do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Case T-1045/23: Order of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – France v Commission (Civil service – Recruitment – Notice of competition – Open competition EPSO/AD/403/23 – Rules on language – Discrimination based on language – Restriction of the choice of Language 2 to English – Amending notice – Possibility of sitting the tests in any of the 24 official languages of the European Union – No need to adjudicate)
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: administrator, competition (EU), crisis management, language skills, linguistic discrimination, migration, official language, public safety








C_202406437EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/6437


4.11.2024






Order of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – France v Commission


(Case T-1045/23)
                (1)

(Civil service - Recruitment - Notice of competition - Open competition EPSO/AD/403/23 - Rules on language - Discrimination based on language - Restriction of the choice of Language 2 to English - Amending notice - Possibility of sitting the tests in any of the 24 official languages of the European Union - No need to adjudicate)
(C/2024/6437)
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: French Republic (represented by: B. Fodda, B. Travard, S. Royon and H. Nunes da Silva, acting as Agents)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Niddam and L. Vernier, acting as Agents)

Interveners in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: C. Pochet, M. Van Regemorter and S. Baeyens, acting as Agents) and Italian Republic (represented by: G. Palmieri, acting as Agent, and P. Gentili, avvocato dello Stato)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the French Republic seeks the annulment of Notice of open competition EPSO/AD/403/23, entitled ‘Administrators (AD 7) in the following fields: 1. Crisis management; 2. Migration and internal security’ (OJ 2023 C 264 A, p. 1).

Operative part of the order







1.


There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the action.










2.


The French Republic and the European Commission shall each bear their own costs.










3.


The Kingdom of Belgium and the Italian Republic shall each bear their own costs.






(1)  OJ C C/2023/1312 of 11.12.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6437/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case T-481/24: Action brought on 18 September 2024 – Savencia v EUIPO – Hofmeister (Shape of a cheese)
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, animal fats, registered trade mark, trade-mark law, vegetable fats








C_202406447EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/6447


4.11.2024






Action brought on 18 September 2024 – Savencia v EUIPO – Hofmeister (Shape of a cheese)


(Case T-481/24)

(C/2024/6447)
Language in which the application was lodged: German

Parties


Applicant: Savencia SA (Viroflay, France) (represented by: G. Brox, F. Hagemann and A. Berger, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Hofmeister Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH & Co. KG (Lauben, Germany)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO


Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal

Trade mark at issue: International registration designating the three-dimensional EU trade mark (Shape of a cheese) – International registration designating the European Union No 1 424 666
         

Proceedings before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 8 July 2024 in Cases R 1920/2022-5 and R 1941/2022-5

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






—


annul the contested decision or amend it as follows :
dismiss appeal R 1920/2022-5;
in addition, dismiss appeal R 1941/2022-5 and the cross-appeal under file number R 1920/2022-5 of the international registration No 1 424 666 in the European Union in relation to protection for the goods ‘edible oils and fats’;










—


order EUIPO to pay the costs;










—


order the intervener to pay the costs of the proceedings before EUIPO.





Pleas in law







—


Infringement of Article 71 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;










—


Infringement of the second sentence of Article 94(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;










—


Infringement of Articles 95 and 97 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;










—


Infringement of the first sentence of Article 27(2) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625;










—


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






ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6447/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case T-1120/23: Order of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – UIC v Commission (Action for annulment – Trans-European networks – Regulation (EU) 2021/694 – Call for proposals – Legal entities established in the European Union but controlled from third countries – Exclusion from the call for proposals procedure – Request for review – No new facts – Purely confirmatory measure – Inadmissibility)
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: call for proposals, establishment, legal person, public procurement, third country, trans-European network








C_202406438EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/6438


4.11.2024






Order of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – UIC v Commission


(Case T-1120/23)
                (1)

(Action for annulment - Trans-European networks - Regulation (EU) 2021/694 - Call for proposals - Legal entities established in the European Union but controlled from third countries - Exclusion from the call for proposals procedure - Request for review - No new facts - Purely confirmatory measure - Inadmissibility)
(C/2024/6438)
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: International Union of Railways (UIC) (Paris, France) (represented by: M. Roquette-Pfister, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: O. Gariazzo, T. Isacu de Groot, U. Małecka and E. Stamate, acting as Agents)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision allegedly contained in a letter from the Commission dated 12 September 2023, by which the Commission excluded the applicant from the call for proposals procedure DIGITAL-ECCC-2022-CYBER-03.

Operative part of the order







1.


The action is dismissed as inadmissible.










2.


The International Union of Railways (UIC) shall pay the costs.






(1)  
            OJ C C/2024/769, 22.1.2024.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6438/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union – Cases where the Commission raises no objections – SA.114884
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission
Subjects: Germany, State aid, animal production, control of State aid, crop production, hunting, service








C_202405564EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/5564


18.9.2024






Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Cases where the Commission raises no objections
SA.114884
(C/2024/5564)








Date of adoption of the decision


19.7.2024




Aid number


SA.114884




Member State


Germany




Region


 




Title (title and/or name of the beneficiary)


Bund: Richtlinie zur Förderung von Modell- und Demonstrationsvorhaben sowie von weiteren Maßnahmen zum Wissens- und Technologietransfer aus Forschung- und Entwicklungsvorhaben im Bereich nachhaltiger Pflanzenproduktion




Legal basis


Richtlinie des BMEL zur Förderung von Modell- und Demonstrationsvorhaben sowie von weiteren Maßnahmen zum Wissens- und Technologietransfer aus Forschung- und Entwicklungsvorhaben (FuE-Vorhaben) im Bereich nachhaltiger Pflanzenproduktion vom 28. August 2019, geändert am 2. Juli 2021.




Type of measure


Scheme


 




Objective


Aid for knowledge transfer and information actions in the agricultural sector




Form of aid


Direct grant, Subsidised services




Budget


Overall budget: 210 000 000  EUR
Annual budget: 35 000 000  EUR




Intensity


100,0 %




Duration


28.8.2019 - 31.12.2026




Economic sectors


Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities




Name and address of the granting authority







Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (Federal Office for Agriculture and Food)




Deichmanns Aue 29, 53179 Bonn








Other information


 




The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/search?caseInstrument=SA



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/5564/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case T-334/19: Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google AdSense for Search) (Competition – Abuse of dominant position – Market for online search advertising intermediation in the EEA – Decision finding an infringement of Article 102 TFEU and of Article 54 of the EEA Agreement – Exclusive supply obligation – Contractual restrictions)
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: advertising, control of restrictive practices, dominant position, restrictive trade practice, sanction (EU), search engine, trade intermediary








C_202406420EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/6420


4.11.2024






Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google AdSense for Search)


(Case T-334/19)
                (1)

(Competition - Abuse of dominant position - Market for online search advertising intermediation in the EEA - Decision finding an infringement of Article 102 TFEU and of Article 54 of the EEA Agreement - Exclusive supply obligation - Contractual restrictions)
(C/2024/6420)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicants: Google LLC (Mountain View, California, United States), Alphabet Inc. (Mountain View) (represented by: C. Jeffs, lawyer, J. Holmes, KC, and J. Williams, Barrister)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: N. Khan, A. Dawes, T. Franchoo and C. Urraca Caviedes, acting as Agents)

Interveners in support of the applicants: Surfboard Holding BV (Zeist, Netherlands) (represented by: E. Batchelor, Solicitor, and G. de Vasconcelos Lopes, lawyer), Vinden.NL BV (Rijseen Netherlands) (represented by: B. Nijhof and N. Strous, avocats)

Re:

By their action based on Article 263 TFEU, the applicants seek, primarily, annulment of Commission Decision C(2019) 2173 final of 20 March 2019 relating to a proceeding under Article 102 TFEU and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT.40411 – Google Search (AdSense)), or, in the alternative, annulment or reduction of the amount of the fine imposed in that decision.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1)


Annuls Commission Decision C(2019) 2173 final of 20 March 2019 relating to a proceeding under Article 102 TFEU and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT.40411 – Google Search (AdSense));










2)


Orders the European Commission to pay the costs of Google LLC and of Alphabet Inc.;










3)


Orders Surfboard Holding BV and Vinden.NL BV to bear their own costs.






(1)  
            OJ C 255, 29.7.2019.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6420/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case T-572/23: Order of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – France v Commission (Civil service – Recruitment – Notice of competition – Open competition EPSO/AD/402/23 – Rules on language – Discrimination based on language – Restriction of the choice of Language 2 to English – Amending notice – Possibility of sitting the tests in any of the 24 official languages of the European Union – No need to adjudicate)
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: administrator, competition (EU), economics profession, industrial economy, language skills, linguistic discrimination, macroeconomics, microeconomics, official language








C_202406436EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/6436


4.11.2024






Order of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – France v Commission


(Case T-572/23)
                (1)

(Civil service - Recruitment - Notice of competition - Open competition EPSO/AD/402/23 - Rules on language - Discrimination based on language - Restriction of the choice of Language 2 to English - Amending notice - Possibility of sitting the tests in any of the 24 official languages of the European Union - No need to adjudicate)
(C/2024/6436)
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: French Republic (represented by: T. Stéhelin, B. Fodda, S. Royon and B. Travard, acting as Agents)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Niddam, acting as Agent)

Interveners in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: C. Pochet, M. Van Regemorter and S. Baeyens, acting as Agents), Italian Republic (represented by: G. Palmieri, acting as Agent), and Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (represented by: A. Germeaux and T. Schell, acting as Agents)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the French Republic seeks the annulment of Notice of open competition EPSO/AD/402/23, entitled ‘Administrators (AD 6) in the following fields: 1. Microeconomics/macroeconomics, 2. Financial economics, 3. Industrial economics’ (OJ 2023 C 220 A, p. 1).

Operative part of the order







1.


There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the action.










2.


The French Republic and the European Commission shall each bear their own costs.










3.


The Kingdom of Belgium, the Italian Republic and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg shall each bear their own costs.






(1)  OJ C C/2023/353 of 30.10.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6436/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case T-1099/23: Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – Rodríguez Ruiz v EUIPO – Scherer (LEMOON) (EU trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the EU word mark LEMOON – Earlier national word mark LENNON – Relative ground for refusal – No likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, alcoholic beverage, non-alcoholic beverage, registered trade mark, trade-mark law








C_202406434EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/6434


4.11.2024






Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – Rodríguez Ruiz v EUIPO – Scherer (LEMOON)


(Case T-1099/23)
                (1)

(EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark LEMOON - Earlier national word mark LENNON - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
(C/2024/6434)
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Ruiz (Albelda de Iregua, Spain) (represented by: J. Pérez Itarte, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: V. Ruzek, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Markus Scherer (Mannheim, Germany) (represented by: P. Greffe, lawyer)

Re:

By his action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 31 July 2023 (Case R 352/2023-5).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the action;










2.


Orders Mr Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Ruiz to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by Mr Markus Scherer;










3.


Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear its own costs.






(1)  
            OJ C C/2024/964, 29.1.2024.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6434/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case T-617/22: Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – Safran Aircraft Engines v Commission (Award of grants in the field of defence – EDF – Funding of development actions – Call for proposals EDF-2021-ENERENV-D-PES: Alternative propulsion and energy systems for next generation air combat systems – Rejection of the applicant’s proposal – Obligation to state reasons – Principle of sound administration – Equal treatment – Legal certainty – Transparency – Manifest error of assessment)
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU aid, European Development Fund, European defence policy, administrative transparency, call for proposals, defence expenditure, equal treatment, financial aid, principle of legal certainty, transparency in decision-making








C_202406430EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/6430


4.11.2024






Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – Safran Aircraft Engines v Commission


(Case T-617/22)
                (1)

(Award of grants in the field of defence - EDF - Funding of development actions - Call for proposals ‘EDF-2021-ENERENV-D-PES: Alternative propulsion and energy systems for next generation air combat systems’ - Rejection of the applicant’s proposal - Obligation to state reasons - Principle of sound administration - Equal treatment - Legal certainty - Transparency - Manifest error of assessment)
(C/2024/6430)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines (Paris, France) (represented by: B. Hoorelbeke, F. Donnat and M. Perche, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: R. Tricot, T. Isacu de Groot and E. Stamate, acting as Agents)

Re:

By its action based on Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the European Commission of 20 July 2022 rejecting the grant proposal for Project No 101074962 – ALPES, which it submitted in the context of the call for proposals ‘EDF-2021-ENERENV-D-PES: Alternative propulsion and energy systems for next generation air combat systems’ of the European Defence Fund (EDF).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the action;










2.


Orders Safran Aircraft Engines to pay the costs.






(1)  
            OJ C 7, 9.1.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6430/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Special report 16/2024: EU revenue based on non recycled plastic packaging waste – A challenging start hindered by data that is not sufficiently comparable or reliable
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: European Court of Auditors
Subjects: EU Member State, non-recoverable waste, own resources, packaging, plastic waste, plastics, waste recycling








C_202405583EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/5583


18.9.2024






Special report 16/2024:

            ‘EU revenue based on non recycled plastic packaging waste – A challenging start hindered by data that is not sufficiently comparable or reliable’
         
(C/2024/5583)

The European Court of Auditors has published its special report 16/2024: ‘EU revenue based on non recycled plastic packaging waste – A challenging start hindered by data that is not sufficiently comparable or reliable’.
The report can be consulted directly or downloaded at the European Court of Auditors’ website: https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/publications/sr-2024-16



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/5583/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case T-497/23: Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – Fidia farmaceutici v EUIPO – Vorwarts Pharma (HYALERA) (EU trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the EU word mark HYALERA – Earlier national word mark HYAL – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, dietary product, food supplement, pharmaceutical product, registered trade mark, trade-mark law








C_202406433EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/6433


4.11.2024






Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2024 – Fidia farmaceutici v EUIPO – Vorwarts Pharma (HYALERA)


(Case T-497/23)
                (1)

(EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark HYALERA - Earlier national word mark HYAL - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
(C/2024/6433)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: Fidia farmaceutici SpA (Abano Terme, Italy) (represented by: R. Kunz-Hallstein, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: E. Śliwińska and D. Hanf, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Vorwarts Pharma sp. z o.o. (Białystok, Poland) (represented by: J. Aftyka, lawyer)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 17 May 2023 (Case R 230/2023-5).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Annuls the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 17 May 2023 (Case R 230/2023-5);










2.


Orders EUIPO and Vorwarts Pharma sp. z o.o. to pay the costs.






(1)  
            OJ C 338, 25.9.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6433/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Euro exchange rates – 17 September 2024
Date: 2024-09-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate, money








C_202405026EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2024/5026


18.9.2024






Euro exchange rates (1)


            17 September 2024
         
(C/2024/5026)


1 euro =











 


Currency


Exchange rate




USD


US dollar


1,1139 




JPY


Japanese yen


156,71 




DKK


Danish krone


7,4621 




GBP


Pound sterling


0,84278 




SEK


Swedish krona


11,3245 




CHF


Swiss franc


0,9405 




ISK


Iceland króna


152,30 




NOK


Norwegian krone


11,7885 




BGN


Bulgarian lev


1,9558 




CZK


Czech koruna


25,125 




HUF


Hungarian forint


394,68 




PLN


Polish zloty


4,2683 




RON


Romanian leu


4,9738 




TRY


Turkish lira


37,9137 




AUD


Australian dollar


1,6472 




CAD


Canadian dollar


1,5134 




HKD


Hong Kong dollar


8,6796 




NZD


New Zealand dollar


1,7965 




SGD


Singapore dollar


1,4407 




KRW


South Korean won


1 467,66 




ZAR


South African rand


19,6418 




CNY


Chinese yuan renminbi


7,9046 




IDR


Indonesian rupiah


17 082,55 




MYR


Malaysian ringgit


4,7441 




PHP


Philippine peso


61,966 




RUB


Russian rouble


 




THB


Thai baht


37,104 




BRL


Brazilian real


6,1236 




MXN


Mexican peso


21,5290 




INR


Indian rupee


93,3050 






(1)  
            Source: reference exchange rate published by the ECB.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/5026/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)