CELEX: C1995/229/44
Language: en
Date: 1995-09-02 00:00:00
Title: ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE of 29 June 1995 in Case T-183/94: Cantina Cooperativa fra Produttori Vitivinicoli di Torre di Mosto and Others v. Commission of the European Communities (Agriculture - Common organization of the market in wine - Compulsory distillation scheme - Admissibility - Regulation of individual concern to the applicant)

?.. 9 . 95            EN                   Official Journal of the European Communities                               No C 229/ 19
     ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                             Action brought on 8 May 1995 by Giuseppe Mancini
                        of 29 June 1995                                 against the Commission of the European Communities
in Case T-l 83/94: Cantina Cooperativa fra Produttori                                       ( Case T-l 13/95 )
Vitivinicoli di Torre di Mosto and Others v . Commission of                                   ( 95/C 229/45
                the European Communities (*)
(Agriculture — Common organization ofthe market in wine                               (Language of the case: Italian)
— Compulsory distillation scheme — Admissibility —
     Regulation of individual concern to the applicant)
                                                                      An action against the Commission of the European
                           ( 95/C 229/44 )                            Communities was brought before the Court of First
                                                                      Instance of the European Communities on 8 May 1995 by
                (Language of the case: Italian)                       Giuseppe Mancini, an official of the Ispra division of the
                                                                      Joint Research Centre, residing at Varese ( Italy ),
                                                                      represented by Giuseppe Marchesini, who has a right of
In Case T-l 83/94: Cantina Cooperativa fra Produttori
                                                                      audience before the Corte di Cassazione della Repubblica
Vitivinicoli di Torre di Mosto, Cantina Cooperativa fra
                                                                      Italiana , with an address for service in Luxembourg at the
Produttori Vitivinicoli di Quarto d'Altino, Gruppo Pro. Ri .          Chambers of Ernest Arendt.
Ve . Impresa Cooperativa produttori Riuniti Veneti Srl,
Consorzio Cantine Sociali della Provincia di Verona Srl ,
Consorzio Cantine Sociali del Vicentino Srl , Cantine Sociali         The applicant claims that the Court should :
Mandamentali di Dolo, Cantina Cooperativa Produttori di
Valdobbiadene, Cantina Sociale Cooperativa di Campo di                — declare unlawful the removal of Mr Mancini from his
Pietra, Cantina Sociale cooperativa Ponte di Piave, Cantina               post as CEO Project Manager,
Sociale di Ormelle, SpA, Cantina Sociale Cona e Cavarzere
Srl, Cantina Sociale Cooperativa di Gaiarine, Cantina                 — annul the measure effectively adopted and order the
Sociale Cooperativa Basso Piave a RL, Cantina Sociale di                   Commission to reinstate the applicant in his former
Conegliano SC a RL, Consorzio tra le Cantine Sociali del                  post,
Padovano — Patavini , Cantina prà Maggiore Srl , Cantina
Sociale di Premaore di Camponogara — Cooperativa,                     — award the applicant ECU 10 000 — a sum notified to the
Cantina Sociale di Noale — Cooperativa , Consorzio 'La                     Commission during the administrative procedure — by
Marca' Cantine Sociali della Provincia di Treviso,                        way of compensation for non-material damage ,
Cooperativa Agricola La Salute — Ponte di Piave, Cantina
Sociale Cooperativa di Caposile Srl, Consorzio Agrario                — order the Commission to pay the costs .
Interprovinciale TV.BL, Aldo Zanella, Sergio Miotto,
Giovanni Paladin, Franceso Busolin, Luigi Bonotto,
Lamberto Belussi , Giuseppe Busolin, Leonato Nardin,                  Pleas in law and main arguments adduced in support:
Vittorio Meneghello, Alfio Paladin, Galileo Zaninotto,
Giorgio Cecchetto, Antonio Facchin, Silvio Facchin, Enzo              Since 1992 the applicant has held the post of Project
Lorenzon, Carillo Rinaldin, Dino Lorenzon, Primo Toffoli ,            Manager of the CEO ( Centre for Earth Observation )
Renzo Bergamo, Luigi Carraro and Tiziano di Stefani,                  project, reporting to the Director of the ISEI ( Institute for
represented by Ivone Cacciavillani, of the Venice Bar ( Italy ),      Systems Engineering and Informatics ) of the Joint Research
                                                                      Centre . On 21 March 1994 the Director of the ISEI notified
with an address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers
of Alain Lorang, 51 Rue Albert 1er, v. Commission of the              the applicant orally of the decision removing him from his
European Communities ( Agents : Eugenio de March and                  post by reasons to do with political insensitivity but not
Alberto Dal Ferro ), supported by the Council of the                  more closely specified . The applicant immediately
European Union ( Agents : Arthur Brautigam and Diego                  submitted a request on 24 March 1994, lodged in
Canga Fano ) — application for the annulment of a number              accordance with Article 90 ( 1 ) of the Staff Regulations,
of Community provisions on compulsory distillation in the             asking that the decision be confirmed in a formal act
wine sector — the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber,             specifying the charges against him. Since that request met
Extended Composition ) composed of J. Biancarelli,                    with no response, the applicant submitted a complaint in
President, C. P. Briët, C. B. Bellamy, P. Lindh and J. Azizi ,        accordance with Article 90 ( 2 ) of the Staff Regulations,
Judges; H. Jung, Registrar, made an order on 29 June 1995 ,           which was in turn followed by a long silence on the part of
                                                                      the administration .
the operative part of which is as follows:
                                                                       On 28 April 1995 the applicant received a reply to his
 1 . the application is dismissed as inadmissible;                    complaint, in which the Commission acknowledged that the
                                                                      decision removing him from his post was only
2 . the applicants are ordered to pay the costs;                      communicated orally and that, by way of a statement of the
                                                                       reasons for that decision, he had been criticized — again,
 3.   the Council shall bear its own costs .                           orally — for being excessively authoritarian in the
                                                                       performance of his duties .
 (') OJ No C 174 , 25 . 6 . 1994 .
                                                                       The applicant claims that his removal from the post of CEO
                                                                       Project Manager is unlawful and unjust on the following
                                                                       grounds :