CELEX: C2003/184/81
Language: en
Date: 2003-08-02 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance of 30 April 2003 in Case T-154/02: Villiger Söhne GmbH v Council of the European Union (Action for annulment — Article 3(1) and first indent of Article 4(2) of Directive 2002/10/EC — Structure and rate of excise duty applied on manufactured tobacco — Manifestly inadmissible)

C 184/36               EN                           Official Journal of the European Union                                          2.8.2003
Directive 2000/60/EC (OJ 2001 L 331, p. 1), the Court of First                     ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
Instance (Third Chamber), composed of: K. Lenaerts, President,
J. Azizi and M. Jaeger, Judges; H. Jung, Registrar, has made an                                       of 23 April 2003
order on 6 May 2003, the operative part of which is as follows:
                                                                            in Case T-73/03: Bernard Zaoui and Others v Commission
1.    The application is dismissed as inadmissible.                                        of the European Communities (1)
2.    The applicant shall bear its own costs and pay the costs              (Non-contractual liability of the Community — Application
      incurred by the Parliament and the Council.                                                   manifestly unfounded)
3.    The Commission shall bear its own costs.
                                                                                                       (2003/C 184/82)
(1) OJ C 144 of 15.06.2002.                                                                      (Language of the case: French)
                                                                            In Case T-73/03, Bernard Zaoui, residing in Combs La Ville
                                                                            (France), Lucien Zaoui, residing in Netanya (Israel) and Deborah
                                                                            Zaoui, residing in Ramat Gan (Israel), represented by
                                                                            J.A. Buchinger, lawyer, with an address for service in Luxem-
       ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                                 bourg, against the Commission of the European Communities
                                                                            — application for compensation for damage allegedly suffered
                                                                            by the applicants following an attack carried out in Netanya
                         of 30 April 2003                                   (Israel) on 27 March 2002 — the Court of First Instance (First
                                                                            Chamber), composed of B. Vesterdorf, President, H. Legal and
                                                                            M.E. Martins Ribero, Judges; H. Jung, Registrar, made an order
in Case T-154/02: Villiger Söhne GmbH v Council of the
                                                                            on 23 April 2003, the operative part of which is as follows:
                        European Union (1)
                                                                            1)    The application is rejected.
(Action for annulment — Article 3(1) and first indent of
Article 4(2) of Directive 2002/10/EC — Structure and rate
of excise duty applied on manufactured tobacco — Manifestly                 2)    The applicants are ordered to pay the costs.
                            inadmissible)
                                                                            (1) OJ 2003 C 124.
                          (2003/C 184/81)
                   (Language of the case: German)
In Case T-154/02: Villiger Söhne GmbH, established in Wald-                 Action brought on 10 April 2003 by Greenpeace Limited
shut-Tiengen (Germany), represented by B. Wägenbaur, lawyer,                and Nexgen Group Limited (trading as ECOTRICITY)
against Council of the European Union (Agents: F. Gijón and                    against the Commission of the European Communities
M. Simm) — application for annulment of Article 3(1) of
Council Directive 2002/10/EC of 12 February 2002 amending
Directives 92/79/EEC, 92/80/EEC and 95/59/EC as regards the                                            (Case T-121/03)
structure and rates of excise duty applied on manufactured
tobacco (OJ 2002 L 46, p. 26) and, in the alternative, of the                                          (2003/C 184/83)
first indent of Article 4(2) of that directive — the Court of
First Instance (Third Chamber), composed of K. Lenaerts, Presi-
dent of the Chamber, J. Azizi and M. Jaeger, Judges; H. Jung,                                   (Language of the case: English)
Registrar, made an order on 30 April 2003, the operative part
of which is as follows:
                                                                            An action against the Commission of the European Commu-
1.    The application is dismissed as inadmissible.                         nities was brought before the Court of First Instance of the
                                                                            European Communities on 10 April 2003 by Greenpeace
                                                                            Limited, London, United Kingdom, and Nexgen Group Limited
2.    The applicant is ordered to pay the costs.
                                                                            (trading as ECOTRICITY), Gloucestershire, United Kingdom,
                                                                            represented by P. Lasok QC, Mr J. Turner and Ms R. Haynes,
3.    There is no need to adjudicate on the applications for leave to       Barristers.
      intervene.
                                                                            The applicant claims that the Court should:
(1) OJ C 191 10.8.02.
                                                                            —     annul the Contested Decision and order the Commission
                                                                                  to pay the Applicants costs.