do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Case C-32/08: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 2 July 2009 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil n o 1 de Alicante y n o 1 de Marca Comunitaria — Spain) — Fundación Española para la Innovación de la Artesanía (FEIA) v Cul de Sac Espacio Creativo SL, Acierta Product Position SA (Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Community designs — Articles 14 and 88 — Proprietor of the right to the Community design — Unregistered design — Commissioned design)
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU law, designs and models, industrial property, intellectual property, interpretation of the law, labour law, national law








C_2009205EN.01000702.xml










29.8.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 205/7





Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 2 July 2009 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil no 1 de Alicante y no 1 de Marca Comunitaria — Spain) — Fundación Española para la Innovación de la Artesanía (FEIA) v Cul de Sac Espacio Creativo SL, Acierta Product Position SA
(Case C-32/08) (1)

(Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Community designs - Articles 14 and 88 - Proprietor of the right to the Community design - Unregistered design - Commissioned design)
2009/C 205/11
Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Juzgado de lo Mercantil no 1 de Alicante y no 1 de Marca Comunitaria

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Fundación Española para la Innovación de la Artesanía (FEIA)

Defendants: Cul de Sac Espacio Creativo SL, Acierta Product Position SA

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Juzgado de lo Mercantil no 1 de Alicante y no 1 de Marca Comunitaria — Interpretation of Articles 14(1) and (3) and 88(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs (OJ 2002 L 3, p. 1) — Proprietor of the rights — Right vesting in the employer or in the employed designer — Definitions

Operative part of the judgment







1.


Article 14(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs does not apply to Community designs that have been produced as a result of a commission.










2.


In circumstances such as those of the main proceedings, Article 14(1) of Regulation No 6/2002 must be interpreted as meaning that the right to the Community design vests in the designer, unless it has been assigned by way of contract to his successor in title.






(1)  OJ C 92, 12.4.2008.
Case C-7/08: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 2 July 2009 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands)) — Har Vaessen Douane Service BV v Staatssecretaris van Financiën (Relief from import duties — Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 — Article 27 — Goods of a negligible individual value dispatched as a grouped consignment — Consignments dispatched direct from a third country to a consignee in the Community)
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: CCT duties, exemption from customs duties, import (EU), interpretation of the law








C_2009205EN.01000602.xml










29.8.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 205/6





Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 2 July 2009 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands)) — Har Vaessen Douane Service BV v Staatssecretaris van Financiën
(Case C-7/08) (1)

(Relief from import duties - Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 - Article 27 - Goods of a negligible individual value dispatched as a grouped consignment - Consignments dispatched direct from a third country to a consignee in the Community)
2009/C 205/09
Language of the case: Dutch

Referring court

Hoge Raad der Nederlanden

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Har Vaessen Douane Service BV

Defendant: Staatssecretaris van Financiën

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands) — Interpretation of Article 27 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 of 28 March 1983 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3357/91 (OJ 1991 L 105, p. 1) — Consignments dispatched direct from a third country to a consignee in the Community, each of negligible value but dispatched as a grouped consignment with a combined intrinsic value which exceeds the maximum value prescribed by law

Operative part of the judgment

Article 27 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 of 28 March 1983 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3357/91 of 7 November 1991, does not preclude grouped consignments of goods, with a combined intrinsic value which exceeds the value threshold laid down in Article 27, but which are individually of negligible value, from being admitted free of import duties, provided that each parcel of the grouped consignment is addressed individually to a consignee within the European Community. In that respect, the fact that the contractual partner of those consignees is itself established in the European Community is not relevant where the goods are dispatched directly from a third country to those consignees.


(1)  OJ C 92, 12.04.2008.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5507 — Q-Cells/Good Energies/Norsun/Sunfilm) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, energy distribution, exchange of information, merger control, solar energy, wind energy








C_2009150EN.01000102.xml










2.7.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 150/1





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case COMP/M.5507 — Q-Cells/Good Energies/Norsun/Sunfilm)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2009/C 150/02
On 28 May 2009, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the common market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004. The full text of the decision is available only in English and will be made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:






—


in the merger section of the Competition website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes,










—


in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm) under document number 32009M5507. EUR-Lex is the on-line access to the European law.
Information communicated by the EFTA States regarding State aid granted under the Act referred to in point 1j of Annex XV of the EEA Agreement (Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in application of Articles 87 and 88 of the treaty — General block exemption regulation)
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: EFTA Surveillance Authority
Subjects: Norway, State aid, control of State aid, exchange of information, large business








C_2009150EN.01000901.xml










2.7.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 150/9





Information communicated by the EFTA States regarding State aid granted under the Act referred to in point 1j of Annex XV of the EEA Agreement (Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in application of Articles 87 and 88 of the treaty — General block exemption regulation)
2009/C 150/11
PART I







Aid No


GBER 2/09 R&D




EFTA State


Norway




Region


Name of the Region (NUTS)
Sarpsborg, Østfold County


Regional aid status




Granting authority


Name


Østfold county council




Address


P.O.Box 220, N-1701 Sarpsborg




Webpage


www.ostfold-f.kommune.no




Title of the aid measure


Value-driven service innovation




National legal basis (Reference to the relevant national official publication)








—


‘Handlingsprogram for Kompetanseoffensiven 2015’ dec. 2007










—


Protocol from the board of Kompetanseoffensiven (Østfold County Council), decision on issue 13/2008










—


Final confirmation regarding fullfilment of recuirements, dated 6.2.09 — document 2009/478-4676/2009








Web link to the full text of the aid measure


http://www.borginnovasjon.no/?CatID=1185
http://www.ostfold-f.kommune.no/modules/module_123/proxy.asp?D=2&C=381&I=17392&mnusel=1034a1295a




Type of measure


Scheme


 




Ad hoc aid X


Name of the Beneficiary
Borg Innovasjon AS




Date of granting


Ad hoc aid


Confirmed granting 6.2.2009




Economic sector(s) concerned


Limited to specific sectors — Please specify in accordance with NACE Rev. 2.


72,20




Type of beneficiary


SME


 




Large enterprises


X




Budget


Annual overall amount of the budget planned under the scheme


NOK … (in millions)




Overall amount of the ad hoc aid awarded to the undertaking


NOK 1,2 (in millions)




For guarantees


NOK … (in millions)




Aid instrument (Article 5)


Grant


1,2 MNOK




PART II









General Objectives (list)


Objectives (list)


Maximum aid intensity in % or Maximum aid amount in NOK


SME — bonuses in %




Aid for research, development and innovation (Article 30-37)


Aid for research and development projects (Article 31)


Fundamental research (Article 31(2)(a))


… %


 




Industrial research (Article 31(2)(b))


50 %


 




Experimental development (Article 31(2)(c))


… %
Case T-256/09: Action brought on 2 July 2009 — AECOPS v Commission
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, Portugal, action for annulment (EU), application of EU law, infringement of EU law








C_2009220EN.01003303.xml










12.9.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 220/33





Action brought on 2 July 2009 — AECOPS v Commission
(Case T-256/09)
2009/C 220/71
Language of the case: Portuguese

Parties


Applicant: Associação de Empresas de Construção, Obras Públicas e Serviços (Aecops) (Lisbon, Portugal) (represented by: J.L. da Cruz Vilaça and L. Pinto Monteiro, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities

Form of order sought







—


Annul the decision of the Commission of the European Communities of 21 June 2005 in respect of File 89 0771 P1, reducing the aid granted by Decision C(89) 0570 of 22 March 1989 to PTE 48 504 201 and requiring reimbursement of the amount of PTE 53 310 198;










—


Order the Commission to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

Infringement of the right to a prior hearing: the applicant was not given the opportunity to comment before a definitive decision to reduce the financial assistance was adopted, which constitutes a breach of an essential procedural requirement the disregard of which renders such a decision void.
Infringement of the principal of legal certainty through limitation and excessive delay in adopting a decision.
Breach of the duty to state reasons: the contested decision fails to set out, even summarily, the reasons for reducing the assistance.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5539 — Safran/GEHP) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aeronautical industry, dangerous substance, economic concentration, environmental risk prevention, exchange of information, merger control, new technology, provision of services








C_2009150EN.01000302.xml










2.7.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 150/3





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case COMP/M.5539 — Safran/GEHP)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2009/C 150/06
On 26 June 2009, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the common market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004. The full text of the decision is available only in English and will be made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:






—


in the merger section of the Competition website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes,










—


in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm) under document number 32009M5539. EUR-Lex is the on-line access to the European law.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case COMP/M.5542 — NPM/Fortis/Helvoet) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: economic concentration, exchange of information, industrial capital, investment, merger control, natural rubber, plastics








C_2009150EN.01000202.xml










2.7.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 150/2





Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case COMP/M.5542 — NPM/Fortis/Helvoet)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2009/C 150/04
On 23 June 2009, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the common market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004. The full text of the decision is available only in English and will be made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:






—


in the merger section of the Competition website of the Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/). This website provides various facilities to help locate individual merger decisions, including company, case number, date and sectoral indexes,










—


in electronic form on the EUR-Lex website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm) under document number 32009M5542. EUR-Lex is the on-line access to the European law.
Case T-257/09: Action brought on 2 July 2009 — AECOPS v Commission
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, Portugal, action for annulment (EU), balance of payments assistance, infringement of EU law








C_2009220EN.01003401.xml










12.9.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 220/34





Action brought on 2 July 2009 — AECOPS v Commission
(Case T-257/09)
2009/C 220/72
Language of the case: Portuguese

Parties


Applicant: Associação de Empresas de Construção, Obras Públicas e Serviços (Aecops) (Lisbon, Portugal) (represented by: J.L. da Cruz Vilaça and L. Pinto Monteiro, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities

Form of order sought







—


Annul the decision of the Commission of the European Communities of 22 June 2005 in respect of File 89 0979 P3, reducing the aid granted by Decision C(89) 0570 of 22 March 1989 to PTE 426 070 and requiring the reimbursement of the amount of PTE 1 591 128;










—


Order the Commission to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

Infringement of the right to a prior hearing: the applicant was not given the opportunity to comment before a definitive decision to reduce the financial assistance was adopted, which constitutes the breach of an essential procedural requirement the disregard of which renders such a decision void.
Infringement of the principal of legal certainty through limitation and excessive delay in adopting a decision.
Breach of the duty to state reasons: the contested decision fails to set out, even summarily, the reasons for reducing the assistance.
Authorisation of State aid pursuant to Article 61 of the EEA Agreement and Article 1(3) in Part 1 of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court Agreement
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: EFTA Surveillance Authority
Subjects: Norway, State aid, control of State aid, environmental protection, exchange of information, greenhouse gas, investment, new technology, reduction of gas emissions, storage of waste








C_2009150EN.01000801.xml










2.7.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 150/8





Authorisation of State aid pursuant to Article 61 of the EEA Agreement and Article 1(3) in Part 1 of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court Agreement
2009/C 150/10
The EFTA Surveillance Authority raises no objections to the following aid measure:
Date of adoption of the decision: 
Case number: 63992
EFTA State: Norway
Region: —
Title (and/or name of the beneficiary): Carbon capture and storage project at Kårstø, Norway. Beneficiary: Gassnova SF.
Legal basis: Articles 61(1) and 61(3)(c) of the EEA Agreement
Type of measure: Grant
Objective: Protection of the environment by means of capturing, transporting and storing CO2

Form of aid: Contribution of funds
Budget: —
Intensity: 100 % investment and operating aid
Duration: 10 years
Economic sectors: Carbon capture and storage in the context of power production
Name and address of the granting authority: 





The Norwegian State




Ministry of Government Administration and Reform




Akersgata 59




0030 Oslo




NORWAY




Other information: —
The authentic text of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found on the EFTA Surveillance Authority’s website:
http://www.eftasurv.int/fieldsofwork/fieldstateaid/stateaidregistry/
Case T-487/07: Order of the Court of First Instance of 2 July 2009 — Imperial Chemical Industries v OHIM (FACTORY FINISH)
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, General Court (EU), chemical industry, chemical product, ordinance, trade-mark law








C_2009205EN.01004702.xml










29.8.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 205/47





Order of the Court of First Instance of 2 July 2009 — Imperial Chemical Industries v OHIM (FACTORY FINISH)
(Case T-487/07) (1)

2009/C 205/87

Language of the case: English

The President of the Fifth Chamber has ordered that the case be removed from the register.


(1)  OJ C 51, 23.2.2008.
Case T-414/07 (Community trade mark — Application for a Community figurative mark representing a hand holding a card with three triangles — Absolute ground for refusal — Absence of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 2 July 2009 — Euro-Information v OHIM (Representing a hand holding a card with three triangles))
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, General Court (EU), audiovisual equipment, consultancy, provision of services, telecommunications, trade-mark law








C_2009193EN.01001902.xml










15.8.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 193/19





Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 2 July 2009 — Euro-Information v OHIM (Representing a hand holding a card with three triangles))
(Case T-414/07 (1)

(Community trade mark - Application for a Community figurative mark representing a hand holding a card with three triangles - Absolute ground for refusal - Absence of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
2009/C 193/28
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: Européenne de traitement de l’information (Euro-Information) (Strasbourg, France) (represented by: P. Greffe, M. Chaminade and L. Paudrat, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: O. Montalto and R. Bianchi, Agents)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 6 September 2007 (Case R 290/2007-1), rejecting the application for registration of a sign representing a hand holding a card with three triangles as a Community trade mark.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the action;










2.


Orders Européenne de traitement de l’information (Euro-Information) to pay the costs.






(1)  OJ C 22, 26.1.2008.
2009/519/EC: Commission Decision of 2 July 2009 amending Decision 2007/679/EC fixing the net amounts resulting from the application of voluntary modulation in the United Kingdom for the calendar years 2007 to 2012 (notified under document number C(2009) 5027)
Date: 2009-07-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United Kingdom, aid system, aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy, rural development








L_2009173EN.01001301.xml










3.7.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 173/13








            COMMISSION DECISION
         
of 2 July 2009
         
amending Decision 2007/679/EC fixing the net amounts resulting from the application of voluntary modulation in the United Kingdom for the calendar years 2007 to 2012
(notified under document number C(2009) 5027)
(Only the English text is authentic)
(2009/519/EC)


THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 378/2007 of 27 March 2007 laying down rules for voluntary modulation of direct payments provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 (1), and in particular Article 4(1) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Commission Decision 2007/679/EC (2) fixes the net amounts resulting from the application of voluntary modulation in the United Kingdom for the calendar years 2007 to 2012 on the basis of annual rates of voluntary modulation applicable at regional level and by year.












(2)


Article 1(5) of Regulation (EC) No 378/2007 provides that the rates fixed in Article 7 of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 (3), reduced by 5 percentage points, shall be deducted from the rate of voluntary modulation applied by the Member States. Consequently, the net amounts resulting from voluntary modulation should be reduced.












(3)


Decision 2007/679/EC should therefore be amended,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The Annex to Decision 2007/679/EC is hereby replaced by the Annex to this Decision.


Article 2
This Decision shall apply from the 2010 financial year.


Article 3
This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.




Done at Brussels, 2 July 2009.


For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
            

Member of the Commission






(1)  
            OJ L 95, 5.4.2007, p. 1.

(2)  
            OJ L 280, 24.10.2007, p. 25.

(3)  
            OJ L 30, 31.1.2009, p. 16.




ANNEX




                     ‘ANNEX

Net amounts resulting from the application of voluntary modulation in the United Kingdom









(EUR million)




2009


2010


2011


2012




397,0 


374,9 


347,3 


313,9 ’