CELEX: C2000/079/48
Language: en
Date: 2000-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 December 1999 in Joined Cases T-132/96 and T-143/96: Freistaat Sachsen and Others v Commission of the European Communities (State aids — Compensation for economic disadvantages caused by the division of Germany — Serious disturbance in the economy of a Member State — Regional economic development — Community Framework on State Aid to the Motor Vehicle Industry)

C 79/22                  EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                            18.3.2000
                                                          COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                                 3. Orders the applicants to bear their own costs and those incurred
                                                                                by the Commission, save for the costs incurred by the Commission
                                                                                in relation to the intervention of the Federal Republic of Germany.
                       of 15 December 1999                                      The Federal Republic of Germany is ordered to bear its own costs
                                                                                and those incurred by the Commission as a result of its
                                                                                intervention. The United Kingdom is ordered to bear its own
in Joined Cases T-132/96 and T-143/96: Freistaat Sachsen                        costs.
and Others v Commission of the European Communi-
                                 ties (1)                                  (1) OJ C 336 of 9.11.1996.
(State aids — Compensation for economic disadvantages
caused by the division of Germany — Serious disturbance in
the economy of a Member State — Regional economic
development — Community Framework on State Aid to the
                      Motor Vehicle Industry)
                                                                               JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                           (2000/C 79/48)
                                                                                                     of 27 January 2000
                                                                           in Case T-256/97: Bureau Européen des Unions de Con-
                    (Language of the case: German)                         sommateurs (BEUC) v Commission of the European
                                                                                                       Communities (1)
In Joined Cases T-132/96: Freistaat Sachsen, represented by                (Antidumping proceeding — Consumer association —
Karl Pfeiffer and Jochim Sedemund, Rechtsanwälte, Berlin,                  Refusal of recognition as an interested party — Agreement
with an address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers                  on implementation of Article VI of GATT 1994 —
of Aloyse May, 31 Grand-Rue, and Volkswagen AG and                               Articles 6(7) and 21 of Regulation (EC) No 384/96)
Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH, with their respective registered
offices at Wolfsburg and Mosel (Germany), represented by                                                (2000/C 79/49)
Michael Schütte, Rechtsanwalt, Berlin, and Martina Maier,
Rechtsanwalt, Düsseldorf, with an address for service in
Luxembourg at the Chambers of Messrs Bonn and Schmitt, 62                                       (Language of the case: English)
Avenue Guillaume, supported by the Federal Republic of
Germany (Agents: initially Ernst Röder, and subsequently
Wolf-Dieter Plessing and Thomas Oppermann), against the                    In Case T-256/97: Bureau Européen des Unions de Consomma-
Commission of the European Communities (Agents: initially                  teurs (BEUC), established in Brussels, represented by Bernard
Paul Nemitz and Anders Jessen, and subsequently Paul Nemitz,               O’Connor, Solicitor, and Bonifacio Garcı́a Porras, of the Bar of
Hans-Jürgen Rabe, Georg Berrisch and Marco Nuñez Müller),                 Salamanca, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the
supported by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and                       Chambers of Arsène Kronshagen, 22 Rue Marie-Adélaïde,
Northern Ireland (Agents: John Collins and Sarah Moore) —                  supported by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
application for the partial annulment of Commission Decision               Ireland, represented by Michelle Ewing and David Anderson v
96/666/EC of 26 June 1996 concerning aid granted by                        Commission of the European Communities — application for
Germany to the Volkswagen Group for works in Mosel and                     annulment of the Commission’s decision of 18 July 1997
Chemnitz (OJ 1996 L 308, p. 46) — the Court of First Instance              refusing to recognise the applicant as an interested party,
(Second Chamber, Extended Composition), composed of                        within the meaning of Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of
A. Potocki, President of the Chamber, K. Lenaerts, C.W. Bella-             22 December 1995 on protection against dumped imports
my, J. Azizi and A.W.H. Meij, Judges; A. Mair, Administrator,              from countries not members of the European Community (OJ
has given a judgment on 15 December 1999, in which it:                     1996 L 56, p. 1), for the purposes of the antidumping
                                                                           proceeding leading to the adoption of Commission Regulation
                                                                           (EC) No 773/98 of 7 April 1998 imposing a provisional
1. Takes formal note that the applicants in Case T-143/96                  antidumping duty on imports of unbleached cotton fabrics
    withdraw from their action in so far as it seeks the annulment of      originating in the People’s Republic of China, Egypt, India,
    the first indent of Article 2 of Commission Decision 96/666/EC         Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey (OJ 1998 L 111, p. 19) — the
    of 26 June 1996 concerning aid granted by Germany to the               Court (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition), composed
    Volkswagen Group for works in Mosel and Chemnitz;                      of: J.D. Cooke, President and R. Garcı́a-Valdecasas, P. Lindh,
                                                                           J. Pirrung and M. Vilaras, Judges; A. Mair, Administrator, for
                                                                           the Registrar, has given a judgment on 27 January 2000, in
2. Dismisses the remainder of the actions;                                 which it: