CELEX: C2002/003/14
Language: en
Date: 2002-01-05 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 27 September 2001 in Case C-442/99 P: Cordis Obst und Gemüse Grosshandel GmbH (Appeal — Common organisation of the market — Bananas — Imports from ACP States and third countries — Request for import licences — Transitional measures — Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 — Principle of equal treatment)

5.1.2002                EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                            C 3/11
      —    that the authorised retailers and wholesalers have not                            JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
           imposed on their own purchasers contractual reservations
           setting out such opposition, even though they have been
           informed of it by the trade mark proprietor.                                              (Third Chamber)
(1) OJ C 6 of 8.1.2000; OJ C 79 of 18.3.2000.
                                                                                                  of 13 November 2001
                                                                           in Case C-427/00: Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                           ties v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
                                                                                                         Ireland (1)
                 JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                                                                           (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations —
                         (Sixth Chamber)                                   Quality of bathing water — Inadequate compliance with
                                                                                                  Directive 76/160/EEC)
                      of 27 September 2001
                                                                                                       (2002/C 3/15)
in Case C-442/99 P: Cordis Obst und Gemüse Grosshandel
                             GmbH (1)
                                                                                                (Language of the case: English)
(Appeal — Common organisation of the market — Bananas
— Imports from ACP States and third countries — Request
for import licences — Transitional measures — Regulation
      (EEC) No 404/93 — Principle of equal treatment)
                           (2002/C 3/14)                                   In Case C-427/00: Commission of the European Communities
                                                                           (Agent: R.B. Wainwright) v United Kingdom of Great Britain
                                                                           and Northern Ireland (Agent: G. Amodeo, assisted by D. Wyatt)
                   (Language of the case: German)                          — application for a declaration that by failing to ensure that
                                                                           bathing water in the United Kingdom complies with the limit
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published     values set in accordance with Article 3 of Council Directive
                   in the European Court Reports)                          76/160/EEC of 8 December 1975 concerning the quality of
                                                                           bathing water (OJ 1976 L 31, p. 1), the United Kingdom has
                                                                           failed to fulfil its obligations under that Directive — the Court
                                                                           (Third Chamber), composed of. C. Gulmann, acting for the
In Case C-442/99 P: Cordis Obst und Gemüse Grosshandel                     President of the Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet and J.N. Cunha
GmbH, established in Ostrau (Germany), (Rechtsanwalt:                      Rodrigues (Rapporteur), Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer,
G. Meier) — appeal against the judgment of the Court of First              Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment
Instance of the European Communities (Fifth Chamber) in                    on 13 November 2001, in which it:
Case T-612/97 Cordis v Commission [1999] ECR II-2771,
seeking to have that judgment set aside, the other parties
to the proceedings being: Commission of the European
Communities (Agent: K.-D. Borchardt) and French Republic                   1.    Declares that, since it has not ensured that bathing water
(Agents: K. Rispal-Bellanger and C. Vasak) — the Court                           complied with the limit values set in accordance with Article 3
(Sixth Chamber), composed of: C. Gulmann, President of the                       of Council Directive 761160/EEC of 8 December 1975,
Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen, N. Colneric and                         concerning the quality of bathing water, the United Kingdom
J.N. Cunha Rodrigues (Rapporteur), Judges; J. Mischo, Advocate                   of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has failed to fulfil its
General; H. von Holstein, Deputy Registrar, for the Registrar,                   obligations under that Directive.
has given a judgment on 27 September 2001, in which it:
                                                                           2.    Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
1.    Dismisses the appeal;                                                      Ireland to pay the costs.
2.    Orders Cordis Obst und Gemüse Grosshiandel to pay the costs;
3.    Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs.
                                                                           (1) OJ C 28 of 27.1.2001.
(1) OJ C 47 of 19.2.2000.