CELEX: 62011CA0237
Language: en
Date: 2012-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-237/11 and C-238/11: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 13 December 2012 — French Republic v European Parliament (Actions for annulment — Law governing the institutions — Calendar of plenary part-sessions of the European Parliament for 2012 and 2013 — Protocols on the location of the seats of the institutions and of certain bodies, offices, agencies and departments of the European Union)

9.2.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 38/7
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 13 December 2012 — French Republic v European Parliament
   (Joined Cases C-237/11 and C-238/11) (1)
   
   (Actions for annulment - Law governing the institutions - Calendar of plenary part-sessions of the European Parliament for 2012 and 2013 - Protocols on the location of the seats of the institutions and of certain bodies, offices, agencies and departments of the European Union)
   2013/C 38/06
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: French Republic (represented by: E. Belliard, G. de Bergues and A. Adam, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Parliament (represented by: C. Pennera, N. Lorenz and E. Waldherr, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (represented by: C. Schiltz, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Actions for annulment — Vote of the European Parliament of 9 March 2011 concerning the calendar of the session periods of the Parliament for 2012 — Calendar laying down that two of the twelve monthly plenary sessions are to be held during the same week in October — Infringement of Protocol No 3 and Protocol No 6 on the location of the seats of the institutions and of certain bodies, offices agencies and departments of the European Union — Place of work of the European Parliament.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the votes of the European Parliament of 9 March 2011 adopting the Parliament’s calendar of part-sessions for 2012 and 2013 to the extent that they do not provide for 12 monthly plenary part-sessions to be held in Strasbourg in 2012 and 2013;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Parliament to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 226, 30.7.2011.