CELEX: C2002/056/32
Language: en
Date: 2002-03-02 00:00:00
Title: Case T-320/01: Action brought on 17 December 2001 by Pietro del Vaglio against the Commission of the European Communities

C 56/18               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                      2.3.2002
Decision of the Board of      rescission of the decision of the          —     order the defendant to pay damages provisionally asses-
Appeal:                       Opposition Division and referral                 sed, on a fair and equitable basis, in the sum of
                              of the case back to the Opposition               10 000 euros and to pay interest at 7 % per annum on
                              Division as regards the goods and                the balance of the pension due from 24 September 2000
                              services not covered by the                      to 1 April 2001;
                              decision of the Board of Appeal.
                                                                         —     order the defendant to pay all the costs.
Grounds of claim:             —     infringement         of    Ar-
                                    ticle 8(1)(b) of Regulation
                                    (EC) No 40/94 (1);                   Pleas in law and main arguments
                              —     no risk of confusion;
                                                                         The pleas in law and arguments advanced are broadly similar
                              —     no similarity between the
                                                                         to those put forward in Case T-124/01 Del Vaglio v Com-
                                    allegedly conflicting services.
                                                                         mission (OJ 2001 C 227, p. 31).
(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the
    Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1).
                                                                         Action brought on 15 December 2001 by Internationaler
                                                                         Hilfsfonds e.V. against the Commission of the European
                                                                                                   Communities
                                                                                                 (Case T-321/01)
                                                                                                  (2002/C 56/33)
Action brought on 17 December 2001 by Pietro del Vaglio
against the Commission of the European Communities
                                                                                            (Language of the case: French)
                         (Case T-320/01)
                                                                         An action against the Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                         ties was brought before the Court of First Instance of the
                          (2002/C 56/32)                                 European Communities on 15 December 2001 by Interna-
                                                                         tionaler Hilfsfonds e.V., established at Rosbach (Federal Repub-
                                                                         lic of Germany), represented by Hans Kaltenecker, lawyer.
                   (Language of the case: French)
                                                                         The applicant claims that the Court should:
                                                                         —     annul the decision of the European Commission of
                                                                               16 October 2001 by which it refused the applicant’s
An action against the Commission of the European Communi-                      1996 and 1997 requests for co-financing;
ties was brought before the Court of First Instance of the
European Communities on 17 December 2001 by Pietro del
                                                                         —     order the Commission, pursuant to the principle of
Vaglio, residing in London, represented by Georges Vander-
                                                                               reimbursement, to pay the costs, including those resulting
sanden and Laure Levi, lawyers.
                                                                               from the procedures before the Ombudsman which the
                                                                               applicant was constrained to incur in order to obtain its
                                                                               entitlement.
The applicant claims that the Court should:
—    annul the defendant’s decision of 6 September 2001                  Pleas in law and main arguments
     rejecting the applicant’s complaint concerning the appli-
     cation to his pension of the weighting for the United
     Kingdom;                                                            The applicant is challenging the Commission’s decision of
                                                                         16 October 2001 rejecting three requests for co-financing
                                                                         which it had made under budget heading B7-6000, concerning
—    order the defendant to apply the weighting for the United           the co-financing of actions with European non-governmental
     Kingdom with retroactive effect from 24 September                   development organisations (NGDOs) in fields relating to
     2000;                                                               developing countries.