CELEX: C2001/118/105
Language: en
Date: 2001-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance of 12 December 2000 in Case T-201/99: Royal Olympic Cruises Ltd and Others v Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities (Non-contractual liability of the Community — Damage caused by the military intervention in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia — Action manifestly unfounded in law)

C 118/38                EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                    21.4.2001
      ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                                ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST
                                                                                                      INSTANCE
                      of 12 December 2000
                                                                                                 of 31 October 2000
in Case T-201/99: Royal Olympic Cruises Ltd and Others
v Council of the European Union and Commission of the
                   European Communities (1)                               in Case T-84/00 R: Laboratórios Roussel, Limitada, and
                                                                          Laboratoires Roussel Diamant S.a.r.l. v Commission of
                                                                                            the European Communities
(Non-contractual liability of the Community — Damage
caused by the military intervention in the Federal Republic
    of Yugoslavia — Action manifestly unfounded in law)                   (Interlocutory proceedings — Withdrawal of marketing
                                                                          authorisation for medicinal products for human use contain-
                                                                          ing clobenzorex — Directive 75/319/EEC — Urgency —
                                                                                              Need to balance interests)
                         (2001/C 118/105)
                                                                                                   (2001/C 118/106)
                    (Language of the case: Greek)
In Case T-201/99: Royal Olympic Cruises Ltd, Valentine                                       (Language of the case: German)
Oceanic Trading Inc., Caroline Shipping Inc., Simpson Navi-
gation Ltd, Solar Navigation Corporation, Ocean Quest Sea
Carriers Ltd, Athena 2004 SA, Freewind Shipping Company,
established in Monrovia (Liberia), Elliniki Etaireia Diipeirotikon        In Case T-84/00 R: Laboratórios Roussel, Lda, of Mem
Grammon AE, established in Piraeus (Greece), represented by               Martins (Portugal), and Laboratoires Roussel Diamant S.a.r.l.,
N. Skandamis, of the Athens Bar, and A. Potamianaos, of the               of Puteaux (France), represented by B. Sträter, Rechtsanwalt,
Piraeus Bar, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the             Bonn, Germany, with an address for service in Luxembourg at
Chambers of S. Le Goueff, 9 Avenue Guillaume, against                     the Chambers of Bonn and Schmidt, 7 Val Sainte-Croix,
Council of the European Union (Agents: M. Vitsentzatos                    against Commission of the European Communities (Agents:
and S. Kyriakopoulou) and Commission of the European                      H. Støvlbæk and B. Wägenbaur) — application for the
Communities (Agents: T. Christoforou and A. Van Solinge) —                suspension of application of the decision of the Commission
application for compensation to make good the damage                      of 9 March 2000 concerning the withdrawal of authorisations
allegedly caused to the applicants as a result of the conduct of          for placing on the market medicinal products for human
the European Community during the military intervention in                consumption containing, in particular, clobenzorex — the
Kosovo between 24 March and 9 June 1999 — the Court of                    President of the Court of First Instance made an order on
First Instance (Second Chamber), composed of A.W.H. Meij,                 31 October 2000, the operative part of which is as follows:
President, A. Potocki and J. Pirrung, Judges; H. Jung, Registrar,
made an order on 12 December 2000, the operative part of
which is as follows:                                                      1.   The application to the applicants of the decision of the
                                                                               Commission of 9 March 2000 concerning the withdrawal of
                                                                               authorisations for placing on the market medicinal products
1.    The application is dismissed as manifestly unfounded in law.             for human consumption containing clobenzorex, fenbutrazat,
                                                                               fenproporex, mazindol, mefenorex, norpseudoephedrine, phen-
                                                                               metrazine, phendimetrazine and propylhexedrine (C(2000)
2.    The parties shall bear their own costs.                                  608) is suspended.
                                                                          2.   Costs are reserved.
(1) OJ C 366, 18.12.1999.