CELEX: C2004/118/15
Language: en
Date: 2004-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 29 April 2004 in Joined Cases C–162/01 P and C–163/01 P: Edouard Bouma and Bernard M.J.B. Beusmans v Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities (Action for damages — Non-contractual liability — Milk — Additional levy — Reference quantity — Producers having entered into a non-marketing undertaking — SLOM 1983 producers — Non-resumption of production on expiry of the undertaking)

30.4.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 118/9
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Sixth Chamber)
   of 29 April 2004
   in Joined Cases C–162/01 P and C–163/01 P: Edouard Bouma and Bernard M.J.B. Beusmans v Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities (1)
   
   (Action for damages - Non-contractual liability - Milk - Additional levy - Reference quantity - Producers having entered into a non-marketing undertaking - SLOM 1983 producers - Non-resumption of production on expiry of the undertaking)
   (2004/C 118/15)
   Language of the cases: Dutch
   In Joined Cases C–162/01 P and C–163/01 P: Edouard Bouma, residing in Rutten (Netherlands), Bernard M.J.B. Beusmans, residing in Noorbeek (Netherlands), (legal representative: E.H. Pijnacker Hordijk) – two appeals lodged against the judgments of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (Fourth Chamber) of 31 January 2001 in Case T–533/93 Bouma v Council and Commission [2001] ECR II–203 and Case T–73/94 Beusmans v Council and Commission [2001] ECR II–223 and seeking to have those judgments set aside; the other parties to the proceedings being: Council of the European Union (Agent: A.–M. Colaert) and Commission of the European Communities (Agent: T. van Rijn) – the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of: V. Skouris, acting as President of the Sixth Chamber, J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen and N. Colneric (Rapporteur), Judges; C. Stix-Hackl, Advocate General; M.-F. Contet, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, delivered a judgment on 29 April 2004, the operative part of which is as follows:
   
               (1)
            
            
               The appeals are dismissed.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Mr Bouma and Mr Beusmans are ordered to pay the respective costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 227, 11.8.2001.