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Case C-217/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Εfeteio Athinon (Greece) lodged on 18 April 2016 — European Commission v Dimos Zagoriou
Date: 2016-04-18
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU act, European Commission, administrative procedure, autonomous community, civil proceedings, debt, enforcement of ruling, jurisdiction, sanction (EU)








C_2016222EN.01000701.xml










20.6.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 222/7






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Εfeteio Athinon (Greece) lodged on 18 April 2016 — European Commission v Dimos Zagoriou
(Case C-217/16)
(2016/C 222/09)
Language of the case: Greek

Referring court

Εfeteio Athinon (Greece)

Parties to the main proceedings


Appellant: European Commission

Respondent: Dimos Zagoriou

Questions referred







1.


What is the nature of the acts of the European Commission when it exercises its powers pursuant to Regulations No 2052/88, (1) No 4253/88 (2) and No 4256/88 (3) and, more specifically, are those acts of the Commission acts of public law and do they give rise to administrative disputes as to the substance in any event, in particular where the subject matter of the attachment by the European Commission of assets held by a third party is a private debt, whereas the initial debt for whose satisfaction enforcement is proceeded with derives from a legal relationship governed by public law which has arisen from the foregoing acts of the European Commission, or are they acts of private law and do they give rise to private disputes?










2.


Having regard to the fact that, under Article 299 TFEU, enforcement of acts of the European Commission which impose a pecuniary obligation on persons other than Member States is to be governed by the rules of civil procedure in force in the State in the territory of which enforcement is proceeded with and that, under that article, the courts of the country concerned are to have jurisdiction over complaints that enforcement is being carried out in an irregular manner, how is the jurisdiction of the national courts over disputes which arise from such enforcement determined, when under national law those disputes are administrative disputes as to the substance, that is to say, when the underlying relationship is one of public law?










3.


In the case of enforcement of acts of the European Commission which are adopted pursuant to Regulations No 2052/88, No 4253/88 and No 4256/88 and impose a pecuniary obligation on a person other than Member States, is the capacity to be made a defendant that is possessed by the person liable assessed on the basis of national law or of Community law?










4.


When the person liable to discharge a pecuniary obligation stemming from an act of the European Commission adopted pursuant to Regulations No 2052/88, No 4253/88 and No 4258/88 is a community undertaking, which subsequently was wound up, does the community which owns that undertaking owe an obligation to discharge that pecuniary obligation to the European Commission under the foregoing regulations?






(1)  OJ 1988 L 185, p. 9.

(2)  OJ 1988 L 374, p. 1.

(3)  OJ 1988 L 374, p. 25.
Case T-164/16: Action brought on 18 April 2016 — Piper Verlag v EUIPO (THE TRAVEL EPISODES)
Date: 2016-04-18
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, advertising, data processing, mass media, registered trade mark, trade-mark law, translation








C_2016200EN.01003101.xml










6.6.2016   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 200/31





Action brought on 18 April 2016 — Piper Verlag v EUIPO (THE TRAVEL EPISODES)
(Case T-164/16)
(2016/C 200/44)
Language in which the application was lodged: German

Parties


Applicant: Piper Verlag GmbH (Munich, Germany) (represented by: F. Oster, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO


Trade mark at issue: EU figurative mark including the word elements ‘THE TRAVEL EPISODES’ — Application No 13 687 371

Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 15 February 2016 in Case R 1099/2015-4

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






—


alter the contested decision in such a way that registration of the word/figurative mark ‘THE TRAVEL EPISODES’ as an EU trade mark at the European Union Intellectual Property Office is ordered.





Plea in law







—


Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation No 207/2009.