do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Case C-520/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Rejonowy w Płocku (Poland) lodged on 30 September 2013  — Urszula Leśniak-Jaworska, Małgorzata Głuchowska-Szmulewicz v Prokuratura Okręgowa w Płocku
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: anti-discriminatory measure, equal treatment, remuneration of work, seniority, working conditions








C_2014253EN.01001501.xml










4.8.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 253/15





Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Rejonowy w Płocku (Poland) lodged on 30 September 2013 — Urszula Leśniak-Jaworska, Małgorzata Głuchowska-Szmulewicz v Prokuratura Okręgowa w Płocku
(Case C-520/13)
2014/C 253/19
Language of the case: Polish

Referring court

Sąd Rejonowy w Płocku

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: Urszula Leśniak-Jaworska, Małgorzata Głuchowska-Szmulewicz

Defendant: Prokuratura Okręgowa w Płocku
By order of 27 March 2014, the Court of Justice ruled that it manifestly lacked jurisdiction to answer the question referred by the Sąd Rejonowy w Płocku.
Case C-17/13: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 27 March 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Alpina River Cruises GmbH, Nicko Tours GmbH v Ministero delle infrastrutture e dei trasporti — Capitaneria di Porto di Chioggia (Maritime transport — Regulation (EEC) No 3577/92 — Concept of ‘maritime cabotage’  — Cruise services — Cruise crossing the Venetian lagoon, Italian territorial sea and the river Po — Departure from and arrival at the same port)
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Italy, freedom to provide services, maritime cabotage, river tourism








C_2014151EN.01000501.xml










19.5.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 151/5





Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 27 March 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — Alpina River Cruises GmbH, Nicko Tours GmbH v Ministero delle infrastrutture e dei trasporti — Capitaneria di Porto di Chioggia
(Case C-17/13) (1)

((Maritime transport - Regulation (EEC) No 3577/92 - Concept of ‘maritime cabotage’ - Cruise services - Cruise crossing the Venetian lagoon, Italian territorial sea and the river Po - Departure from and arrival at the same port))
2014/C 151/06
Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Consiglio di Stato

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: Alpina River Cruises GmbH, Nicko Tours GmbH

Defendant: Ministero delle infrastrutture e dei trasporti — Capitaneria di Porto di Chioggia

Re:

Request for a preliminary ruling — Consiglio di Stato — Interpretation of Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3577/92 of 7 December 1992 applying the principle of freedom to provide services to maritime transport within Member States (maritime cabotage) (OJ 1992 L 364, p. 7) — Scope — Concept of maritime cabotage — Cruise service — Departure and arrival of passengers in one and the same port after calling at other ports

Operative part of the judgment

A maritime transport service consisting of a cruise which starts and ends, with the same passengers, in the same port of the Member State in which it takes place, is covered by the term ‘maritime cabotage’ within the meaning of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3577/92 of 7 December 1992 applying the principle of freedom to provide services to maritime transport within Member States (maritime cabotage).


(1)  OJ C 86, 23.3.2013.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate








C_2014088EN.01000501.xml










27.3.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 88/5





Euro exchange rates (1)

26 March 2014
2014/C 88/02

1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,3791




JPY


Japanese yen


141,25




DKK


Danish krone


7,4651




GBP


Pound sterling


0,83360




SEK


Swedish krona


8,9032




CHF


Swiss franc


1,2216




ISK


Iceland króna


 




NOK


Norwegian krone


8,3320




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558




CZK


Czech koruna


27,459




HUF


Hungarian forint


312,27




LTL


Lithuanian litas


3,4528




PLN


Polish zloty


4,1803




RON


Romanian leu


4,4717




TRY


Turkish lira


3,0445




AUD


Australian dollar


1,4934




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,5398




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


10,6995




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,6018




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,7479




KRW


South Korean won


1 482,41




ZAR


South African rand


14,7398




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


8,5631




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,6645




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


15 736,96




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


4,5498




PHP


Philippine peso


61,857




RUB


Russian rouble


48,8965




THB


Thai baht


44,945




BRL


Brazilian real


3,1784




MXN


Mexican peso


18,0986




INR


Indian rupee


82,8850






(1)  Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Case C-145/14: Action brought on 27 March 2014  — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Bulgaria, infringement of EU law, waste disposal








C_2014159EN.01001901.xml










26.5.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 159/19





Action brought on 27 March 2014 — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria
(Case C-145/14)
2014/C 159/25
Language of the case: Bulgarian

Parties


Applicant: European Commission (represented by: S. Petrova and E. Sanfrutos Cano, acting as Agents)

Defendant: Republic of Bulgaria

Form of order sought

The European Commission claims that the Court should:






—


declare that by failing to take the measures necessary to ensure that the existing landfill sites in the country could not continue to operate after 16 July 2009 unless they complied with the requirements of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste (1), the Republic of Bulgaria has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 14 of that directive;










—


order the Republic of Bulgaria to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

In the answers to the reasoned opinion (the last answers date from 16 July 2013 and from 10 February 2014) the Bulgarian national authorities admitted that there are to date 100 landfill sites in operation in the Republic of Bulgaria which have not been adapted to the requirements of Article 14 of Directive 1999/31/EC.
The Commission therefore deems it necessary to bring an action before the Court of Justice of the European Union so that the Court declares that the Republic of Bulgaria has infringed that provision.


(1)  OJ 1999 L 182, p. 1.
Case C-300/13: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 27 March 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana — Spain) — Ayuntamiento de Benferri v Consejería de Infraestructuras y Transporte, Iberdrola Distribución Eléctrica SAU (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 85/337/EEC — Assessment of the effects of certain projects on the environment — Construction of certain overhead electrical power lines — Extension of an electrical substation — Project not made subject to an environmental assessment)
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: airline, electricity supply, environmental impact, power plant








C_2014151EN.01000702.xml










19.5.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 151/7





Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 27 March 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana — Spain) — Ayuntamiento de Benferri v Consejería de Infraestructuras y Transporte, Iberdrola Distribución Eléctrica SAU
(Case C-300/13) (1)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 85/337/EEC - Assessment of the effects of certain projects on the environment - Construction of certain overhead electrical power lines - Extension of an electrical substation - Project not made subject to an environmental assessment))
2014/C 151/09
Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Ayuntamiento de Benferri

Defendants: Consejería de Infraestructuras y Transporte, Iberdrola Distribución Eléctrica SAU

Re:

Request for a preliminary ruling — Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunidad Valenciana — Interpretation of point 20 of Annex I and section 3(b) of Annex II to Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (OJ 1985 L 175, p. 40), as amended by Directive 97/11/EC (OJ 1997 L 73, p. 5) — Construction of overhead electrical power lines with a voltage of 220 kV or more and a length of more than 15 km — Concept — Project to extend an electrical substation independently of the existing overhead power line — National legislation which does not provide for the submission of that project to an environmental assessment.

Operative part of the judgment

The provisions of point 20 of Annex I and section 3(b) of Annex II to Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC of 3 March 1997, must be interpreted as meaning that a project such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which relates only to the extension of an electrical voltage transformer substation, is not, as such, among the projects covered by those provisions, unless that extension is part of the construction of overhead electrical power lines, which it is for the national court to ascertain.


(1)  OJ C 226, 3.8.2013.
Notice of open competition
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: European Personnel Selection Office
Subjects: EPSO, administrator, competition (EU), forensic medicine, information analysis, medical computing








C_2014088EN.01000901.xml










27.3.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 88/9






NOTICE OF OPEN COMPETITION

2014/C 88/06
The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is organising open competition:
EPSO/AD/278/14 — Administrators (AD 7) in the following fields:






1.


Digital forensics










2.


Operational analysis




The competition notice is published in 24 languages in Official Journal C 88 A of 27 March 2014.
Further information can be found on the EPSO website: http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/eu-careers.info/
Case T-554/12: Judgment of the General Court of 27 March 2014  — Oracle America v OHIM — Aava Mobile (AAVA MOBILE) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community word mark AAVA MOBILE — Earlier Community word mark JAVA — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — No likelihood of association — Link between the signs — Reputation — No similarity of the signs — Article 8(5) of Regulation No 207/2009)
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, registered trade mark, software, trade-mark law








C_2014151EN.01001901.xml










19.5.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 151/19





Judgment of the General Court of 27 March 2014 — Oracle America v OHIM — Aava Mobile (AAVA MOBILE)
(Case T-554/12) (1)

((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark AAVA MOBILE - Earlier Community word mark JAVA - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - No likelihood of association - Link between the signs - Reputation - No similarity of the signs - Article 8(5) of Regulation No 207/2009))
2014/C 151/24
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: Oracle America, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware, United States) (represented by: M. Graf and T. Heydn, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented initially by F. Mattina, and subsequently by P. Bullock, Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Aava Mobile Oy (Oulu, Finland)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM (Case R 1205/2011-2) of 9 October 2012, concerning opposition proceedings between Oracle Amercia, Inc. and Aava Mobile Oy.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the action;










2.


Orders Oracle America, Inc. to pay the costs.






(1)  OJ C 63, 2.3.2013.
Case T-47/12: Judgment of the General Court of 27 March 2014  — Intesa Sanpaolo v OHIM — equinet Bank (EQUITER) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark EQUITER — Earlier Community word mark EQUINET — Relative ground for refusal — Genuine use of the earlier mark — Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Obligation to state reasons)
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, financial institution, registered trade mark, trade-mark law








C_2014151EN.01001702.xml










19.5.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 151/17





Judgment of the General Court of 27 March 2014 — Intesa Sanpaolo v OHIM — equinet Bank (EQUITER)
(Case T-47/12) (1)

((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark EQUITER - Earlier Community word mark EQUINET - Relative ground for refusal - Genuine use of the earlier mark - Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Obligation to state reasons))
2014/C 151/22
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: Intesa Sanpaolo SpA (Turin (Italy)) (represented by: P. Pozzi, G. Ghisletti and F. Braga, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Bullock, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: equinet Bank AG (Frankfurt am Main (Germany))

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 6 October 2011 (Case R 2101/2010-1), relating to opposition proceedings between equinet Bank AG and Intesa Sanpaolo SpA.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 6 October 2011 (Case R 2101/2010-1);










2.


Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Intesa Sanpaolo SpA.






(1)  OJ C 109, 14.4.12.
New national side of euro coins intended for circulation
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Portugal, commemoration, euro, issuing of currency








C_2014088EN.01000801.xml










27.3.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 88/8





New national side of euro coins intended for circulation
2014/C 88/05




National side of the new commemorative 2-euro coin intended for circulation and issued by Portugal

Euro coins intended for circulation have legal tender status throughout the euro area. For the purpose of informing the public and all parties who handle the coins, the Commission publishes a description of the designs of all new coins (1). In accordance with the Council conclusions of 10 February 2009 (2), euro-area Member States and countries that have concluded a monetary agreement with the European Union providing for the issuing of euro coins are allowed to issue commemorative euro coins intended for circulation, provided that certain conditions are met, particularly that only the 2-euro denomination is used. These coins have the same technical characteristics as other 2-euro coins, but their national face features a commemorative design that is highly symbolic in national or European terms.
Issuing country: Portugal
Subject of commemoration: The International Year of Family Farming
Description of the design: On the central part of the design are represented tools typically used in the traditional agriculture, together with farming products: a chicken in the center, surrounded by pumpkins, a basket of potatoes, and other vegetables and flowers. On the left side, in semi-circle, the subject of the commemoration ‘AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR’ (Family Farming) and on the right side, in semi-circle, the name of the issuing country ‘PORTUGAL’ followed by the year of issuance ‘2014’. At the bottom left the mintmark ‘INCM’.
The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.
Number of coins to be issued: 
Date of issue: October 2014


(1)  See OJ C 373, 28.12.2001, p. 1, for the national faces of all the coins issued in 2002.

(2)  See the conclusions of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 10 February 2009 and the Commission Recommendation of 19 December 2008 on common guidelines for the national sides and the issuance of euro coins intended for circulation (OJ L 9, 14.1.2009, p. 52).
Corrigendum to Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU — Cases where the Commission raises no objections ( OJ C 50, 21.2.2014 )
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Latvia, State aid, aid to undertakings, control of State aid, environmental protection








C_2014088EN.01003001.xml










27.3.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 88/30





Corrigendum to Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
(
Official Journal of the European Union C 50 of 21 February 2014
)
2014/C 88/19
On page 12, the text referring to the State Aid No SA.37391 is cancelled and replaced by the following:


‘Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU
Cases where the Commission raises no objections
(Text with EEA relevance, except for products falling under Annex I of the Treaty)







Date of adoption of the decision


18.11.2013




Aid number


SA.37391 (2013/N)




Member State


Latvia




Region


—


—




Title (and/or name of the beneficiary)


Prolongation of RDP measure ‘Natura 2000 payments (to forest owners)’




Legal basis


Ministru kabineta noteikumu projekts “Noteikumi par valsts un Eiropas Savienības lauku attīstības atbalsta piešķiršanu, administrēšanu un uzraudzību vides un lauku ainavas uzlabošanai”




Type of measure


Scheme


—




Objective


Payments Natura 2000 and payments linked to the Directive 2000/60/EC




Form of aid


Direct grant




Budget


—




Intensity


0 %




Duration (period)


1.1.2014-31.12.2014




Economic sectors


AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING




Name and address of the granting authority







Lauku atbalsta dienests




Republikas laukums 2 LV-1981








Other information


—




The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:
http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm’
Case T-205/14: Action brought on 27 March 2014  — Schroeder v Council and Commission
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: anti-dumping duty, credit, customs regulations, indemnification, money-market liquidity, payment








C_2014212EN.01003301.xml










7.7.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 212/33





Action brought on 27 March 2014 — Schroeder v Council and Commission
(Case T-205/14)
2014/C 212/42
Language of the case: German

Parties


Applicant: I. Schroeder KG (GmbH & Co.) (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by: K. Landry, lawyer)

Defendants: Council of the European Union and European Commission

Form of order sought







—


Order the defendants to pay compensation to the applicant in the amount of EUR 3 45  644 together with interest at the rate of 8 % per annum from the date of delivery of the judgment, or to declare that the applicant is entitled to compensation from the defendants;










—


Order the defendants to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

The applicant seeks compensation on account of the adoption of Regulation (EC) No 1355/2008, (1) which was declared invalid by judgment of the Court of Justice of 22 March 2012 in Case C-338/10 GLS.
The applicant submits that although the anti-dumping duties wrongly collected on the basis of that regulation have been refunded by the national customs authorities, it suffered financial loss as a result of the fact that it was compelled by the withdrawal of liquidity to obtain additional bank loans at the usual market rates of interest. The applicant therefore seeks reimbursement of the difference between the interest it paid on its bank loans and the lower amount of interest that it would have had to pay if no anti-dumping duties had been collected. The applicant submits in that regard that, by unlawfully adopting Regulation No 1355/2008, the defendants committed a sufficiently serious breach of their duty of due care and proper administration, resulting in a loss to the applicant for which compensation is not otherwise available, since there is no provision under the relevant national rules on import duties for interest to be paid on the amount of any difference in favour of the person liable to pay import duties, from the time of payment.


(1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1355/2008 of 18 December 2008 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty and collecting definitively the provisional duty imposed on imports of certain prepared or preserved citrus fruits (namely mandarins, etc.) originating in the People’s Republic of China (OJ 2008 L 350, p. 35).
Case C-530/12 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 27 March 2014  — Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) v National Lottery Commission (Appeals — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 52(2)(c) — Application for a declaration of invalidity based on an earlier copyright under national law — Application by OHIM of national law — Role of the European Union judicature)
Date: 2014-03-27
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU trade mark, copyright, national law, proof, registered trade mark, trade-mark law








C_2014151EN.01000301.xml










19.5.2014   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 151/3





Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 27 March 2014 — Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) v National Lottery Commission
(Case C-530/12 P) (1)

((Appeals - Community trade mark - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 52(2)(c) - Application for a declaration of invalidity based on an earlier copyright under national law - Application by OHIM of national law - Role of the European Union judicature))
2014/C 151/03
Language of the case: English

Parties


Appellant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Bullock and F. Mattina, Agents)

Other party to the proceedings: National Lottery Commission (represented by: R. Cardas, Advocate, and B. Brandreth, Barrister)

Re:

Appeal against the judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 September 2012 in Case T-404/10 National Lottery Commission v OHIM, by which the General Court dismissed Decision R 1028/2009-1 of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) of 9 June 2010, dismissing the appeal against the decision of the Cancellation Division which upheld the application for a declaration of invalidity lodged by Mediatek Italia and Giuseppe De Grégorio — Community figurative mark representing a hand with two crossed fingers and a smiling face — Article 53(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Existence of an earlier copyright protected by national law — Burden of proof — Application by OHIM of national law.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Sets aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 13 September 2012 in Case T-404/10 National Lottery Commission v OHIM — Mediatek Italia and De Gregorio (Representation of a hand);










2.


Refers the case back to the General Court of the European Union for a ruling on the merits of the action;










3.


Orders that the costs be reserved.






(1)  OJ C 26, 26.1.2013.