CELEX: C2000/176/34
Language: en
Date: 2000-06-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 13 April 2000 in Case T-18/98: Peter Reichert v European Parliament (Officials — Article 4 of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations — Expatriation allowance — Place in which main occupation is carried on)

C 176/20                 EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                           24.6.2000
                                                           COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                                 3. Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay two
                                                                                 thirds of the costs incurred by the applicant, excluding those
                                                                                 incurred as a result of the interventions of RTP — Radiotelevisão
                          of 10 May 2000                                         Portuguesa SA and the Portuguese Republic;
                                                                            4. Orders the Portuguese Republic and RTP — Radiotelevisão
in Case T-46/97: SIC — Sociedade Independente de                                 Portuguesa SA to bear their own costs and jointly and severally
Comunicação SA v Commission of the European Com-                                to pay two thirds of the costs incurred by the applicant as a result
                              munities (1)                                       of their intervention;
                                                                            5. Orders the United Kingdom to bear its own costs.
(Financing of public television channels — Complaint —
State Aid — Failure to open the procedure under Article                     (1) OJ C 142 of 10.5.1997.
93(2) of the EC Treaty (now Article 88(2) EC) — Action for
                              annulment)
                          (2000/C 176/33)
                                                                                JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                  (Language of the case: Portuguese)
                                                                                                       of 13 April 2000
In Case T-46/97: SIC — Sociedade Independente de Comunica-
ção, SA, established in Estrada da Outorela, Portugal, represent-           in Case T-18/98: Peter Reichert v European Parliament (1)
ed by C. Botelho Moniz and P. Moura Pinheiro, of the Lisbon
Bar, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the                       (Officials — Article 4 of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations
Chambers of A. May, 31 Grand-rue, v Commission of the                       — Expatriation allowance — Place in which main occupation
European Communities (Agents: G. Rozet and A. Alves Vieira),                                              is carried on)
supported by RTP — Radiotelevisão Portuguesa SA, established
in Lisbon, represented by M. Tinoco de Faria and I. Jalles, of                                          (2000/C 176/34)
the Lisbon Bar, with an address for service in Luxembourg at
the Chambers of Beghin and Feider, 56-58 Rue Charles Martel,
Portuguese Republic (Agents: L. Fernandes, M.L. Duarte and                                       (Language of the case: German)
T. Ribeiro, and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland (Agent: R. Magrill), application for the annulment of:
(1) the Commission’s decision of 7 November 1996 concern-                   In Case T-18/98: Peter Reichert, a member of the temporary
ing a proceeding under Article 93 of the EC Treaty (now                     staff working for the Socialist Group within the European
Article 88 EC) on the financing of public television channels,              Parliament, represented by Dieter Rogalla, Rechtsanwalt,
notified to the applicant on 6 January 1997, and (2) the                    Sprockhövel (Germany), with an address for service in Luxem-
decision allegedly contained in a letter from the Commission                bourg at the Chambers of Decker, Braun & Wagner, P.O. Box
of 20 December 1996 concerning the complaint by the                         335, v European Parliament (Agents: Yannis Pantalis and
applicant against RTP-Radiotelevisão Portuguesa SA — the                   Evelyn Waldherr) — application for annulment of the Euro-
Court (First Chamber, Extended Composition), composed of:                   pean Parliament’s decision of 21 October 1997 concerning
B. Vesterdorf, President, V. Tiili, A. Potocki, A.W.H. Meij and             the grant of the expatriation allowance provided for in Article
M. Vilaras, Judges; G. Herzig, Administrator, for the Registrar,            4 of Annex VII to the Staff Regulations of officials of the
has given a judgment on 10 May 2000 in which it:                            European Communities — the Court of First Instance (Single
                                                                            Judge), composed of: P. Mengozzi, sitting as a single judge;
                                                                            J. Palacio González, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given
1. Dismisses the action as inadmissible in so far as it is directed         a judgment on 13 April 2000, in which it:
     against the Commission’s letter of 20 December 1996;
                                                                            1. Dismisses the application;
2. Annuls the Decision in so far as it relates to the measures by the
                                                                            2. Orders the parties to bear their own costs.
     Portuguese State in favour of RTP — Radiotelevisão Portuguesa
     SA consisting in grants by way of compensation, tax exemptions,
     payment facilities for use of the television broadcasting network      (1) OJ C 94 of 28.3.1998.
     and the rescheduling of a debt arising from failure to pay social
     security contributions, together with non-recovery of interest for
     late payment;