — Coop de France Bétail et Viande, formerly Fédération nationale de la coopération bétail et viande (FNCBV)/Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles (FNSEA), Fédération nationale bovine (FNB), Fédération nationale des producteurs de lait (FNPL), Jeunes agriculteurs (JA) v Commission of the European Communities, French Republic (Appeals — Competition — Market in beef and veal — Agreement between national federations of farmers and slaughterers with the object of suspending imports of beef and veal and fixing a minimum purchase price — Fines — Regulation No 17 — Article 15(2) — Taking into account of the turnover of undertakings which are members of the federations)
Date: 2008-12-18
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European Commission, France, action for annulment (EU), appeal, beef, import restriction, minimum price, trade agreement (EU)

21.2.2009

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 44/7

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Korkein hallinto-oikeus —
Interpretation of Articles 3(1), 9 and 17 of Directive 95/46/EC
of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October
1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the proces-
sing of personal data and on the free movement of such data
(OJ 1995 L 281, p. 31) — Scope — Collection, publication,
transfer and processing in a text-messaging service of public tax
data relating to the amount of income and taxable assets of
natural persons

Operative part of the judgment

1) Article 3(1) of Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of indi-
viduals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the
free movement of such data is to be interpreted as meaning that an
activity in which data on the earned and unearned income and the
assets of natural persons are:

Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 18 December
2008 — Coop de France Bétail et Viande,
formerly
Fédération nationale de la coopération bétail et viande
(FNCBV)/Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants
agricoles
(FNSEA), Fédération nationale bovine (FNB),
Fédération nationale des producteurs de lait (FNPL), Jeunes
(JA)
European
v Commission
agriculteurs
Communities, French Republic

the

of

(Joined Cases C-101/07 P and C-110/07 P) (1)

(Appeals — Competition — Market in beef and veal —
farmers and
Agreement between national
slaughterers with the object of suspending imports of beef and
veal and fixing a minimum purchase price — Fines — Regu-
lation No 17 — Article 15(2) — Taking into account of the
of undertakings which are members
the
turnover
federations)

federations of

of

(2009/C 44/11)

Language of the case: French

— collected from documents in the public domain held by the tax

Parties

authorities and processed for publication,

— published alphabetically in printed form by income bracket and

municipality in the form of comprehensive lists,

— transferred onward on CD-ROM to be used for commercial

purposes, and

telephone users

— processed for the purposes of a text-messaging service whereby
sending a text message
can, by
mobile
containing details of an individual's name and municipality of
residence to a given number,
receive in reply information
concerning the earned and unearned income and assets of that
person,

must be considered as the ‘processing of personal data’ within the
meaning of that provision.

2) Article 9 of Directive 95/46 is to be interpreted as meaning that
the activities referred to at points (a) to (d) of the first question,
relating to data from documents which are in the public domain
under national legislation, must be considered as activities involving
the processing of personal data carried out ‘solely for journalistic
purposes’, within the meaning of that provision, if the sole object
of those activities is the disclosure to the public of information,
opinions or ideas. Whether that is the case is a matter for the
national court to determine.

3) Activities involving the processing of personal data such as those
referred to at points (c) and (d) of the first question and relating to
personal data files which contain solely, and in unaltered form,
material that has already been published in the media, fall within
the scope of application of Directive 95/46.

(1) OJ C 95, 28.4.2007.

Appellants: Coop de France Bétail et Viande, formerly Fédération
nationale de la coopération bétail et viande (FNCBV)
(repre-
sented by M. Ponsard, avocat) (C-101/07 P), Fédération natio-
nale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles (FNSEA), Fédération
nationale bovine (FNB), Fédération nationale des producteurs de
lait (FNPL), Jeunes agriculteurs (JA) (represented by V. Ledoux
and B. Neouze, avocats) (C-110/07 P),

Other parties to the proceedings: French Republic (represented by
the
G. de Bergues and S. Ramet, Agents), Commission of
European Communities (represented by A. Bouquet and X.
Lewis, Agents)

Re:

Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (First
Chamber) of 13 December 2006 in Joined Cases T-217/03 and
T-245/03 FNCBV and Others v Commission, by which the Court
of First Instance dismissed the applicants' application primarily,
to annul Commission Decision 2003/600/EC of 2 April 2003
relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 of the EC Treaty
(OJ 2003 L 209, p. 12) or, alternatively, to cancel or reduce the
fine imposed by that decision — Constituent elements of a
cartel — Need for acquiescence of the parties — Method of
calculating the fines — Entitlement to take into account the
turnover of the members of an association where it does not
have formal power to bind its members — Duty to state
reasons and infringement of the rights of the defence

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the appeals;

2. Orders Coop de France bétail et viande, formerly Fédération natio-
nale de la coopération bétail et viande (FNCBV), Fédération natio-
nale des
(FNSEA), Fédération
nationale bovine (FNB), Fédération nationale des producteurs de
lait (FNPL) and Jeunes agriculteurs (JA) to pay the costs;

syndicats d'exploitants agricoles

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3. Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs.

(1) OJ C 95, 28.4.2007.

European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on
the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified
organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC, which
diverge from or go beyond the provisions of Council Directive
90/220/EEC of 23 April 1990 on the deliberate release into the
environment of genetically modified organisms, the French Republic
has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 228(1) EC;

Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 9 December
the European Communities v
2008 — Commission of

French Republic

(Case C-121/07) (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive
2001/18/EC — Deliberate release into the environment and
placing on the market of GMOs — Judgment of the Court
establishing the failure of a Member State to fulfil its obliga-
tions — Non-compliance — Article 228 EC — Judgment
complied with during the proceedings — Pecuniary penalties)

(2009/C 44/12)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: B. Stromsky and C. Zadra, acting as Agents)

2. Orders the French Republic to pay to the Commission of

the
‘European Community own

European Communities,
resources’ account, a lump sum of EUR 10 million;

into the

3. Orders the French Republic to pay the costs;

4. Orders the Czech Republic to bear its own costs.

(1) OJ C 95, 28.4.2007.

Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 16 December
2008 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil
d'État — France) — Société Arcelor Atlantique et Lorraine,
Sollac Méditerrannée,
Packaging
International, Société Ugine & Alz France, Société
Industeel Loire, Société Creusot Métal, Société Imphy
Alloys, Arcelor SA v Premier ministre, Ministre de
l'Écologie et du Développement durable, Ministre de
l'Économie, des Finances et de l'Industrie

Arcelor

Société

Defendant: French Republic (represented by: E. Belliard, S. Gasri
and G. de Bergues, acting as Agents)

(Case C-127/07) (1)

Intervener in support of the defendant: Czech Republic (represented
by: initially, T. Boček and, subsequently, M. Smolek, acting as
Agents)

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Failure to
comply with the judgment of the Court of 15 July 2004 in Case
C-419/03 concerning the failure to transpose the provisions of
Directive 2001/18/EC Directive 2001/18/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the delib-
erate release into the environment of genetically modified organ-
isms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC on the delib-
erate release into the environment of genetically modified organ-
isms (OJ 2001 L 106, p. 1), which diverge from or go beyond
the provisions of that directive — Application for the imposi-
tion of a penalty payment and a lump sum payment

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Declares that, by failing to take, by the date on which the deadline
imposed in the reasoned opinion expired, all the measures necessary
to comply with the judgment of 15 July 2004 in Case C-419/03
failure to transpose into
Commission v France concerning its
the
national

law the provisions of Directive 2001/18/EC of

(Environment — Integrated pollution prevention and control
— Greenhouse gas emission allowance trading scheme —
Directive 2003/87/EC — Scope — Installations in the steel
sector
chemical and
non-ferrous metal sectors excluded — Principle of equal
treatment)

included — Installations

in the

(2009/C 44/13)

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Conseil d'État

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicants: Société Arcelor Atlantique et Lorraine, Sollac Méditer-
rannée, Société Arcelor Packaging International, Société Ugine &
Alz France, Société Industeel Loire, Société Creusot Métal,
Société Imphy Alloys, Arcelor SA

Defendants: Premier ministre, Ministre de l'Écologie et du Dével-
oppement durable, Ministre de l'Économie, des Finances et de
l'Industrie