CELEX: C2006/048/03
Language: en
Date: 2006-02-25 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of  10 January 2006  in Case C-94/03: Commission of the European Communities v Council of the European Union (Action for annulment — Council Decision 2003/106/EC concerning the approval of the Rotterdam Convention — Prior Informed Consent Procedure — Hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade — Choice of legal basis — Articles 133 EC and 175 EC)

25.2.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 48/2
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 10 January 2006
   in Case C-94/03: Commission of the European Communities v Council of the European Union (1)
   
   (Action for annulment - Council Decision 2003/106/EC concerning the approval of the Rotterdam Convention - Prior Informed Consent Procedure - Hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade - Choice of legal basis - Articles 133 EC and 175 EC)
   (2006/C 48/03)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case C-94/03, Commission of the European Communities (Agents: G. zur Hausen, L. Ström van Lier and E. Righini) v Council of the European Union (Agents: B. Hoff-Nielsen, M. Sims-Robertson, and K. Michoel), supported by French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues, F. Alabrune and E. Puisais), Kingdom of the Netherlands (Agents: H.G. Sevenster, S. Terstal and N.A.J. Bel), Republic of Austria (Agent: E. Riedl), Republic of Finland (Agent: T. Pynnä), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: R. Caudwell, and A. Dashwood, Barrister) European Parliament (Agents: C. Pennera, M. Moore, and K. Bradley) — Action for annulment under Article 230 EC, brought on 28 February 2003 — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans (Rapporteur), President of the Chamber, J. Makarczyk, C. Gulmann, P. Kūris and J. Klučka, Judges; J. Kokott, Advocate General; L. Hewlett, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 10 January 2006, in which it:
   
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               Annuls Council Decision 2003/106/EC of 19 December 2002 concerning the approval, on behalf of the European Community, of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade;
            
         
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               Orders the Commission of the European Communities and the Council of the European Union to bear their own costs;
            
         
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               Orders the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Parliament to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 101 of 26.04.2003.