CELEX: C2000/211/01
Language: en
Date: 2000-07-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 13 April 2000 in Case C-153/99 P: Commission of the European Communities v Antonio Giannini (Appeal — Implementation of a judgment of the Court of First Instance — Abuse of power)

22.7.2000               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                              C 211/1
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                                                     COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                 JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                       1. Dismisses the appeal;
                                                                             2. Orders the Commission of the European Communities to pay the
                         (Sixth Chamber)                                         costs.
                         of 13 April 2000                                    (1) OJ C 246 of 28.8.1999.
in Case C-153/99 P: Commission of the European Com-
                munities v Antonio Giannini (1)
(Appeal — Implementation of a judgment of the Court of
               First Instance — Abuse of power)                                               JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                          (2000/C 211/01)                                                              (First Chamber)
                                                                                                      of 13 April 2000
                    (Language of the case: French)
                                                                             in Case C-348/99: Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                                         ties v Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (1)
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published       (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations —
                   in the European Court Reports)                            Directive 96/9/EC — Non-transposition within the pre-
                                                                                                        scribed period)
In Case C-153/99 P: Commission of the European Communi-
ties (Agents: G. Valsesia and J. Currall) — appeal against the                                         (2000/C 211/02)
judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of
25 February 1999 in Joined Cases T-282/97 and T-57/98
Giannini v Commission [1999] ECR-SC I-A-33 and II-151,                                           (Language of the case: French)
seeking to have that judgment set aside in so far as it contains
an error of law regarding the abuse of power and the
infringement of Article 176 of the EC Treaty (now Article 233                (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
EC) which the Commission was alleged to have committed,                                         in the European Court Reports)
the other party to the proceedings being Antonio Giannini, an
official of the Commission of the European Communities,                      In Case C-348/99, Commission of the European Communities
residing in Brussels, represented by M. Dallemagne and C. Loc-               (Agents: M. Wolfcarius and M. Desantes Real) v Grand Duchy
chi, of the Brussels Bar, 85 Rue du Prince Royal, B-1050                     of Luxembourg (Agent: M.P. Steinmetz), for a declaration that,
Brussels — the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of: J.C. Moit-                by failing to adopt the laws, regulations and administrative
inho de Almeida, President of the Chamber, C. Gulmann                        measures necessary in order to comply with Directive 96/9/EC
(Rapporteur), J.-P. Puissochet, G. Hirsch and F. Macken, Judges;             of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March
F.G. Jacobs, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a              1996 on the legal protection of databases, (OJ 1996 L77,
judgment on 13 April 2000, in which it:                                      p. 20), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has failed to fulfil its