CELEX: C2002/289/40
Language: en
Date: 2002-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 September 2002 in Case T-13/99: Pfizer Animal Health SA v Council of the European Union (Transfer of resistance to antibiotics from animals to humans — Directive 70/524/EEC — Regulation concerning the withdrawal of the authorisation of an additive in feedingstuffs — Admissibility — Article 11 of Directive 70/524/EEC — Manifest error of assessment — Precautionary principle — Risk assessment and risk management — Consultation of a scientific committee — Principle of proportionality — Legitimate expectations — Obligation to state reasons — Right to property — Misuse of powers)

23.11.2002            EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                            C 289/21
                                                       COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                              the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber), composed of:
                                                                         J. Azizi, President, K. Lenaerts and M. Jaeger, Judges; F. Erlbach-
                                                                         er, Legal Secretary, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on
                    of 11 September 2002                                 11 September 2002, in which it:
                                                                         1.     Dismisses the application;
in Case T-13/99: Pfizer Animal Health SA v Council of the                2.     Orders Pfizer to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by
                      European Union ( 1)                                       the Council, including those relating to the proceedings for
                                                                                interim relief;
(Transfer of resistance to antibiotics from animals to humans            3.     Orders the Asociación nacional de productores de ganado
— Directive 70/524/EEC — Regulation concerning the                              porcino, the Asociación española de criadores de vacuno de
withdrawal of the authorisation of an additive in feeding-                      carne, the Fédération européenne de la santé animale and the
stuffs — Admissibility — Article 11 of Directive 70/524/                        Fédération européenne des fabricants d’adjuvants pour la
EEC — Manifest error of assessment — Precautionary                              nutrition animale to bear their own costs and to pay those
principle — Risk assessment and risk management —                               incurred by the Council in respect of their intervention in the
Consultation of a scientific committee — Principle of pro-                      main proceedings and the proceedings for interim relief;
portionality — Legitimate expectations — Obligation to                   4.     Orders the Asociación española de productores de huevos and
   state reasons — Right to property — Misuse of powers)                        the Pig Veterinary Society to bear their own costs and to pay
                                                                                those incurred by the Council in respect of their applications for
                                                                                leave to intervene;
                        (2002/C 289/40)
                                                                         5.     Orders the Commission, the Kingdom of Denmark, the
                                                                                Kingdom of Sweden, the Republic of Finland and the United
                                                                                Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear their
                  (Language of the case: English)
                                                                                own costs, both in the main proceedings and in the proceedings
                                                                                for interim relief.
                                                                         (1 ) OJ C 86 of 27.3.1999.
In Case T-13/99, Pfizer Animal Health SA, established in
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), represented by I.S. Forrester QC,
M. Powell, Solicitor, E. Wright, Barrister, and W. van Lemberg-
en, lawyer, instructed by S.J. Gale-Batten, Solicitor, with an
address for service in Luxembourg, supported by Asociación                    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
nacional de productores de ganado porcino (Anprogapor),
established in Madrid, and Asociación española de criadores                                      of 11 September 2002
de vacuno de carne (Asovac), established in Barcelona (Spain),
represented by J. Folguera Crespo, A. Gutiérrez Hernández,               in Case T-70/99: Alpharma Inc. v Council of the European
J. Massaguer Fuentes and E. Navarro Varona, avocats, with                                                Union ( 1)
an address for service in Luxembourg, and by Féderation
européenne de la santé animale (Fedesa), established in Brus-            (Transfer of resistance to antibiotics from animals to humans
sels, and Féderation européenne des fabricants d’adjuvants               — Directive 70/524/EEC — Regulation withdrawing auth-
pour la nutrition animale (Fefana), established in Brussels,             orisation of an additive in feedingstuffs — Admissibility —
represented by D. Waelbroeck and D. Brinckman, avocats,                  Breach of essential procedural requirements — Manifest
with an address for service in Luxembourg, v Council of the              error of assessment — Precautionary principle — Risk
European Union (Agents: J. Carbery, M. Sims and F. P. Ruggeri            assessment and risk management — Consultation of a
Laderchi), supported by Commission of the European Com-                  scientific committee — Principle of proportionality — Legit-
munities (Agents: P. Oliver, T. Christoforou and K. Fitch), by           imate expectations — Obligation to state reasons — Rights
Kingdom of Denmark (Agents: M. J. Molde, Holst-Christensen                                           of the defence)
and S. Ryom), by Kingdom of Sweden (Agents: A. Kruse and
L. Nordling), by Republic of Finland (Agents: H. Rotkirch,                                          (2002/C 289/41)
T. Pynnä and E. Bygglin) and by United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: R. Magrill): Application                                 (Language of the case: English)
for annulment of Council Regulation (EC) No 2821/98 of
17 December 1998 amending, as regards withdrawal of the
authorisation of certain antibiotics, Directive 70/524/EEC               In Case T-70/99, Alpharma Inc., established in Fort Lee, New
concerning additives in feedingstuffs (OJ 1998 L 351, p. 4),             Jersey (United States of America), represented by G. Robert,