CELEX: C2003/031/22
Language: en
Date: 2003-02-08 00:00:00
Title: Information

C 31/16               EN                        Official Journal of the European Union                                                    8.2.2003
                                                     COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                          Information                                   K. Lenaerts and J. Azizi, Judges; J. Plingers, Administrator, for
                                                                        the Registrar, has given a judgment on 14 November 2002, in
                        (2003/C 31/22)                                  which it:
                                                                        1.     Orders that Cases T-94/00, T-110/00 and T-159/00 be
At its meeting on 9 January 2003, the Court of First Instance                  joined for the purposes of the judgment;
decided as follows:
                                                                        2.     Dismisses the applications;
The decisions adopted on 4 July 2002 (OJ 2002 C 202, p. 19)
                                                                        3.     Orders each of the applicants to bear its own costs and pay
on the designation of the Presidents of Chamber and the
                                                                               those incurred by the Commission, including those incurred by
composition of the Chambers for the period between 1 Octo-
                                                                               it in the proceedings for interim relief, in the case it has brought;
ber 2002 and 30 September 2003 shall remain in force, after
the entry into force of the Treaty of Nice, for the period for
                                                                        4.     Orders the interveners to bear their own costs.
which they were adopted.
                                                                        (1 ) OJ C 176 of 24.6.00 and C 259 of 9.9.00.
    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                    of 14 November 2002
                                                                             JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
in Joined Cases T-94/00, T-110/00 and T-159/00: Rica
Foods (Free Zone) NV and Others v Commission of the                                             of 14 November 2002
                  European Communities ( 1)
                                                                        in Joined Cases T-332/00 and T-350/00: Rica Foods (Free
(Association arrangements for the overseas countries and                Zone) NV and Free Trade Foods NV v Commission of the
territories — Regulation (EC) No 465/2000 — Imports of                                        European Communities ( 1)
sugar and mixtures of sugar and cocoa — EC/OCT cumu-
lation of origin — Safeguard measure — Application for                  (Association arrangements for the overseas countries and
annulment — Action for damages — Article 109 of the                     territories — Regulation (EC) No 2081/2000 — Imports of
OCT Decision — Principle of proportionality — Misuse of                 sugar and mixtures of sugar and cocoa — EC/OCT cumu-
                             powers)                                    lation of origin — Safeguard measure — Application for
                                                                        annulment — Action for damages — Article 109 of the
                        (2003/C 31/23)                                  OCT Decision — Principle of proportionality — Misuse of
                                                                                                          powers)
                  (Language of the case: Dutch)
                                                                                                    (2003/C 31/24)
In Joined Cases T-94/00, T-110/00 and T-159/00: Rica Foods
                                                                                              (Language of the case: Dutch)
(Free Zone) NV, established in Oranjestad (Aruba), represented
by G. van der Wal, lawyer, with an address for service in
Luxembourg, Free Trade Foods NV, established in Curaçao
(Netherlands Antilles), Suproco NV, established in Curaçao,             In Joined Cases T-332/00 and T-350/00: Rica Foods (Free
represented by M. Slotboom and J. Coumans, avocats, with an             Zone) NV, established in Oranjestad (Aruba), represented by
address for service in Luxembourg, supported by Kingdom of              G. van der Wal, lawyer, with an address for service in
the Netherlands (Agents: J. van Bakel and H. G. Sevenster),             Luxembourg, supported by Kingdom of the Netherlands
against Commission of the European Communities (Agent:                  (Agents: J. van Bakel, H. Sevenster and H. van der Oosterkamp),
T. van Rijn), supported by Kingdom of Spain (Agent: N. Díaz             and Free Trade Foods NV, established in Curaçao (Antilles
Abad) and, in Cases T-94/00 and T-110/00, by French                     néerlandaises), represented by M. Slotboom, N. Helder and
Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and L. Berheim) — application           J. Coumans, lawers, with an address for service in Luxembourg
first, for annulment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 465/              against Commission of the European Communities (Agent:
2000 of 29 February 2000 introducing safeguard measures                 T. van Rijn), supported by Kingdom of Spain (Agents: N. Díaz
for imports from the overseas countries and territories of sugar        Abad and López-Monís Gallego) — application first for
sector products with EC/OCT cumulation of origin (OJ 2000               annulment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2081/2000 of
L 56, p. 39), and secondly for damages — the Court of First             29 September 2000 providing for the continued application
Instance (Third Chamber), composed of M. Jaeger, President,             of safeguard measures for imports from the overseas countries