CELEX: C2004/217/01
Language: en
Date: 2004-08-28 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 29 June 2004 in Case C-486/01 P: Front National v European Parliament (Appeal — Statement of formation of a group within the meaning of Rule 29(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament — Lack of political affinities — Retroactive dissolution of the TDI Group — Cross-appeal — Interpretation of the fourth paragraph of Article 230 EC — Meaning of decision of ‘direct and individual’ concern to a natural or legal person — Inadmissibility of action brought by a national political party)

28.8.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/1
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Grand Chamber)
   of 29 June 2004
   in Case C-486/01 P: Front National v European Parliament (1)
   
   (Appeal - Statement of formation of a group within the meaning of Rule 29(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament - Lack of political affinities - Retroactive dissolution of the TDI Group - Cross-appeal - Interpretation of the fourth paragraph of Article 230 EC - Meaning of decision of ‘direct and individual’ concern to a natural or legal person - Inadmissibility of action brought by a national political party)
   (2004/C 217/01)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-486/01 P: Front National, established at Saint-Cloud (France) (avocats: F. Wagner and V. de Poulpiquet de Brescanvel) — appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (Third Chamber, Extended Composition) of 2 October 2001 in Joined Cases T-222/99, T-327/99 and T-329/99 Martinez and Others v Parliament [2001] ECR II-2823, seeking to have that judgment set aside, the other party to the proceedings being: European Parliament (Agents: G. Garzón Clariana, J. Schoo and H. Krück) — the Court (Grand Chamber), composed of: V. Skouris, President, P. Jann, C.W.A. Timmermans (Rapporteur), A. Rosas, J.-P. Puissochet and J.N. Cunha Rodrigues (Presidents of Chambers), R. Schintgen, F. Macken, N. Colneric, S. von Bahr and R. Silva de Lapuerta, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; M. Múgica Arzamendi, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 29 June 2004, in which it:
   
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               Sets aside the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 2 October 2001 in Joined Cases T-222/99, T-327/99 and T-329/99 Martinez and Others v Parliament in so far as it declared admissible the action brought by the Front National (Case T-327/99);
            
         
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               Dismisses as inadmissible the action brought by the Front National for annulment of the European Parliament's Decision of 14 September 1999 concerning the interpretation of Rule 29(1) of the Parliament's Rules of Procedure and dissolving with retroactive effect the ‘Groupe technique des députés indépendants (TDI) – Groupe mixte’;
            
         
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               Finds that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the appeal brought by the Front National against the judgment referred to in paragraph 1 of the operative part of this judgment;
            
         
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               Orders the Front National to pay the costs incurred by the European Parliament both in these proceedings and in the proceedings for interim measures.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 84 of 6.4.2002.