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Case T-47/19: Action brought on 23 January 2019 — Dansk Erhverv v Commission
Date: 2019-01-23
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: Germany, State aid, beverage, control of State aid, deposit on a polluting product, packaging product, polluter pays principle








C_2019103EN.01005301.xml










18.3.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 103/53






Action brought on 23 January 2019 — Dansk Erhverv v Commission
(Case T-47/19)
(2019/C 103/69)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: Dansk Erhverv (Copenhagen, Denmark) (represented by: T. Mygind, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission

Form of order sought

The applicants claim that the Court should:






—


annul Commission decision C(2018) 6315 final of 4 October 2018 concerning State aid SA.44865 (2016/FC) — Germany — Alleged State aid to German beverage border shops;










—


order the Commission to pay the costs.





Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of the action, the applicant relies on one plea in law, alleging that the Commission violated the applicant’s procedural rights as an interested party pursuant to Article 108(2) TFEU and Articles 4(4), 12(1) and 24(1) of the Procedural Regulation, (1) by failing to open the formal investigation procedure provided for in Article 108(2) TFEU despite the serious difficulties arising in the assessment of the state aid issues addressed in the complaint related to the administrative ‘export declaration’ practice and in particular to the relief of the obligation for the Border Shops to charge a deposit and thereby pay the deposit VAT, as well as a relief of fines for violations of the deposit charging obligations under the German canned beverages deposit scheme. The Commission therefore committed errors of law and manifest errors of assessment of the facts, first, as concerns the compatibility of the ‘export declaration’ practice with Germany’s obligations pursuant to Article 4(3) TFEU, the Packaging Directive (2) and the polluter-pays principle, and with the deposit charging requirements pursuant to the applicable German Packaging Ordonnance. Secondly, the Commission erred with respect to the State aid effects of the VAT revenue foregone by Germany as a result of the ‘export declaration’ practice.


(1)  Council Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 of 13 July 2015 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, OJ L 248, 24.9.2015, p. 9.

(2)  Directive (EU) 2018/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 amending Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste, OJ L 150, 14.6.2018, p. 141.
Euro exchange rates
Date: 2019-01-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate, money








C_2019028EN.01000201.xml










23.1.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 28/2






Euro exchange rates (1)

22 January 2019
(2019/C 28/02)

1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,1354 




JPY


Japanese yen


124,25 




DKK


Danish krone


7,4669 




GBP


Pound sterling


0,88000 




SEK


Swedish krona


10,2538 




CHF


Swiss franc


1,1326 




ISK


Iceland króna


137,00 




NOK


Norwegian krone


9,7628 




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558 




CZK


Czech koruna


25,612 




HUF


Hungarian forint


317,98 




PLN


Polish zloty


4,2827 




RON


Romanian leu


4,7292 




TRY


Turkish lira


6,0750 




AUD


Australian dollar


1,5923 




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,5128 




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


8,9090 




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,6885 




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,5452 




KRW


South Korean won


1 284,77 




ZAR


South African rand


15,7715 




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


7,7299 




HRK


Croatian kuna


7,4265 




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


16 160,15 




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


4,6962 




PHP


Philippine peso


60,056 




RUB


Russian rouble


75,4433 




THB


Thai baht


36,128 




BRL


Brazilian real


4,2622 




MXN


Mexican peso


21,7800 




INR


Indian rupee


81,0460 






(1)  Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.
Case T-42/19: Action brought on 23 January 2019 — Volkswagen v EUIPO (CROSS)
Date: 2019-01-23
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, building industry, maintenance, provision of services, registered trade mark, retail trade, toy industry, trade-mark law, vehicle, wholesale trade








C_2019082EN.01006902.xml










4.3.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 82/69






Action brought on 23 January 2019 — Volkswagen v EUIPO (CROSS)
(Case T-42/19)
(2019/C 82/81)
Language of the case: German

Parties


Applicant: Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany) (represented by: F. Thiering and L. Steidle, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO


Trade mark at issue: Application for EU word mark CROSS — Application No 16 366 528

Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 November 2018 in Case R 2500/2017-1

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






—


annul the contested decision, in so far as it dismissed the applicant’s complaint, and allow registration of EU trade mark application No 163 66 528 for all of the goods and services;










—


alternatively, annul the contested decision, in so far as it dismissed the applicant’s complaint, and refer the case back to the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO;










—


order EUIPO to pay the costs.





Pleas in law







—


Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;










—


Infringement of Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;










—


Infringement of the principle of equal treatment and breach of the obligation to state reasons.
Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.9148 — Univar/Nexeo) (Text with EEA relevance.)
Date: 2019-01-23
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: chemical product, distributor, economic concentration, merger control, plastics








C_2019039EN.01001201.xml










1.2.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 39/12






Non-opposition to a notified concentration
(Case M.9148 — Univar/Nexeo)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2019/C 39/06)
On 23 January 2019, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to declare it compatible with the internal market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1). 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/homepage.html?locale=en) under document number 32019M9148. EUR-Lex is the online access to European law.






(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 and (EU) No 1307/2013 as regards certain rules on direct payments and support for rural development in respect of the years 2019 and 2020’ (COM(2018) 817 final — 2018/0414(COD))
Date: 2019-01-23
Institutions: European Economic and Social Committee, Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment
Subjects: EAFRD, EU Member State, EU direct payments, aid to agriculture, rural development








C_2019159EN.01007101.xml










10.5.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 159/71






Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 and (EU) No 1307/2013 as regards certain rules on direct payments and support for rural development in respect of the years 2019 and 2020’

(COM(2018) 817 final — 2018/0414(COD))

(2019/C 159/12)






Referral


European Parliament, 13.12.2018
Council of the European Union, 14.12.2018




Legal basis


Articles 43(2) and 304 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union




Section responsible


Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment




Adopted at plenary session


23.1.2019




Plenary session No


540 




Outcome of vote
(for/against/abstentions)


175/1/5




Since the Committee unreservedly endorses the content of the proposal and feels that it requires no comment on its part, it decided, at its 540th plenary session of 23 and 24 January 2019 (meeting of 23 January), by 175 votes to 1 with 5 abstentions, to issue an opinion endorsing the proposed text.

Brussels, 23 January 2019.


The president


of the European Economic and Social Committee

Luca JAHIER
Case C-419/17 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 23 January 2019 — Deza, a.s. v European Chemicals Agency, Kingdom of Denmark, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Norway (Appeal — Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH Regulation) — Annex XIV — Establishment of a list of substances subject to authorisation — Inclusion in the list of substances identified for eventual inclusion in Annex XIV — Updating of the entry of the substance bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) in the list — Misinterpretation and misapplication of the REACH Regulation and of the principle of legal certainty — Distortion of the facts and evidence — Scope of the review)
Date: 2019-01-23
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: chemicals legislation, dangerous substance, judicial review, market approval, principle of legal certainty, proof








C_2019093EN.01001202.xml










11.3.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 93/12






Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 23 January 2019 — Deza, a.s. v European Chemicals Agency, Kingdom of Denmark, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Norway
(Case C-419/17 P) (1)

((Appeal - Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH Regulation) - Annex XIV - Establishment of a list of substances subject to authorisation - Inclusion in the list of substances identified for eventual inclusion in Annex XIV - Updating of the entry of the substance bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) in the list - Misinterpretation and misapplication of the REACH Regulation and of the principle of legal certainty - Distortion of the facts and evidence - Scope of the review))
(2019/C 93/15)
Language of the case: Czech

Parties


Appellant: Deza, a.s. (represented by: P.Dejl, advokát)

Other parties to the proceedings: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) (represented by: W. Broere, N. Herbatschek and M. Heikkilä, acting as Agents, and by M. Procházka and M. Mašková, advokáti), Kingdom of Denmark (represented by: J. Nymann-Lindegren and M. Wolff, acting as Agents), Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kingdom of Sweden (represented by: A. Falk, C. Meyer-Seitz, H. Shev and L. Zettergren, acting as Agents), Kingdom of Norway

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the appeal;










2.


Orders Deza, a.s. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA);










3.


Orders the Kingdom of Denmark and the Kingdom of Sweden to bear their own costs.






(1)  OJ C 293, 4.9.2017.
Case T-44/19: Action brought on 23 January 2019 — Globalia Corporación Empresarial v EUIPO — Touring Club Italiano (TC Touring Club)
Date: 2019-01-23
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, registered trade mark, trade-mark law, travel agency








C_2019093EN.01007701.xml










11.3.2019   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 93/77






Action brought on 23 January 2019 — Globalia Corporación Empresarial v EUIPO — Touring Club Italiano (TC Touring Club)
(Case T-44/19)
(2019/C 93/99)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: Globalia Corporación Empresarial, SA (Llucmajor, Spain) (represented by: A. Gómez López, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Touring Club Italiano (Milan, Italy)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO


Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court

Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union figurative mark TC Touring Club in colours red and light grey — Application for registration No 15 299 001

Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 9 November 2018 in Case R 448/2018-4

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






—


annul the contested decision due to infringement of Article 95(1) and (2) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council, constituting a substantial procedural error; and/or










—


set aside the contested decision due to erroneous application of Article 47(2) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and enter a finding to the effect that proof of ‘genuine’ use of the earlier trade mark is insufficient or inconclusive; and/or










—


set aside the contested decision due to erroneous application of Article 8(1)(b) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and enter a finding to the effect that there does not exists likelihood of confusion between the confronted trade marks;










—


order the defendant and the intervener, if he enters an appearance in proceedings, to pay the costs.





Pleas in law







—


Infringement of Article 95(1) and (2) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;










—


Infringement of Article 47(2) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;










—


Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.