CELEX: C2000/259/23
Language: en
Date: 2000-09-09 00:00:00
Title: Designation of Presidents of Chamber and assignment of Judges to Chambers

C 259/14               EN                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                         9.9.2000
                                                      COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
Designation of Presidents of Chamber and assignment of                       to the Fifth Chamber
                      Judges to Chambers
                                                                             Ms Lindh (President of Chamber), Mr Garcı́a-Valdecasas
                        (2000/C 259/23)                                      and Mr Cooke, Judges;
At its plenary meeting on 4 July 2000, the Court of First
Instance decided, pursuant to Article 2(4) of the Council                    to the Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition
Decision of 24 October 1988 and Articles 10 and 15 of the
Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, in respect of             Ms Lindh (President of Chamber), Mr Garcı́a-Valdecasas,
the period between 1 October 2000 and 31 September 2001:                     Mr Cooke, Mr Vilaras and Mr Forwood, Judges.
(a)  to designate as Presidents of Chamber:
     —     Ms Lindh,                                                   For cases in which the written procedure was completed and a
                                                                       hearing in the oral procedure was held or fixed before
     —     Mr Azizi,                                                   1 October 2000, the Chambers shall continue to sit with the
                                                                       same composition as before for the oral procedure, the
     —     Mr Mengozzi,                                                deliberation and the judgment.
     —     Mr Meij;
(b) to assign the Members of the Court of First Instance to            Criteria for assigning cases to the Chambers
     the Chambers as follows:
     to the First Chamber                                              At its plenary meeting on 4 July 2000, the Court of First
                                                                       Instance established the following criteria for the assignment
     Mr Vesterdorf (President), Mr Vilaras and M. Forwood,
                                                                       of cases to the Chambers for the period from 1 October 2000
     Judges;
                                                                       to 31 August 2001, pursuant to Article 12 of the Rules of
     to the First Chamber, Extended Composition                        Procedure:
     Mr Vesterdorf (President), Mr Potocki, Mr Pirrung, Mr             1.    (a)    Actions concerning the implementation of the rules
     Vilaras and Mr Forwood, Judges;                                                on State aid or the rules on trade protection
                                                                                    measures shall be assigned, with effect from the
     to the Second Chamber                                                          lodging of the application and without prejudice to
                                                                                    any subsequent application of Articles 14 and 51 of
     Mr Meij, (President of Chamber), Mr Potocki and Mr Pir-
                                                                                    the Rules of Procedures, to Chambers with an
     rung, Judges;
                                                                                    extended composition of five Judges.
     to the Second Chamber, Extend Composition
                                                                             (b) All other cases shall be assigned, with effect from
     Mr Meij (President of Chamber), Mr Lenaerts, Mr Potocki,                       the lodging of the application and without prejudice
     Mr Jaeger and Mr Pirrung, Judges;                                              to any subsequent application of Articles 14 and 51
                                                                                    of the Rules of Procedure, to Chambers of three
     to the Third Chamber                                                           Judges.
     Mr Azizi (President of Chamber), Mr Lenaerts et Mr Jaeger,
     Judges:                                                           2.    The cases referred to in paragraphs 1(a) and 1(b) shall be
                                                                             allocated between the Chambers as follows:
     to the Third Chamber, Extended Composition
     Mr Azizi (President of Chamber), Mr Lenaerts, Ms Tiili,                 (a)    The cases referred to in paragraph 1(a) shall be
     Mr Moura Ramos and Mr Jaeger, Judges;                                          assigned in turn, according to the order in which
                                                                                    they are registered at the Court Registry, to the First,
     to the Fourth Chamber                                                          Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Chambers, Extended
                                                                                    Composition;
     Mr Mengozzi (President of Chamber), Ms Tiili et Mr Mou-
     ra Ramos, Judges;
                                                                             (b) Cases concerning intellectual property, as referred
     to the Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition                                    to in Article 130(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the
                                                                                    Court of First Instance, shall be assigned, according
     Mr Mengozzi (President of Chamber), Mr Garcı́a-Valdeca-                        to the order in which they are registered at the Court
     sas, Ms Tiili, Ms Moura Ramos and Mr Cooke, Judges;                           Registry, to the Second and Fourth Chambers;
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      (c)  The other cases referred to in paragraph 1(b) shall              JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
           be assigned to the First, Second, Third, Fourth and
           Fifth Chambers. Such assignment is to be effected
           on the basis of three separate rotas, reflecting the                                  of 21 June 2000
           order in which the cases are registered at the Court
           Registry:
                                                                        in Case T-537/93: Hervé Tromeur v Council of the
                                                                        European Union and Commission of the European Com-
           —     for the cases referred to in Article 236 of the
                                                                                                    munities (1)
                 EC Treaty and Article 152 of the EAEC Treaty,
           —     for the cases concerning the implementation            (Action for damages — Non-contractual liability — Milk —
                 of the rules on competition applicable to              Additional levy — Reference quantity — Producer having
                 undertakings,                                          entered into an undertaking to convert — Production not
                                                                                    resumed on expiry of the undertaking)
           —     for the other cases covered by paragraph 1(b).
                                                                                                 (2000/C 259/24)
For the purposes of the rota referred to in the first indent of
paragraph 2(c), the assignment of cases concerning intellectual
property to the Second and Fourth Chambers on the basis of                                 (Language of the case: French)
the rota referred to in paragraph 2(b) shall be compensated for
by the assignment of cases to the First, Third and Fifth
Chambers on a pro rata basis.                                           In Case T-537/93: Hervé Tromeur, residing in Fuzunec, France,
                                                                        represented by C. Larzul and F. Buffet, and subsequently by
                                                                        A. Delanoé, of the Rennes Bar, with an address for service in
For the purposes of the rotas referred to in paragraphs 2(a)            Luxembourg at the Chambers of A. May, 398 Route d’Esch, v
and 2(c), the First Chamber and the First Chamber, Extended             Council of the European Union (Agents: M. Colaert and
Composition, presided over by the President of the Court of             M. Núñez Müller) and Commission of the European Communi-
First Instance, shall not be included in those lists every third        ties (Agents: G. Berscheid and M. Núñez Müller) — application
thime the end of a rota is reached.                                     for compensation under Article 178 and the second paragraph
                                                                        of Article 215 of the EC Treaty (now Article 235 EC and the
                                                                        second paragraph of Article 288 EC) for damage suffered by
The President of the Court of First Instance may derogate from          the applicant as a result of his having been prevented
that order on the ground that cases related or with a view to           from marketing milk by virtue of Council Regulation (EEC)
ensuring an even spread of the workload.                                No 857/84 of 31 March 1984 adopting general rules for the
                                                                        application of the levy referred to in Article 5c of Regulation
                                                                        (EEC) No 804/68 in the milk and milk products sector
                                                                        (OJ 1984 L 90, p. 13), as supplemented by Commission
Plenary session                                                         Regulation (EEC) No 1371/84 of 16 May 1984 laying down
                                                                        detailed rules for the application of the additional levy referred
                                                                        to in Article 5c of Regulation (EEC) No 804/68 (OJ 1984
                                                                        L 132, p. 11) — the Court of First Instance of the European
At ist plenary meeting on 4 July 2000, the Court of First               Communities (Single Judge: R.M. Moura Ramos); J. Palacio
Instance decided pursuant to the second subparagraph of                 González, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judg-
Article 32(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First           ment on 21 June 2000, in which it:
Instance that where, following the designation of an Advocate
General pusruant to Article 17 of the Rules of Procedure, there
is an even number of Judges in the Court of First Instance
                                                                        1.    Dismisses the application;
sitting in plenary session, the rota established in advance in
accordance with which the President of the Court is to
designate the Judge who will not take part in the judgment of
the case shall be in reverse order to that in which the Judges          2.    Orders the applicant to pay the costs.
rank according to their seniority in office under Article 6 of
the Rules of Procedure, unless the Judge who would thus be
designated is the Judge-Rapporteur. In that event, it shall be
the Judge ranking immediately above him who shall be                    (1) OJ C 314 of 20.11.93.
designated.