CELEX: C1997/318/25
Language: en
Date: 1997-10-18 00:00:00
Title: JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE of 18 September 1997 in Joined Cases T-121/96 and T-151/96: Mutual Aid Administration Services NV (MAAS) v. Commission of the European Communities (Actions for the free supply of agricultural products to the peoples of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan - Successful tenderer's duty to pay dispatch money)

18 . 10 . 97          EN                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                   C 318/ 13
Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landskrona                1 . Can a Directive adopted pursuant to Article 100a of
Tingsrätt by order of that court of 6 August 1997 in the                  the Treaty of Rome have direct effect ?
             case of Åklagaren v. Antoine Kortas
                        ( Case C-3 19/97 )                            2 . If so, can such a Directive have direct effect even if the
                                                                          State has made notification pursuant to Article 100a (4 )
                          ( 97/C 318/24 )                                 of the Treaty of Rome ?
Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the                3 . If Question 2 is answered in the affirmative, how does
European Communities by an order of the Landskrona                        the notification by the Member State affect the
Tingsrätt ( District Court, Landskrona ) of 6 August 1997,                question of direct effect during the following periods:
which was received at the Court Registry on 16 September                   ( a ) between notification and reply ?
1997, for a preliminary ruling in the case of Åklagaren v.
Antoine Kortas on the following questions:                                 ( b ) from the reply ?
                                                     COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                             4 . orders the applicant to pay the costs.
                     of 18 September 1997
                                                                      H OJ C 318 , 26 . 10. 1996 and
in Joined Cases T-121/96 and T-151/96: Mutual Aid                         OJ C 40, 8 . 2 . 1997.
Administration Services NV (MAAS ) v. Commission of the
                  European Communities (')
(Actions for the free supply of agricultural products to the
peoples of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and
Tajikistan — Successful tenderer's duty to pay dispatch
                               money)
                                                                           ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                           ( 97/C 318/25 )
                                                                                                 of 4 July 1997
                                                                      in Case T-93/94 ( 92 ): Michael Becker v. Court of
                (Language of the case: Dutch)                                     Auditors of the European Communities ( l )
                                                                                              (Taxation of costs)
In Joined Cases T-121/96 and T-151 /96 : Mutual Aid                                              ( 97/C 318/26 )
Administration Services NV ( MAAS ), established in
Antwerp ( Belgium ), represented by Jan Tritsmans and
Koenraad Maenhout, of the Antwerp Bar, with an address
                                                                                       (Language of the case: German)
for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of Rene Faltz,
6 Rue Heinrich Heine, against Commission of the
European Communities ( Agents: Blanca Vila Costa and
Hubert van Vliet) — application for annulment of the                  In Case T-93/94 ( 92 ): Michael Becker, an official of the
Commission's decisions requiring the applicant to pay                 Court of Auditors of the European Communities, residing
dispatch money — the Court of First Instance ( Fourth                 in Luxembourg, represented by Roy Nathan, of the
Chamber), composed of: K. Lenaerts, President, R Lindh                Luxembourg Bar, with an address for service in
and J. D. Cooke, Judges; A. Mair, Administrator, for the              Luxembourg at the latter's Chambers, 18 Rue des Glacis,
Registrar, has given a judgment on 18 September 1997, in              against the Court of Auditors of the European
which it:                                                             Communities ( Agents: Jean-Marie Stenier, Jan Inghelram
                                                                      and Paolo Giusta ) — application for taxation of costs
                                                                      following the judgment of the Court of First Instance of
                                                                      6 March 1996 in Case T-93/94 ( Becker v. Court of
 1 . orders that Cases T-121 /96 and T-151 /96 he joined for          Auditors [ 1996] ECR II p. 141 ) — the Court of First
     the purposes of judgment;                                        Instance ( First Chamber ), composed of: A. Saggio,
                                                                      President, V. Tiili and R. M. Moura Ramos, Judges; H.
                                                                      Jung, Registrar, has given a judgment on 4 July 1997, in
2 . dismisses    the   application     in  Case   T-121 /96   as      which it:
     inadmissible:
                                                                      fixes the total amount of costs recoverable by the
3 . dismisses the application in Case T-151 /96;                      applicant up to the date of this order, including costs