CELEX: C2007/199/50
Language: en
Date: 2007-08-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-90/03: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 July 2007 — Fédération des industries condimentaires de France and Others v Commission (Non-contractual liability — Incompatibility of the Community prohibition on the importation of meat containing substances having a hormonal action with the rules of the World Trade Association (WTO) — Imposition by the United States of America of a surcharge on the import of products from the Community pursuant to WTO authorisation — Termination by the Commission of proceedings to investigate trade barriers — Application for compensation of groups of Community exporters adversely affected by the surcharge)

25.8.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 199/27
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 July 2007 — Fédération des industries condimentaires de France and Others v Commission
   (Case T-90/03) (1)
   
   (Non-contractual liability - Incompatibility of the Community prohibition on the importation of meat containing substances having a hormonal action with the rules of the World Trade Association (WTO) - Imposition by the United States of America of a surcharge on the import of products from the Community pursuant to WTO authorisation - Termination by the Commission of proceedings to investigate trade barriers - Application for compensation of groups of Community exporters adversely affected by the surcharge)
   (2007/C 199/50)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicants: Fédération des industries condimentaires de France (FICF) (Paris, France); the Confédération Générale des producteurs de lait de brebis et des industriels de Roquefort (Millau, France); Comité économique agricole régional fruits et légumes de Bretagne (Cerafel) (Morlaix, France); and Comité interprofessionnel des palmipèdes à foie gras (CIFOG) (Paris, France) (represented by: initially, M. Jacquot and O. Prost, and subsequently, O. Prost, K. Lentz, E. Berthelot and M. Baudin, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: P. Kuijper, C. Brown and G. Boudot, acting as Agents)
   
      Party intervening in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: initially, E. Braquehais Conesa, and subsequently, J. Rodriguez Cárcamo, acting as Agents)
   Re:
   Application for compensation for the damage allegedly caused by the Commission's purportedly unlawful action in the face of retaliatory trade measures taken by the United States of America in the so-called case on ‘beef having a hormonal action’.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the application;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders the applicants jointly and severally to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 112, 10.5.2003.