CELEX: C1997/252/49
Language: en
Date: 1997-08-16 00:00:00
Title: Removal from the register of C-313/95

No C 252/24            EN                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                    16 . 8 . 97
         Removal from the register of C-3 13/95 (*)                    removal from the register of Case C-16/96 ( reference for a
                           ( 97/C 252/49 )                             preliminary ruling from the Bundessozialgericht): Karin
                                                                       Mille-Wilsmann v. Land Nordrhein-Westfalen .
By order of 18 April 1997 the President of the Sixth
Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European                        (') OJ No C 64, 2 . 3 . 1996 .
Communities has ordered the removal from the register
of Case C-3 13/95 : Commission of the European
Communities v. Italian Republic .
(') OJ No C 315 , 25 . 11 . 1995 .
                                                                                Removal from the register of C-245/96 ( ')
                                                                                                  97/C 252/51
                                                                       By order of 15 May 1997 the President of the Court of
          Removal from the register of C-16/96 ( l )                   Justice of the European Communities has ordered the
                           ( 97/C 252/50 )                             removal from the register of Case C-245/96 : Commission
                                                                       of the European Communities v. Italian Republic.
By order of 14 April 1997 the President of the Court of
Justice of the European Communities has ordered the                  ' (') OJ No C 269, 14 . 9 . 1996 .
                                                      COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                              Fontainebleau (France ), Groupement d'intérêt économique
                         of 12 June 1997                               Pari Mutuel Urbain, established in Paris, Pari Mutuel
                                                                       International established in Paris, represented by Bruno
in Case T-504/93 : Tiercé Landbroke SA v. Commission of                Chain and Jerome Depondt, of the Paris Bar, with an
               the European Communities (')                            address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of
                                                                       Victor Gillen, 13 Rue Aldringen — application for
(Action for annulment — Rejection of a complaint —                     annulment of the Commission Decision of 24 June 1993
Article 86 — Relevant market — Joint dominant position                 rejecting a complaint lodged by Tiercé Ladbroke SA on
— Refusal to grant a transmission licence — Article 85 (1 )            9 October 1990 (IV/33.699 ) against the principal French
           — Clause prohibiting retransmission)                        sociétes de courses ( horse-racing associations ), Pari Mutuel
                            ( 97/C 252/52 )                            Urbain and Pari Mutuel International, alleging
                                                                       infringement of Articles 85 and 86 of the EEC Treaty, and
                                                                       for an order requiring the Commission to re-examine
                                                                       that complaint forthwith — the Court of First Instance
              (Language of the case: English)
                                                                       ( Second Chamber, Extended Composition ), composed
                                                                       of: B. Vesterdorf, President, C. W. Bellamy and A.
                                                                       Kalogeropoulos, Judges; H. Jung, Registrar, has given a
In Case T-504/93 : Tiercé Landbroke SA, established in                 judgment on 12 June 1997, in which it:
Brussels, represented by Jeremy Lever QC, Christopher
Vajda, Barrister, of the Bar of England and Wales, and
Stephen Kon, Solicitor, London, with an address for
                                                                        1.  annuls the Commission decision contained in its letter
service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of Winandy and
Err, 60 Avenue Gaston Diderich, against Commission of '                     of 24 June 1 993 rejecting the applicant's complaint of
the European Communities (Agents : Julian Currall and                       9 October 1990 (IV/33.699) in so far as it considers
Francisco Enrique Gonzalez Diaz ), supported by Société                     that the refusal of the sociétés de courses to grant the
d'encouragement et des steeple-chases de France,                            applicant a licence for the transmission of French races
established in Boulogne-Billancourt ( France ), Société                     in Belgium, as notified to the applicant by a letter
d'encouragement à l'élevage du cheval français,                             from Pari Mutuel Urbain dated 8 August 1990, was
established in Paris, Société sportive d'encouragement,                     the normal consequence of the fact that neither Pari
                                                                            Mutuel Urbain nor the sociétés de courses take bets on
established in Paris, Société de sport de France, established
in Boulogne-Billancourt ( France ), Société des courses de la               the betting market in Belgium, and therefore could not
Côte d'Azur, established in Cagnes-sur-Mer ( France ),                      be the subject of an agreement between the sociétés de
Société des courses du Pays d'Auge, established in                          courses within the meaning of Article 85 (1 ) of the
Deauville ( France ), Société des courses de Compiègne,                     Treaty;
established in Compiègne ( France ), Société des courses de
Dieppe, established in Rouxmesnil-Bouteilles ( France ),
Société des courses de Fontainebleau, established in                    2 . dismisses the remainder of the application;