CELEX: C2003/135/38
Language: en
Date: 2003-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 April 2003 in Case T-366/00: Scott SA v Commission of the European Communities (Action for annulment — State aid — Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 — Article 15 — Limitation period — Recovery of aid — Act interrupting the limitation period)

7.6.2003                EN                          Official Journal of the European Union                                                C 135/25
     JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                                     JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                          of 10 April 2003                                                             of 10 April 2003
in Case T-353/00: Jean-Marie Le Pen v European Parlia-                      in Case T-366/00: Scott SA v Commission of the European
                                ment ( 1)                                                              Communities ( 1)
                                                                            (Action for annulment — State aid — Regulation (EC)
(Act of the Parliament — Disqualification of a Member of
                                                                            No 659/1999 — Article 15 — Limitation period — Recovery
the European Parliament from holding office — Application
                                                                                     of aid — Act interrupting the limitation period)
of national law — Action for annulment — Challengeable
                       act — Inadmissibility)
                                                                                                       (2003/C 135/38)
                           (2003/C 135/37)
                                                                                                (Language of the case: English)
                    (Language of the case: French)
                                                                            In Case T-366/00, Scott SA, established in Saint-Cloud (France),
                                                                            represented by Sir Jeremy Lever QC, G. Peretz, Barrister, and
In Case T-353/00, Jean-Marie Le Pen, residing at Saint-Cloud                R. Griffith, Solicitor, with an address for service in Luxem-
(France), represented by F. Wagner, lawyer, v European                      bourg, supported by French Republic (Agents: F. Million,
Parliament (Agents: H. Krück and C. Karamarcos), supported                  G. de Bergues and S. Seam), v Commission of the European
by French Republic (Agents: R. Abraham, G. de Bergues,                      Communities (Agents: G. Rozet and J. Flett): Application for
D. Colas and L. Bernheim): Application for annulment of the                 partial annulment of Commission Decision 2002/14/EC of
decision in the form of a declaration of the President of the               12 July 2000 on the State aid granted by France to Scott Paper
European Parliament of 23 October 2000 on the disqualifi-                   SA Kimberly-Clark (OJ 2002 L 12, p. 1), the Court of First
cation of the applicant from holding office as a Member of                  Instance (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition), composed
the European Parliament, the Court of First Instance (Fifth                 of: J.D. Cooke, President, R. García-Valdecasas, P. Lindh,
Chamber), composed of: J.D. Cooke, President, R. García-                    N.J. Forwood and H. Legal, Judges; J. Palacio González,
Valdecasas and P. Lindh, Judges; J. Palacio González, Principal             Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment
Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on                   on 10 April 2003, in which it:
10 April 2003, in which it:
                                                                            1.     Dismisses the application for annulment of Article 2 of
1.     Dismisses the application as inadmissible;                                  Commission Decision 2002/14/EC of 12 July 2000 in so far
                                                                                   as it alleges that the Commission infringed Article 15 of
                                                                                   Council Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 of 22 March 1999
                                                                                   laying down detailed rules for the application of Article [88 EC];
2.     Orders the applicant to bear his own costs and to pay those of
       the Parliament in the main proceedings and in the proceedings
       on the application for interim relief;
                                                                            2.     Orders that the remainder of the proceedings be continued;
3.     Orders the French Republic bear its own costs.
                                                                            3.     Reserves the costs.
( 1) OJ C 28 of 27.01.2001.                                                 (1 ) OJ C 61 of 24.2.2001.