CELEX: 62004TB0113
Language: en
Date: 2007-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-113/04: Order of the Court of First Instance of 12 December 2007 — Atlantic Container Line and Others v Commission (Enforcement of a judgment of the Court of First Instance — Repayment of the costs of bank guarantees provided in order to defer payment of a fine imposed by the Commission and subsequently annulled by the Court of First Instance — Action for annulment and damages — Non-contractual liability of the Community — No direct causal link between the allegedly unlawful conduct of the institution and the damage claimed)

8.3.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 64/38
            
         Order of the Court of First Instance of 12 December 2007 — Atlantic Container Line and Others v Commission
   (Case T-113/04) (1)
   
   (Enforcement of a judgment of the Court of First Instance - Repayment of the costs of bank guarantees provided in order to defer payment of a fine imposed by the Commission and subsequently annulled by the Court of First Instance - Action for annulment and damages - Non-contractual liability of the Community - No direct causal link between the allegedly unlawful conduct of the institution and the damage claimed)
   (2008/C 64/62)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicants: Atlantic Container Line AB (Göteborg, Sweden); Transportación Marítima Mexicana SA de CV (Mexico, Mexico); Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd (Seoul, South Korea); Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. Ltd (Seoul); Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA (Geneva, Switzerland); Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (Singapore, Singapore); Orient Overseas Container Line (UK) Ltd (Suffolk, United Kingdom); P & O Nedlloyd Container Line Ltd (London, United Kingdom); Sea-Land Service, Inc. (Jacksonville, Florida, United States) (represented initially by J. Pheasant, M. Levitt and K. Nicholson, and subsequently by M. Levitt and K. Nicholson, solicitors)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by P. Oliver, acting as Agent)
   Re:
   Application, first, for annulment of the Commission letter of 6 January 2004 refusing to repay the costs of the bank guarantees which the applicants entered into following the imposition of fines by Commission Decision 1999/243/EC of 16 September 1998 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Articles 85 and 86 of the EC Treaty (now Articles 81 EC and 82 EC) (Case No IV/35.134 — Trans Atlantic Conference Agreement) (OJ 1999 L 95, p. 1), annulled by judgment of the Court of First Instance of 30 September 2003 in Joined Cases T-191/98 and T-212/98 to T-214/98 Atlantic Container Line and Others v Commission [2003] ECR II-3275, and, second, for damages seeking repayment of the costs of the bank guarantees.
   Operative part of the order
   
               1.
            
            
               The action is dismissed.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The applicants are ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 118, 30.4.2004.