CELEX: C1996/016/01
Language: en
Date: 1996-01-20 00:00:00
Title: JUDGMENT OF THE COURT of 9 November 1995 in Case C-426/93: Federal Republic of Germany v. Council of the European Union (Action for annulment - Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93 on Community coordination in drawing up business registers for statistical purposes - Legal basis - Principle of proportionality)

20 . 1 . 96            EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                      No C 16/ 1
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                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                         COURT OF JUSTICE
               JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                                    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                      of 9 November 1995                                                      of 9 November 1995
in Case C-426/93 : Federal Republic of Germany v. Council               in Case C-465/93 ( reference for a preliminary ruling from
                   of the European Union ( J )                          the Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt am Main ): Atlanta
(Action for annulment — Regulation (EEC) No 2 1 86/93 on                Fruchthandelsgesellschaft mbH and Others v. Bundesamt
Community coordination in drawing up business registers                              für Ernährung und Forstwirtschaft (')
for statistical purposes — Legal basis — Principle of                   (Regulation — Reference for a preliminary ruling —
                         proportionality)                               Assessment of validity — National court — Interim
                            96/C 16/01 )                                                              relief)
                                                                                                  ( 96/C 16/02 )
                (Language of the case: German)
                                                                                         (Language of the case: German)
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be
          published in the European Court Reports)                      (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be
                                                                                  published in the European Court Reports)
In Case C-426/93 : Federal Republic of Germany ( Agents :
Ernst Roder and Hans-Jörg Niemeyer ) v. Council of the
                                                                        In Case C-465/93 : reference to the Court under Article 177
European Union ( Agents : Jill Aussant and Klaus Borchers ),
supported by the Commission of the European                             of the EC Treaty from the Verwaltungsgericht
Communities ( Agent: Jürgen Grunwald ) — application for                ( Administrative Court ) Frankfurt am Main for a
the annulment of Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 2186/93 of               preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending before that
22 July 1993 on Community coordination in drawing up                    court between Atlanta Fruchthandelsgesellschaft mbH and
business registers for statistical purposes ( OJ No L 1 96 , p . 1 )    Others and Bundesamt fur Ernàhrung und Forstwirtschaft
— the Court, composed of: G. C. Rodriguez Iglesias,                     — on the interpretation of Article 1 8 9 of the EC Treaty, and
President, D. A. O. Edward and G. Hirsch ( Presidents of                more particularly on the national court's power to order
Chambers ), G. F. Mancini, F. A. Schockweiler, J. C.                    interim measures disapplying a regulation pending a
Moitinho de Almeida ( Rapporteur ), P. J. G. Kapteyn, C.                preliminary ruling by the Court on its validity — the Court,
Gulmann, J. L. Murray, P. Jann and H. Ragnemalm, Judges;                composed of: G. C. Rodriguez Iglesias, President, C. N.
F. G. Jacobs, Advocate-General ; L. Hewlett, Administrator,             Kakouris, D. A. O. Edward, J. -P. Puissochet and G. Hirsch
 for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 9 November 1995 , the             ( Presidents of Chambers ), G. F. Mancini, F. A. Schockweiler
operative part of which is as follows :                                  ( Rapporteur ), J. C. Moitinho de Almeida, P. J. G. Kapteyn,
                                                                         C. Gulmann, J. L. Murray, P. Jann and H. Ragnemalm,
 1 . the application is dismissed;                                      Judges; M. B. Elmer, Advocate-General; H. A. Rühl,
                                                                        Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a
2 . the Federal Republic of Germany is ordered to pay the               judgment on 9 November 1995 , in which it rules :
      costs;
                                                                         1 . Article 189 of the Treaty is to be interpreted as not
 3 . The Commission of the European Communities shall                         precluding national courts from granting interim relief
      bear its own costs.                                                     to settle or regulate the disputed legal positions or
                                                                              relationships with reference to a national administrative
 (') OJ No C 332 , 8 . 12 . 1993 .                                            measure based on a Community Regulation which is the
                                                                              subject of a reference for a preliminary ruling on its
                                                                              validity;