CELEX: C2002/118/01
Language: en
Date: 2002-05-18 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) 12 March 2002 in Case C-160/98 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Giudice di pace di Genova): Eridania SpA v Azienda Agricola San Luca di Rumagnoli Viannj (Sugar — Price regime — Marketing year 1997/98 — Regionalisation — Deficit areas — Classification of Italy — Validity of Regulation (EC) No 1188/97 and Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81)

18.5.2002               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                               C 118/1
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                                                     COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                 JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                       amount of compensation for storage costs (OJ 1997 L 170,
                                                                             p. 3) and Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June
                                                                             1981 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar
                         (Sixth Chamber)                                     sector (OJ 1971 L 177, p. 4), as amended by Council
                                                                             Regulation (EC) No 1101/95 of 24 April 1995 (OJ 1995
                                                                             L 110, p. 1), the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of:
                                                                             F. Macken, President of the Chamber, N. Colneric (Rapporteur),
                           12 March 2002                                     C. Gulmann, J.-P. Puissochet and V. Skouris, Judges; J. Mischo,
                                                                             Advocate General; H. von Holstein, Deputy Registrar, has
                                                                             given a judgment on 12 March 2002, in which it has ruled:
in Case C-160/98 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from
the Giudice di pace di Genova): Eridania SpA v Azienda
          Agricola San Luca di Rumagnoli Viannj (1)
(Sugar — Price regime — Marketing year 1997/98 —
Regionalisation — Deficit areas — Classification of Italy —                  Consideration of the questions submitted has disclosed no factor of
Validity of Regulation (EC) No 1188/97 and Regulation                        such a kind as to affect the validity of Council Regulation (EC)
                        (EEC) No 1785/81)                                    No 1188/97 of 25 June 1997 fixing, for the 1997/98 marketing
                                                                             year, the derived intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention
                                                                             price for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, and the
                          (2002/C 118/01)                                    amount of compensation for storage costs or of Council Regulation
                                                                             (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organisation
                                                                             of the markets in the sugar sector, as amended by Council Regulation
                    (Language of the case: Italian)                          (EC) No 1101/95 of 24 April 1995.
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
                   in the European Court Reports)
                                                                             (1) OJ C 209, 4.7.1998.
In Case C-160/98: Reference to the Court under Article 177
of the EC Treaty (now Article 234 EC) by the Giudice di Pace
di Genova (Italy) for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings
pending before that court between Eridania SpA and Azienda
Agricola San Luca di Rumagnoli Viannj, on the validity of
Article 1(f) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1188/97 of 25 June
1997 fixing, for the 1997/98 marketing year, the derived
intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention price for
raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, and the