CELEX: C2000/355/44
Language: en
Date: 2000-12-09 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 26 September 2000 in Joined Cases T-74/97 Büchel & Co. Fahrzeugteilefabrik GmbH v Council of the European Union and T-75/97 Büchel & Co. Fahrzeugteilefabrik GmbH v Commission of the European Communities (Extension of an anti-dumping duty — Exemption — Bicycle parts — Action for annulment — Inadmissibility)

C 355/20                 EN                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                            9.12.2000
                                                         COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                               3.    Orders the French Republic and the Commission to bear their
                                                                                own costs in relation to the procedure in Case T-74/97.
                       of 26 September 2000
                                                                          (1) OJ C 166, 31. 5. 1997.
in Joined Cases T-74/97 Büchel & Co. Fahrzeugteilefabrik
GmbH v Council of the European Union and T-75/97
Büchel & Co. Fahrzeugteilefabrik GmbH v Commission
                of the European Communities (1)
                                                                              JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
(Extension of an anti-dumping duty — Exemption — Bicycle
      parts — Action for annulment — Inadmissibility)                                           of 27 September 2000
                                                                          in Case T-184/97: BP Chemicals Ltd v Commission of the
                           (2000/C 355/44)                                                   European Communities (1)
                                                                          (State aid — Action for annulment — Interest in bringing
                                                                          proceedings — Partial inadmissibility — Article 92(3) of the
                    (Language of the case: German)                        EC Treaty (now, after amendment, Article 87(3) EC) —
                                                                          Directive 92/81/EEC — Meaning of ‘pilot projects for the
                                                                          technological development of more environmentally-friendly
In Joined Cases T-74/97 Büchel & Co. Fahrzeugteilefabrik                                                products’)
GmbH, established in Fulda (Germany), represented by
W.A. Rehmann and U. Zinsmeister, of the Brussels Bar, with                                          (2000/C 355/45)
an address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of Bonn
and Schmitt, 62 Avenue Guillaume, against the Council of the
European Union (Agents: R. Torrent, A. Tanca, S. Marquardt                                   (Language of the case: English)
and H.-J. Rabe), supported by the Commission of the European
Communities (Agents: V. Kreuschitz and N. Khan) and by the                In Case T-184/97: BP Chemicals Ltd, established in London
French Republic (Agent: K. Rispal-Bellanger) and T-75/97                  (United Kingdom), represented by J. Flynn, Barrister, and
Büchel & Co. Fahrzeugteilefabrik GmbH against the Com-                    J.A. Rodriguez, Solicitor, with an address for service in
mission of the European Communities (Agents: V. Kreuschitz,               Luxembourg at the Chambers of Loesch and Wolter, 11 Rue
N. Khan and M. Hilf) — application for, in Case T-74/97, the              Goethe, against Commission of the European Communities
annulment of Council Regulation (EC) No 71/97 of 10 January               (Agent: N. Khan), supported by the French Republic (Agents:
1997 extending the definitive anti-dumping duty imposed by                K. Rispal-Bellanger and C. Vasak) — application for the
Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93 on bicycles originating in the                annulment of Commission Decision SG(97) D/3266 of 9 April
People’s Republic of China to imports of certain bicycle parts            1997 concerning an aid scheme for biofuels in France — the
from the People’s Republic of China, and levying the extended             Court of First Instance (Second Chamber, Extended Compo-
duty on such imports registered under Regulation (EC)                     sition), composed of: A. Potocki, President, K. Lenaerts, J. Azizi,
No 703/96 (OJ 1997 L 16, p. 55), and, in Case T-75/97, for                M. Jaeger and A.W.H. Meij, Judges; B. Pastor, Principal
the annulment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97 of                   Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on
20 January 1997 on the authorisation of the exemption of                  27 September 2000, in which it:
imports of certain bicycle parts originating in the People’s
Republic of China from the extension by Council Regulation                1.    Dismisses as inadmissible the action brought against Com-
(EC) No 71/97 of the anti-dumping duty imposed by Council                       mission Decision SG(97) D/3266 of 9 April 1997 concerning
Regulation (EEC) No 2474/93 (OJ 1997 L 17, p. 17) — the                         an aid scheme for biofuels in France in so far as that decision
Court of First Instance (Third Chamber, Extended Compo-                         relates to measures applicable to the esters sector;
sition), composed of K. Lenaerts, President of the Chamber,
V. Tiili, J. Azizi, M. Jaeger and P. Mengozzi, Judges; B. Pastor,         2.    Annuls the contested decision to the extent to which it relates
Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment                to the measures concerning the ETBE sector;
on 26 September 2000, in which it:
                                                                          3.    Orders the Commission to pay the applicant’s costs;
1.    Dismisses the actions in Cases T-74/97 and T-75/97 as               4.    Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs and to pay
      inadmissible;                                                             those incurred by the applicant as a result of its intervention.
2.    Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and the Council’s        (1) OJ C 252 of 16.8.1997.
      costs in relation to Case T-74/97, and the Commission’s costs
      incurred in connection with Case T-75/97;