CELEX: C2001/303/01
Language: en
Date: 2001-10-27 00:00:00
Title: Decisions adopted by the Court at its meeting on 18 September 2001

27.10.2001            EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                      C 303/1
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                                                  COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                           COURT OF JUSTICE
Decisions adopted by the Court at its meeting on 18 Sep-                 Second Chamber
                         tember 2001
                                                                         Ms Colneric, President of the Chamber,
                       (2001/C 303/01)
                                                                         Mr Schintgen and Mr Skouris, Judges.
The Court of Justice of the European Communities adopted                 Third Chamber
the following decisions at its meeting on 18 September 2001:
                                                                         Ms Macken, President of the Chamber,
                                                                         Mr Gulmann, Mr Puissochet and Mr da Cunha Rodrigues,
                                                                         Judges.
Appointment of Presidents of Chambers
                                                                         Fourth Chamber
In accordance with Article 10(1) of the Rules of Procedure, the
Court has appointed for a period of one year starting on
7 October 2001:                                                          Mr von Bahr, President of the Chamber,
                                                                         Mr Edward, Mr La Pergola and Mr Timmermans, Judges.
—     Judge Jann as President of the First and Fifth Chambers,
                                                                         Fifth Chamber
—     Judge Macken as President of the Third and Sixth
      Chambers,                                                          Mr Jann, President of the Chamber,
—     Judge Colneric as President of the Second Chamber,                 Mr von Bahr, Mr Edward, Mr La Pergola, Mr Sevón, Mr Wathe-
                                                                         let and Mr Timmermans, Judges.
—     Judge von Bahr as President of the Fourth Chamber.
                                                                         Sixth Chamber
                                                                         Ms Macken, President of the Chamber,
Composition of the Chambers
                                                                         Ms Colneric, Mr Gulmann, Mr Puissochet, Mr Schintgen,
                                                                         Mr Skouris and Mr da Cunha Rodrigues, Judges.
1.     The composition of the Chambers for the same period
has been determined as follows:
                                                                         2.     For each case assigned to them, the Third and Fourth
                                                                         Chambers (to each of which four Judges are attached) shall be
First Chamber                                                            composed of the President of the Chamber, the Judge Rappor-
                                                                         teur and a third Judge designated in the order set out in a list
Mr Jann, President of the Chamber,                                       which corresponds to the order of seniority. At each general
                                                                         meeting the starting point on that list shall be moved down
Mr Sevón and Mr Wathelet, Judges.                                       one name.
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3.     For the purposes of determining the five Judges who are           Sixth Chamber
to sit in each case assigned to a large Chamber, that is to say,
the Fifth and Sixth Chamber (to each of which seven Judges               (President: Judge Macken)
are attached), a list shall be drawn up for the judicial year. That      Mr Gulmann, Mr Puissochet, Mr da Cunha Rodrigues,
list shall comprise all the Judges of the Chamber, apart from            Mr Schintgen, Mr Skouris and Ms Colneric, Judges.
the President, in the following order:
(a)   the Judges of the small Chamber composed of four
      Judges, in order of seniority;                                     Appointment of the First Advocate General
(b) the Judges of the other small Chamber, in the same order.            In accordance with Article 10(1) of the Rules of Procedure, the
                                                                         Court of Justice appointed Advocate General S. Alber as First
                                                                         Advocate General for a period of one year starting on
For each case, the large Chamber shall be composed of:                   7 October 2001.
—     the President,
—     the Judge-Rapporteur,
                                                                                          JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
—     three Judges designated in the order set out in the relevant
      list; the starting point on that list shall be moved down
      one name at each general meeting.                                                        of 13 September 2001
                                                                         in Case C-89/99 (reference for a preliminary ruling from
Replacement of a Judge or Judges prevented from attending                the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden): Schieving-Nijstad vof
shall be in the order set out in the list. However, should the                         and Others v Robert Groeneveld (1)
President of a large Chamber be prevented from sitting, he
shall be replaced preferably by the President of the small
Chamber.                                                                 (Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation —
                                                                         Article 50(6) of the TRIPs Agreement — Interpretation —
                                                                         Direct effect — Application to proceedings pending at the
If the Court, or a Chamber, considers that a number of cases             time of entry into force in the State concerned — Conditions
should be heard and determined together (whether or not they             regarding the time-limit for bringing substantive proceed-
are formally joined), the composition of the bench shall be                           ings — Calculation of that time-limit)
that determined for the first of the cases discussed at a general
meeting.                                                                                           (2001/C 303/02)
                                                                                             (Language of the case: Dutch)
4.     For the period ending on 6 October 2002, the lists
referred to above are as follows:
                                                                         (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                                                                                            in the European Court Reports)
Third Chamber
(President: Judge Macken)                                                In Case C-89/99: reference to the Court under Article 177 of
                                                                         the EC Treaty (now Article 234 EC) from the the Hoge Raad
                                                                         der Nederlanden (Supreme Court of the Netherlands) for a
Mr Gulmann, Mr Puissochet and Mr da Cunha Rodrigues,
                                                                         preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that
Judges
                                                                         court between Schieving-Nijstad vof and Others and Robert
                                                                         Groeneveld — on the interpretation of Article 50(6) of the
Fourth Chamber                                                           Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
                                                                         Rights, as set out in Annex 1 C to the Agreement establishing
(President: Judge von Bahr)                                              the World Trade Organisation, approved on behalf of the
                                                                         Community, as regards matters within its competence, by
Mr Edward, Mr La Pergola and Mr Timmermans, Judges                       Council Decision 94/800/EC of 22 December 1994 (OJ 1994
                                                                         L 336, p. 1) — the Court, composed of: G.C. Rodrı́guez
                                                                         Iglesias, President, C. Gulmann, A. La Pergola, M. Wathelet
Fifth Chamber                                                            and V. Skouris (Presidents of Chambers), D.A.O. Edward
                                                                         (Rapporteur), J.-P. Puissochet, P. Jann, L. Sevón, R. Schintgen,
(President: Judge Jann)                                                  F. Macken, N. Colneric, S. von Bahr, J.N. Cunha Rodrigues and
                                                                         C.W.A. Timmermans, Judges; F.G. Jacobs, Advocate General;
Mr Edward, Mr La Pergola, Mr von Bahr, Mr Timmermans,                    L. Hewlett, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a
Mr Sevón and Mr Wathelet, Judges                                        judgment on 13 September 2001, in which it has ruled: