CELEX: 62015TA0140
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-140/15: Judgment of the General Court of 23 November 2017 — Aurora v CPVO — SESVanderhave (M 02205) (Plant varieties — Nullity proceedings — Sugar beet variety M 02205 — Article 20(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 — Article 7 of Regulation No 2100/94 — Distinctness of the candidate variety — Technical examination — Procedure before the Board of Appeal — Obligation to analyse carefully and impartially all the elements relevant to the present case — Power to alter)

15.1.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 13/12
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 23 November 2017 — Aurora v CPVO — SESVanderhave (M 02205)
   (Case T-140/15) (1)
   
   ((Plant varieties - Nullity proceedings - Sugar beet variety M 02205 - Article 20(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 - Article 7 of Regulation No 2100/94 - Distinctness of the candidate variety - Technical examination - Procedure before the Board of Appeal - Obligation to analyse carefully and impartially all the elements relevant to the present case - Power to alter))
   (2018/C 013/20)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Aurora Srl (Finale Emilia, Italy) (represented: initially by L.-B. Buchman, lawyer, and subsequently by L.-B. Buchman, R. Crespi and M. Razou, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) (represented: initially by F. Mattina, subsequently by M. Mattina and M. Ekvad, and finally by M. Mattina, M. Ekvad and A. Weitz, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of the CPVO, intervener before the Court: SESVanderhave NV (Tirlemont, Belgium) (represented: initially by K. Neefs and P. de Jong and subsequently by P. de Jong, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Board of Appeal of the CPVO of 26 November 2014 (Case A 010/2013) concerning nullity proceedings between Aurora and SESVanderhave.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Board of Appeal of the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) of 26 November 2014 (Case A 010/2013);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the CPVO to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by Aurora Srl;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders SESVanderhave NV to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 190, 8.6.2015.