CELEX: 62014TA0817
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-817/14: Judgment of the General Court of 17 March 2016 — Zoofachhandel Züpke and Others v Commission (Non-contractual liability — Health policy — Combating avian influenza — Prohibition of the importation of captured wild birds into the EU — Regulation (EC) No 318/2007 and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 139/2013 — Sufficiently serious breach of rules of law conferring rights on individuals — Manifest and serious disregard for the limits of discretion — Proportionality — Duty of care — Articles 15 to 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights)

2.5.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 156/38
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 17 March 2016 — Zoofachhandel Züpke and Others v Commission
   
   (Case T-817/14) (1)
   
   ((Non-contractual liability - Health policy - Combating avian influenza - Prohibition of the importation of captured wild birds into the EU - Regulation (EC) No 318/2007 and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 139/2013 - Sufficiently serious breach of rules of law conferring rights on individuals - Manifest and serious disregard for the limits of discretion - Proportionality - Duty of care - Articles 15 to 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights))
   (2016/C 156/49)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Zoofachhandel Züpke GmbH (Wesel, Germany), Zoohaus Bürstadt, Helmut Ofenloch GmbH & Co. KG (Bürstadt, Germany), Zoofachgeschäft — Vogelgroßhandel Import-Export Heinz Marche (Heinsberg, Germany), Rita Bürgel (Uthleben, Germany), and Norbert Kass (Altenbeken, Germany) (represented by: C. Correll, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Eggers and H. Kranenborg, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for compensation in respect of the harm allegedly suffered by the applicants, from 1 January 2010, by reason of the adoption of the prohibition of the importation of captured wild birds into the European Union contained, first, in Commission Regulation (EC) No 318/2007 of 23 March 2007 laying down animal health conditions for imports of certain birds into the Community and the quarantine conditions thereof (OJ 2007 L 84, p. 7) and, subsequently, in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 139/2013 of 7 January 2013 laying down animal health conditions for imports of certain birds into the Union and the quarantine conditions thereof (OJ 2013 L 47, p. 1).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Zoofachhandel Züpke GmbH, Zoohaus Bürstadt, Helmut Ofenloch GmbH & Co. KG, Zoofachgeschäft — Vogelgroßhandel Import-Export Heinz Marche, Ms Rita Bürgel and Mr Norbert Kass to pay their own costs and those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 89, 16.3.2015.