CELEX: 62003TO0311
Language: en
Date: 2006-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of 29 June 2006. # Nürburgring GmbH v European Parliament and Council of the European Union. # Action for annulment - Directive 2003/33/EC - Advertising and sponsorship of tobacco products - Ban on sponsorship of events or activities concerning more than one Member State - Locus standi - Inadmissibility. # Case T-311/03.

Order of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of 29 June 2006 – Nürburgring v Parliament and Council
      (Case T-311/03)
      Action for annulment – Directive 2003/33/EC – Advertising and sponsorship of tobacco products – Ban on sponsorship of events or activities concerning more than one Member State – Locus standi – Inadmissibility
      Applications for interim measures – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them (Art. 230, fourth para., EC; European Parliament and Council Directive
         2003/33, Art. 5(1)) (see paras 42-43, 68-72)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION for the annulment of Directive 2003/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the approximation
                  of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the advertising and sponsorship of
                  tobacco products (OJ 2003 L 152, p. 16), in particular Article 5(1) thereof.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  Dismisses the action as inadmissible;
               
            
         
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                  Orders the applicant to bear its own costs, as well as those of the Parliament and the Council; 
               
            
         
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                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain, the Republic of Finland and the Commission, as well as Hockenheim-Ring GmbH and Exploitatie Circuit
                     Park Zandvoort BV, to bear their own costs.