CELEX: C2001/095/15
Language: en
Date: 2001-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 29 November 2000 in Case T-213/97: Committee of the Cotton and Allied Textile Industries of the European Union (Eurocoton) and Others v Council of the European Union (Dumping — Failure by the Council to adopt definitive duties — Action for annulment — Actionable measure — Action for damages)

24.3.2001              EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                           C 95/9
    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                              1.     Dismisses the application.
                                                                         2.     Orders the applicants to pay all the costs and the United
                                                                                Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear its own
                     of 29 November 2000                                        costs.
                                                                         (1) OJ C 318 of 18.10.97.
in Case T-213/97: Committee of the Cotton and Allied
Textile Industries of the European Union (Eurocoton) and
         Others v Council of the European Union (1)
(Dumping — Failure by the Council to adopt definitive
duties — Action for annulment — Actionable measure —
                      Action for damages)                                    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                                                                                                of 8 November 2000
                         (2001/C 95/15)
                                                                         in Case T-158/98: Bernard Beyt and Others v Commission
                                                                                        of the European Communities (1)
                                                                         (Officials — Temporary agents — Posting in a third country
                   (Language of the case: English)                       — Remuneration — Fixing of a weighting specific to Naka
                                                                           (Japan) — Retroactive effect — Recovery of overpayment)
In Case T-213/97: Committee of the Cotton and Allied Textile                                        (2001/C 95/16)
Industries of the European Union (Eurocoton), established in
Brussels, Belgium, Ettlin Gesellschaft für Spinnerei und Webe-
rei AG, established in Ettlingen, Germany, Textil Hof Weberei                                (Language of the case: French)
GmbH & Co. KG, established in Hof, Germany, H. Hecking
Söhne GmbH & Co., established in Stadtlohn, Germany,
Spinnweberei Uhingen GmbH, established in Uhingen, Germ-                 In Case T-158/98: Bernard Bareyt, Ivone Benfatto, Denis
any, F.A. Kümpers GmbH & Co., established in Rheine,                     Bessette, Giuliano Dalle Carbonare, Enrico Di Pietro, Barry
Germany, Tenthorey SA, established in Éloyes, France, Les               John Green, Remmelt Haange, Michel Huguet, Marcus Iseli,
Tissages des Héritiers de G. Perrin — Groupe Alain Thirion               Cornelis Jorg, Neil Mitchell, Pier Luigi Mondino, Alfredo
(HPG-GAT Tissages), established in Cornimont, France, Établis-          Portone, Carlo Sborchia, Alessandro Tesini, Mike Michael
sements des Fils de Victor Perrin SARL, established in Thiéfosse,        Wykes, temporary agents of the Commission of the European
France, Filatures et Tissages de Saulxures-sur-Moselotte, estab-         Communities, all residing in Naka (Japan), represented by
lished in Saulxures-sur-Moselotte, France, Tissage Mouline               Nicolas Lhoëst, of the Brussels Bar, with an address for service
Thillot, established in Thillot, France, Tessival SpA, established       in Luxembourg at Fiduciaire Becker and Cahen, 3 Rue des
in Azzano S. Paolo, Italy, Filature Niggeler & Küpfer SpA,               Foyers, against the Commission of the European Communities
established in Capriolo, Italy and Standardtela SpA, established         (Agents: G. Valsesia and F. Clotuche-Duvieusart), supported by
in Milan, Italy, represented by C. Stanbrook, QC, and A. Dash-           Council of the European Union (Agents: C. Strömholm and
wood, Barrister, with an address for service in Luxembourg at            T. Blanchet) — application for annulment of all the salary slips
the Chambers of A. Kronshagen, 12 Boulevard de la Foire,                 of the applicants from November 1997 in so far as they apply
against Council of the European Union (Agents: M.A. Santa-               the specific weighting fixed for Naka by Council Regulation
cruz, A. Tanca and S. Marquardt, H.-J. Rabe and G.M. Berrisch),          (ECSC, EC, Euratom) No 1785/97 of 11 September 1997
supported by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern                laying down the weightings applicable from 1 January 1997
Ireland, (Agent: J.E. Collins) — application for annulment of            to the remuneration of officials of the European Communities
the Council’s ‘decision’ not to adopt the proposal for a                 serving in third countries (OJ 1997 L 254, p. 1), and for an
regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports            order requiring the Commission to repay to the applicants the
of unbleached (grey) cotton fabrics originating in the People’s          amounts withheld from their salary with effect from June
Republic of China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and                 1996 by way of recovery of amounts overpaid and to pay
Turkey, (COM(97) 160 final, of 21 April 1997) and for                    them the difference between the salary calculated on the basis
compensation for the damage suffered as a result of that                 of the weighting for Tokyo (Japan) and that paid to them as
‘decision’ — the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber,                from November 1997 on the basis of the specific weighting
Extended Composition), composed of: J. Pirrung, President,               — the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber), composed of
J. Azizi, A. Potocki, M. Jaeger and A.W.H. Meij, Judges;                 J. Pirrung, President, J. Azizi and A. Potocki, Judges; G. Herzig,
G. Herzig, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a                 administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 8 Novem-
judgment on 29 November 2000, in which it:                               ber 2000, in which it: