CELEX: 62022TN0034
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-34/22: Action brought on 20 January 2022 — Cunsorziu di i Salamaghji Corsi — Consortium des Charcutiers Corses and Others v Commission

7.3.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 109/33
            
         
      Action brought on 20 January 2022 — Cunsorziu di i Salamaghji Corsi — Consortium des Charcutiers Corses and Others v Commission
      (Case T-34/22)
      (2022/C 109/43)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Cunsorziu di i Salamaghji Corsi — Consortium des Charcutiers Corses (Borgo, France) and nine other applicants (represented by: T. de Haan and V. Le Meur-Baudry, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicants claim that the Court should:
      
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                  Annul Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/1879 of 26 October 2021 rejecting three applications for protection of a geographical indication in accordance with Article 52(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council ‘Jambon sec de l’Île de Beauté’ (PGI), ‘Lonzo de l’Île de Beauté’ (PGI), ‘Coppa de l’Île de Beauté’ (PGI); (1)
                  
               
            
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                  Order the Commission to pay the costs.
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      In support of the action, the applicants rely on two pleas in law.
      
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                  First plea in law, alleging, first, infringement of Articles 49, 50 and 52 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs (OJ 2012 L 343, p. 1) and, second, infringement of the general legal principle of the force of res judicata, in that the Commission exceeded the limits of the powers conferred on it by that regulation.
               
            
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                  Second plea in law, alleging infringement of Articles 7 and 13 of Regulation No 1151/2012, in that the Commission erred in its application of the above provisions.
               
            
         (1)  OJ 2021 L 383, p. 1.