CELEX: C1996/370/25
Language: en
Date: 1996-12-07 00:00:00
Title: JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE of 22 October 1996 in Case T-154/94: Comité des Salines de France et Compagnie des Salins du Midi et des Salines de l'Est v. Commission of the European Communities (State aid - General regional aid scheme - Letter from the Commission concerning aid - Action for annulment - Inadmissible)

7 . 12 . 96             EN 1                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                     No C 370/ 11
     comply with Commission Directive 93/90/EEC of                      Pleas in law and main arguments adduced in support:
     29 October 1993 ( : ) concerning the list of substances
     referred to in the fifth indent of Article 13 ( 1 ) of             The pleas in law and main arguments are the same as in
     Council Directive 67/548/EEC ( 2 ) and/or by failing to            Case C-356/9 6 ( 3 ); the time-limit for transposition expired
     communicate those measures, the Kingdom of Belgium                 on 31 October 1993 .
     has failed to fulfil its obligations under that Directive,
                                                                        (') OJ No L 277, 10 . 1 1 . 1993 , p . 33 .
                                                                        ( ~ ) OJ , English Special Edition ( 1967 ), p. 234 .
— order the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs .                       ( M See Case C-356/96 above .
                                                       COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                              Netherlands authorities — the Court of First Instance
                       of 22 October 1996
                                                                        (Third Chamber, Extended Composition ), composed of:
                                                                        C. R Briët, President, B. Vesterdorf, P. Lindh, A. Potocki
in Case T-154/94 :        Comité des Salines de France et               and J. D. Cooke, Judges, J. Palacio Gonzalez,
Compagnie des Salins du Midi et des Salines de l'Est v.                 Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on
                                                                        22 October 1996 in which it:
         Commission of the European Communities ( 1 )
(State aid — General regional aid scheme — Letter from the
Commission concerning aid — Action for annulment —                      1 . dismisses the action as inadmissible ;
                            Inadmissible)
                           ( 96/C 370/25 )                              2 . orders the applicants to pay the costs, including those
                                                                              incurred by Frima B V;
                 (Language of the case: French)                         3 . orders Salt Union Ltd, Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG ,
                                                                              and Verein Deutsche Salzindustrie eV to bear their own
                                                                              costs .
In Case T- 154/94 : Comite des Salines de France, established           (') OJ No C 161 , 11.6 . 1994 .
in Paris, and Compagnie des Salins du Midi et des Salines
de l'Est SA, established in Paris, represented by Dominique
Voillemot, of the Paris Bar, and Peter Verloop, of the
Amsterdam Bar, with an address for service in Luxembourg
at the Chambers of Jacques Loesch, 11 Rue Goethe,
supported by Salt Union Ltd, established in Cheshire                        JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
( United Kingdom ), represented by Jonathan Scott and Craig
Pouncey, Solicitors, with an address for service in                                               of 22 October 1996
Luxembourg at the Chambers of Georges Baden,                            in Joined Cases T-79/95 and T-80/95 : Société Nationale
8 Boulevard Royal, and Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG,                    des Chemins de Fer Français and British Railways Board v.
established in Heilbronn ( Germany ), and Verein Deutsche                          Commission of the European Communities ( 1 )
Salzindustrie eV, established in Bonn ( Germany ),
represented by Thomas Jestaedt and Barbel Altes,                        (Competition — Channel Tunnel — Reservation of SO % of
Rechtsanwälte, Dusseldorf, and Walter Klosterfelde and                  tunnel capacity for two railway companies — Restrictions
Karsten Metzlaff, Rechtsanwälte, Hamburg, with an                          on competition — Exemption — Access for third parties)
address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of                                                 ( 96/C 370/26 )
Philippe Dupont, 8-10 Rue Mathias Hardt, v. Commission
of the European Communities ( Agents : initially Giuliano
Marenco and Jean-Paul Keppenne, then Giuliano Marenco                               (Language of the case: English and French)
and Paul Nemitz ), supported by Frima BV, established in
The Hague ( Netherlands ), represented by Tom Ottervanger
and Gerrit Vriezen , of the Rotterdam Bar, with an address              In Joined Cases T-79/95 and T-80/95 : Societe Nationale des
for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of Carlos                     Chemins de Fer Français, established in Paris, represented
Zeyen, 67 Rue Ermesinde — application for annulment of                  by Barbara Rapp-Jung and Nathalie Flandin, of the Brussels
the decision allegedly contained in a letter addressed by the           Bar, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the
Commission on 7 February 1994 to Comite des Salines de                  Chambers of Victor Elvinger, 31 Rue d'Eich, and British
France concerning aid granted to Frima BV by the                        Railways Board, established in London , represented by