CELEX: C2001/317/01
Language: en
Date: 2001-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 2 October 2001 in Case C-172/97 OP: SIVU du plan d'eau de la Vallée du Lot, otherwise known as SIVU du pays d'accueil de la Vallée du Lot v Commission of the European Communities and Hydro-Réalisations SARL (Arbitration clause — Non-performance of a contract — Proceedings to have a judgment by default set aside)

10.11.2001              EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                              C 317/1
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                                                     COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                 JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                       2.    Orders SIVU du plan d’eau de la Vallée du Lot, otherwise
                                                                                   known as SIVU du pays d’accueil de la Vallée du Lot, and
                                                                                   Hydro-Réalisations SARL jointly and severally to pay the
                         (Third Chamber)                                           Commission of the European Communities the sum of
                                                                                   EUR 35 404,78, together with contractual interest with effect
                        of 2 October 2001                                          from 30 October 1998 until discharge of the debt in full.
                                                                             3.    Dismisses the remainder of the application by SIVU du plan
in Case C-172/97 OP: SIVU du plan d’eau de la Vallée du                            d’eau de la Vallée du Lot, otherwise known as SIVU du pays
Lot, otherwise known as SIVU du pays d’accueil de la                               d’accueil de la Vallée du Lot.
Vallée du Lot v Commission of the European Communi-                          4.    Orders SIVU du plan d’eau de la Vallée du Lot, otherwise
             ties and Hydro-Réalisations SARL (1)                                  known as SIVU du pays d’accueil de la Vallée du Lot, and the
                                                                                   Commission of the European Communities to bear their own
                                                                                   costs in this application.
(Arbitration clause — Non-performance of a contract —
    Proceedings to have a judgment by default set aside)
                                                                             (1) OJ C 226 of 7.8.1999.
                          (2001/C 317/01)
                    (Language of the case: French)                                             JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                                                                                                        (Fifth Chamber)
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                   in the European Court Reports)                                                   of 13 September 2001
                                                                             in Case C-169/99 (reference for a preliminary ruling from
In Case C-172/97 OP: SIVU du plan d’eau de la Vallée du Lot,                 the Bundesgerichtshof): Hans Schwarzkopf GmbH & Co.
otherwise known as SIVU du pays d’accueil de la Vallée du Lot,               KG v Zentrale zur Bekämpfung unlauteren Wettbewerbs
established in La Canourgue (France) (Avocat: T. Vernhet) —                                                    eV (1)
application to have the judgment by default delivered by the
Court of Justice of the European Communities (Third Chamber)                 (Article 6(1)(d), last sentence, of Directive 76/768/EEC, as
on 10 June 1999 in Case C-172/97 Commission v SIVU and                       amended by Directive 93/35/EEC — Prescribed labelling
Hydro-Réalisations [1999] ECR I-3363 set aside, the other                    ‘impossible for practical reasons’ — Justification for putting
parties to the proceedings being: Commission of the European                 abbreviated forms of compulsory warnings on the containers
Communities, (Agents: initially R.B. Wainwright and O. Couv-                 and packaging of cosmetic products — Information provided
ert-Castéra, and, subsequently, R.B. Wainwright and J.-F. Pas-               in nine languages in the interests of greater flexibility in the
quier) and Hydro-Réalisations SARL, established in Rodez                                      marketing of cosmetic products)
(France) — the Court (Third Chamber), composed of: C. Gul-
                                                                                                         (2001/C 317/02)
mann, President of the Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet (Rapporteur)
and F. Macken, Judges; S. Alber, Advocate General; R. Grass,                                     (Language of the case: German)
Registrar, has given a judgment on 20 October 2001, in which
it:                                                                          (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                                                                                                  in the European Court Reports)
1.    Sets aside point 1 of the operative part of the judgment by            In Case C-169/99: reference to the Court under Article 234 of
      default of 10 June 1999 in Case C-172/97 Commission v                  the EC Treaty from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) for a
      SIVU and Hydro-Réalisations.                                           preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that