CELEX: 62013TA0261
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-261/13 and T-86/14: Judgment of the General Court of 23 September 2015 — Netherlands v Commission (HICP — Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 — Harmonised indices of consumer prices at constant tax rates (HICP-CT) — Regulation (EU) No 119/2013 — Owner-occupied housing price indices — Regulation (EU) No 119/2013 — Eurostat — Committee procedure — Implementing measures — Regulatory procedure with scrutiny)

23.11.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 389/31
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 23 September 2015 — Netherlands v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-261/13 and T-86/14) (1)
   
   ((HICP - Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 - Harmonised indices of consumer prices at constant tax rates (HICP-CT) - Regulation (EU) No 119/2013 - Owner-occupied housing price indices - Regulation (EU) No 119/2013 - Eurostat - Committee procedure - Implementing measures - Regulatory procedure with scrutiny))
   (2015/C 389/32)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented, in Case T-261/13, by M. Bulterman, J. Langer and B. Koopman and, in Case T-86/14, by M. Bulterman and J. Langer, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Clausen and P. Van Nuffel, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   In Case T-261/13, an application for annulment of Commission Regulation (EU) No 119/2013 of 11 February 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 2214/96 concerning harmonised indices of consumer prices (HICP): transmission and dissemination of sub-indices of the HICP, as regards establishing harmonised indices of consumer prices at constant tax rates (OJ 2013 L 41, p. 1) and, in the alternative, an application for annulment of Article 1(2) of Regulation No 119/2013 as well as, in Case T-86/14, an application for annulment of Commission Regulation (EU) No 93/2013 of 1 February 2013 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 concerning harmonised indices of consumer prices, as regards establishing owner-occupied housing price indices (OJ 2013 L 33, p. 14) and, in the alternative, an application for annulment of Article 4(1) of Regulation No 93/2013.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls, in Case T-261/13, Article 1(2) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 119/2013 of 11 February 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 2214/96 concerning harmonised indices of consumer prices (HICP): transmission and dissemination of sub-indices of the HICP, as regards establishing harmonised indices of consumer prices at constant tax rates;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Annuls, in Case T-86/14, Article 4(1) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 93/2013 of 1 February 2013 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95 concerning harmonised indices of consumer prices, as regards establishing owner-occupied housing price indices;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 189, 29.6.2013.