CELEX: C2002/202/27
Language: en
Date: 2002-08-24 00:00:00
Title: Official Journal of the European Communities Information

24.8.2002              EN                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                         C 202/19
                                                      COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
      Official Journal of the European Communities                            to the Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition:
                                                                              Ms Tiili (President of Chamber), Mr Pirrung, Mr Mengozzi,
                          Information                                         Mr Meij and Mr Vilaras, Judges;
                        (2002/C 202/27)                                       to the Fifth Chamber:
                                                                              Mr Garcı́a-Valdecasas (President of Chamber), Ms Lindh
                                                                              and Mr Cooke, Judges;
Designation of Presidents of Chambers and assignment of Judges to
Chambers                                                                      to the Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition:
At its meeting on 4 July 2002 the Court of First Instance                     Mr Garcı́a-Valdecasas (President of Chamber), Ms Lindh,
decided, pursuant to Article 2(4) of the Council Decision of                  Mr Moura Ramos, Mr Cooke and Mr Legal, Judges;
24 October 1988 and Articles 10 and 15 of the Rules of
Procedure of the Court of First Instance, for the period between        Where the Judge Rapporteur is assigned to another Chamber
1 October 2002 and 30 September 2003:                                   of three judges as a result of the amendment of the composition
                                                                        of the Chambers, cases other than trade mark cases assigned
a.   to designate as Presidents of Chamber:                             to the Second Chamber and a number of staff cases assigned
                                                                        to the First Chamber on a pro rata basis shall be reassigned,
     —     Judge Garcı́a-Valdecasas                                     with effect from 1 October 2002, to the Chamber to which
                                                                        the Judge Rapporteur belongs after that date.
     —     Judge Lenaerts
                                                                        For cases in which the written procedure was completed and a
     —     Judge Tiili
                                                                        hearing in the oral procedure was held or fixed before
     —     Judge Forwood                                                1 October 2002, the Chamber shall continue to sit with the
                                                                        same composition as before for the oral procedure, the
b.   to assign the Members of the Court of First Instance to            deliberation and the judgment.
     the Chambers as follows:
     to the First Chamber:                                              Criteria for assigning cases to the Chambers
     Mr Vesterdorf (President), Mr Moura Ramos and Mr Legal,            At its meeting on 4 July 2002, the Court of First Instance
     Judges;                                                            established the following criteria for the assignment of cases
                                                                        to the Chambers for the period between 1 October 2002 and
     to the First Chamber, Extended Composition:                        30 September 2003 pursuant to Article 12 of the Rules of
     Mr Vesterdorf (President), Mr Azizi, Mr Moura Ramos,               Procedure:
     Mr Jaeger and Mr Legal, Judges;
                                                                        1.    (a)    Actions which concern the implementation of the
     to the Second Chamber:                                                          rules concerning State aid and the rules on trade
                                                                                     protection measures shall be assigned, with effect
     Mr Forwood (President of Chamber), Mr Pirrung and                               from the lodging of the application and without
     Mr Meij, Judges;                                                                prejudice to any subsequent application of
                                                                                     Articles 14 and 51 of the Rules of Procedure, to
     to the Second Chamber, Extended Composition:                                    Chambers with an extended composition of five
     Mr Forwood (President of Chamber), Mr Pirrung,                                  Judges.
     P. Mengozzi, Mr Meij and Mr Vilaras, Judges;
                                                                              (b) All other cases shall be assigned, with effect from
     to the Third Chamber:                                                           the lodging of the application and without prejudice
                                                                                     to any subsequent application of Articles 14 and 51
     Mr Lenaerts (President of Chamber), Mr Azizi and Mr Jae-                        of the Rules of Procedure, to Chambers of three
     ger, Judges;                                                                    Judges.
     to the Third Chamber, Extended Composition:                        2.    Cases referred to in paragraphs 1(a) and 1(b) shall be
     Mr Lenaerts (President of Chamber), Ms Lindh, Mr Azizi,                  assigned to Chambers as follows:
     Mr Cooke and Mr Jaeger, Judges;
                                                                              (a)    The cases referred to in paragraph 1(a) shall be
     to the Fourth Chamber:                                                          assigned in turn, according to the order in which
                                                                                     they are registered at the Court Registry, to the First,
     Ms Tiili (President of Chamber), Mr Mengozzi and                                Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Chambers, Extended
     Mr Vilaras, Judges;                                                             Composition;
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     (b) Cases concerning intellectual property rights, as                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
           referred to in Article 130(1) of the Rules of Pro-
           cedure, shall be assigned, according to the order in
           which they are registered at the Court Registry, to
           the Second, and Fourth Chambers;                                                       of 4 July 2002
     (c)   The other cases referred to in paragraph 1(b) shall
           be assigned to the First, Second, Third, Fourth and          in Case T-340/99: Arne Mathisen AS v Council of the
           Fifth Chambers. Such assignment is to be effected                                   European Union (1)
           on the basis of three separate rotas, according to the
           order in which they are registered at the Court
           Registry:
                                                                        (Definitive anti-dumping and countervailing duties — Far-
                                                                        med Atlantic salmon — Action for annulment — Undertak-
           —     For the cases referred to in Article 236 of the        ing — Circumvention — Obligation to cooperate — Breach
                 EC Treaty and Article 152 of the EAEC Treaty;           — Principle of proportionality — Claim for compensation)
           —     For the cases concerning the implementation
                 of the rules on competition applicable to
                 undertakings;                                                                   (2002/C 202/28)
           —     For the other cases covered by paragraph 1(b).
                                                                                           (Language of the case: English)
           For the purposes of the rota mentioned in the first
           indent above, the assignment of intellectual property
           cases to the Second and Fourth Chambers on the
           basis of the rota mentioned in paragraph 2(b) shall
           be offset by the assignment of cases to the First,
           Third and Fifth Chambers on a pro rata basis.                In Case T-340/99, Arne Mathisen AS, established in Værøy
                                                                        (Norway), represented by S. Knudtzon, lawyer, with an address
           For the purposes of the rotas referred to in para-           for service in Luxembourg, v Council of the European Union
           graphs 2(a) and 2(c), the First Chamber and the First        (Agents: S. Marquardt and G. Berrisch), supported by Com-
           Chamber, Extended Composition, presided by the               mission of the European Communities (Agents: V. Kreuschitz
           President of the Court of First Instance, shall not be       and S. Meany): Application for annulment of Council Regu-
           included in those lists every third time the end of a        lation (EC) No 1895/1999 of 27 August 1999 amending
           rota is reached.                                             Regulation (EC) No 772/1999 imposing definitive anti-dump-
                                                                        ing and countervailing duties on imports of farmed Atlantic
           The President of the Court of First Instance may
                                                                        salmon originating in Norway (OJ 1999 L 233, p. 1) and
           derogate from that order on the ground that cases
                                                                        compensation for damage suffered as a result of the adoption
           are related or with a view to ensuring an even spread
                                                                        of the regulation, the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber,
           of the workload.
                                                                        Extended Composition), composed of: M. Vilaras, President,
                                                                        V. Tiili, J. Pirrung, P. Mengozzi and A.W.H. Meij, Judges;
                                                                        J. Plingers, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a
                                                                        judgment on 4 July 2002, in which it:
Plenary session
At its meeting on 4 July 2002, the Court of First Instance              1.    Dismisses the application;
decided pursuant to the second sub-paragraph of Article 32(1)
of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance that
where, following the designation of an Advocate General                 2.    Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and to pay the costs
pursuant to Article 17 of the Rules of Procedure, there is an                 of the Council;
even number of Judges in the Court of First Instance sitting in
plenary session, the rota established in advance in accordance
with which the President of the Court is to designate the Judge         3.    Orders the Commission to bear its own costs.
who will not take part in the judgment of the case shall be in
reverse order to that in which the Judges rank according to
their seniority in office under Article 6 of the Rules of
Procedure unless the Judge who would thus be designated is              (1) OJ C 79 of 18.3.2000.
the Judge-Rapporteur. In that event, it shall be the judge
ranking immediately above him who shall be designated.