CELEX: C1997/387/24
Language: en
Date: 1997-12-20 00:00:00
Title: JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE of 22 October 1997 in Joined Cases T-213/95 and T-18/96: Stichting Certificatie Kraanverhuurbedrijf (SCK) and Federatie van Nederlandse Kraanverhuurbedrijven (FNK) v. Commission of the European Communities (Competition - Mobile cranes - Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights - Acting within a reasonable time - Certification system - Prohibition on hiring - Recommended rates - Internal rates - Fines)

C 387/ 14                 EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                  20 . 12 . 97
                                                      COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                             Rechtsanwalt, Cologne, with an address for service in
                          of 15 October 1997                           Luxembourg at the Chambers of Aloyse May, 31 Grand-
                                                                       Rue v. Commission of the European Communities,
in Case T-331/94 : IPK-München GmbH v. Commission of                   ( Agents : initially Norbert Lorenz and Géraud de Bergues,
                  the European Communities (')                         then Klaus Wiedner and Heinz-Joachim Freund ) —
                                                                       application for the annulment of Commission Decision
(Financial assistance for an ecological tourism project —
                                                                       94/210/EC of 29 March 1994 relating to a proceeding
Reduction — Application for annulment — Admissibility
                                                                       pursuant to Articles 85 and 86 of the EC Treaty ( IV/
— Confirmatory act — Legal certainty — Legitimate
                                                                       33.941 — HOV-SVZ/MCN, OJ L 104, 23 . 4 . 1994, p. 34 )
             expectations — Statement of reasons)                      or, in the alternative , the annulment or reduction of the
                             ( 97/C 387/22                             fine imposed by that decision on the applicant — the
                                                                       Court of First Instance ( First Chamber, Extended
                                                                       Composition ), composed of: A. Saggio, President, A.
                 (Language of the case: German)                        Kalogeropoulos, V. Tiili, R. M. Moura Ramos and M.
                                                                       Jaeger, Judges; A. Mair, Administrator for the Registrar;
                                                                       has given a judgment on 15 October 1997, in which it:
In Case T-331 /94: IPK-München GmbH, established in
Munich ( Germany ), represented by Hans-Joachim Priess,
of the Brussels Bar, 13 Place des Barricades, Brussels v.
 Commission of the European Communities, ( Agent:                       1 . dismisses the application;
Jürgen Grunwald ) — application for annulment of the
 Commission's decision of 3 August 1994 not to pay the
 balance of financial assistance granted to the applicant in
 connection with a project to create a databank on                      2 . orders the applicant to pay the costs.
 ecological tourism in Europe — the Court of First Instance
 ( First Chamber), composed of A. Saggio, President, V. Tiili
 and R. M. Moura Ramos, Judges; A. Mair, Administrator                  (') OJ C 218 , 6 . 8 . 1994 .
 for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 15 October
 1997, in which it:
 1 . dismisses the application;
 2 . orders the applicant to pay the costs.
                                                                           JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
  (') OJ C 370 , 24 . 12 . 1994 .                                                                of 22 October 1997
                                                                         in Joined Cases T-213/95 and T-18/96: Stichting
                                                                         Certificatie Kraanverhuurbedrijf ( SCK) and Federatie van
                                                                         Nederlandse Kraanverhuurbedrijven (FNK) v. Commission
                                                                                        of the European Communities ( 1 )
    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                               (Competition — Mobile cranes — Article 6 of the
                           of 21 October 1997                            European Convention on Human Rights — Acting within
                                                                         a reasonable time — Certification system — Prohibition
  in Case T-229/94 : Deutsche Bahn AG v. Commission of                    on hiring — Recommended rates — Internal rates —
                   the European Communities (')                                                            Fines)
   (Competition — Carriage by rail of maritime containers                                             ( 97/C 387/24 )
   — Regulation (EEC) No 1017/68 — Agreements,
   decisions and concerted practices — Dominant position —
   Abuse — Fine — Criteria of assessment — Principle of
   proportionality — Rights of the defence — Access to the                                 (Language of the case: Dutch)
                 file — Principle of legal certainty)
                                97/C 387/23
                                                                          In Joined Cases T-213/95 and T-18/96 : Stichting
                   (Language of the case: German)                          Certificatie Kraanverhuurbedrijf ( SCK ) and Federatie
                                                                           van Nederlandse Kraanverhuurbedrijven ( FNK ), whose
                                                                           registered office is in Culembourg, Netherlands,
   In Case T-229/94 : Deutsche Bahn AG, established in                     represented by Martijn van Empel, of the Amsterdam . Bar,
   Frankfurt ( Germany ), represented by Jochim Sedemund,                  and Thomas Janssens, of the Brussels Bar, with an address
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for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of Marc                             JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
Loesch, 11 Rue Goethe , v. Commission of the European
                                                                                                 of 24 October 1997
Communities ( Agent: Wouter Wils ), supported in Case
T-18/9 6 by Van Marwijk Kraanverhuur BV, whose
registered office is in Zoetermeer, Netherlands ,                          in Case T-239/94 : Association des Aciéries Européennes
Kraanbedrijf Nijdam BV, whose registered office is                         Indépendantes ( EISA) v. Commission of the European
                                                                                                   Communities (')
in Groningen, Netherlands, Kranen, Transport &
Montage's Gilde NV, whose registered office is                             (ECSC — Action for annulment — State aid — Individual
in Geldermalsen, Netherlands, Wassink Transport
                                                                           decisions authorizing the grant of State aid to steel
Arnhem BV, whose registered office is in Arnhem,
                                                                           undertakings — Incompatibility with Treaty provisions —
Netherlands, Koedam Kraanverhuur BV, whose registered                      Retroactivity — Article 4 (b) and (c) and the first and
office is in Vianen, Netherlands, Firma Huurdeman
                                                                                   second paragraphs of Article 95 of the Treaty)
Kraanwagenverhuurbedrijf, whose registered office is in
Hoevelaken, Netherlands, Datek NV, whose registered                                                 ( 97IC 387/25 )
office is in Genk, Belgium, Thom Hendrickx, resident in
Turnhout, Belgium, represented by August Braakman , of
the Rotterdam Bar, and Willem Sluiter, of the Hague Bar,
with an address for service in Luxembourg at the
Chambers of Michel Molitor, 14A Rue des Bains —                                            (Language of the case: French)
application, in Case T-213/95 , for an order under
Articles 178 and 215 of the EC Treaty requiring the
Commission to pay compensation for the harm caused to
the applicants by its unlawful conduct and, in Case T-18/                  In Case T-239/94 : Association des Aciéries Europeennes
96 , for the annulment of Commission Decision 95/551 /EC                   Indépendantes ( EISA ), established in Brussels, represented
of 29 November 1995 relating to a proceeding pursuant                      by Alexandre Vandencasteele, of the Brussels Bar, with an
to Article 85 of the EC Treaty ( IV/34.179, 34.202 , 216 —                 address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of
Stichting      Certificatie     Kraanverhuurbedrijf        and    the      Ernest Arendt, 8— 10 Rue Mathias Hardt, v. Commission
Federatie van Nederlandse Kraanverhuurbedrijven ) ( OJ                     of the European Communities ( Agents : Michel Nolin and
L 312, 23 . 12 . 1995 , p. 79 ) — the Court of First Instance              Ben Smulders ), supported by Council of the European
( Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition ), composed of:                     Union ( Agents : Rüdiger Bandilla and Stephan Marquardt ),
K. Lenaerts, President, R Lindh, J. Azizi, J. D. Cooke and                 Federal Republic of Germany ( Agents : Ernst Röder and
M. Jaeger, Judges; J. Palacio Gonzalez, Administator, for                  Bernd Kloke ), Italian Republic ( Agents : Umberto Leanza
the Registrar, has given a judgment on 22 October 1997,                    and Pier Giorgio Ferri ), Ilva Laminati Piani SpA ,
in which it :                                                              established in Rome, represented by Aurelio Pappalardo ,
                                                                           of the Trapani Bar, and Massimo Merola , of the Rome
                                                                            Bar, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the
                                                                            Chambers of Alain Lorang, 51 Rue Albert I , —
 1 . joins Cases T-213/95 and T-18/96 for the purposes of                   application for the annulment of Commission Decisions
     the judgment;                                                          94/25 6/ECSC to 94/261 /ECSC of 12 April 1994 ,
                                                                           concerning aid to be granted by various Member States to
                                                                            steel undertakings established in their respective territories
2 . reduces to ECU 100 000 the fine imposed on                              ( OJ L 112, 3 . 5 . 1994, pp . 45 , 52 , 58 , 64, 71 and 77 ) —
                                                                            the Court of First Instance ( First Chamber, Extended
     the Stichting Certificatie Kraanverhuurbedrijf by
     Article 5 (2) of Commission Decision 95/551 /EC                        Composition ), composed of: A. Saggio, President, A.
     of 29 November 1995 relating to a proceeding                           Kalogeropoulos, V. Tiili, A. Potocki and R. M. Moura
     pursuant to Article 85 of the EC Treaty (IV/34.179,                    Ramos, Judges; H. Jung, Registrar, has given a judgment
                                                                            on 24 October 1997, in which it :
     34.202,           216      —        Stichting        Certificatie
     Kraanverhuurbedrijf and                the     Federatie     van
     Nederlandse Kraanverhuurbedrijven);
                                                                            1 . declares that it is unnecessary to give a decision on the
                                                                                 application for annulment of Commission Decision
 3 . for the rest, dismisses the applications;                                   94/256/ECSC of 12 April 1995 concerning aid to be
                                                                                granted by Germany to the steel company EKO Stahl
                                                                                 AG Eisenhüttenstadt;
 4 . orders the applicants to bear their own costs and to
     pay the costs incurred by the Commission, including
      those relating to the proceedings for interim measures,
     and the interveners ' costs .                                          2 . dismisses the application in all other respects;
     OJ C 31 , 3 . 2 . 1996 and C 95 of 30 . 3 . 1996 .
                                                                            3 . orders the applicant to pay five-sixths of the
                                                                                 defendant 's costs and all the costs of the intervener,
                                                                                 Ilva Laminati Piani SpA ;