CELEX: 62016TA0445
Language: en
Date: 2018-02-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-445/16: Judgment of the General Court of 23 February 2018 — Schniga v CPVO (Gala Schnico) (Plant variety rights — Application for Community plant variety rights for the plant variety Gala Schnico — Technical examination — Obligation to state reasons — First sentence of Article 75 of Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 — Uniformity — Article 8 of Regulation No 2100/94 — Complementary examination — Article 57(3) of Regulation No 2100/94 — Equal treatment — Examination of the facts by the CPVO of its own motion — Article 76 of Regulation No 2100/94)

9.4.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 123/17
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 23 February 2018 — Schniga v CPVO (Gala Schnico)
   (Case T-445/16) (1)
   
   ((Plant variety rights - Application for Community plant variety rights for the plant variety Gala Schnico - Technical examination - Obligation to state reasons - First sentence of Article 75 of Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 - Uniformity - Article 8 of Regulation No 2100/94 - Complementary examination - Article 57(3) of Regulation No 2100/94 - Equal treatment - Examination of the facts by the CPVO of its own motion - Article 76 of Regulation No 2100/94))
   (2018/C 123/22)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Schniga GmbH (Bolzano, Italy) (represented by: G. Würtenberger and R. Kunze, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) (represented by: M. Ekvad, F. Mattina and U. Braun-Mlodecka, acting as Agents, and by A. von Mühlendahl and H. Hartwig, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Board of Appeal of the CPVO of 22 April 2016 (Case A 005/2014) concerning an application for a Community plant variety right in respect of the plant variety Gala Schnico.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Schniga GmbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 364, 3.10.2016.