ISSN 1977-091X

doi:10.3000/1977091X.C_2012.133.eng

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 133

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 55
5 May 2012

Notice No

Contents

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IV   Notices

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

Court of Justice of the European Union

2012/C 133/01

Last publication of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Official Journal of the European UnionOJ C 126, 28.4.2012

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V   Announcements

COURT PROCEEDINGS

Court of Justice

2012/C 133/02

Case C-380/09 P: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 13 March 2012 — Melli Bank plc v Council of the European Union, French Republic, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, European Commission (Appeal — Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures against the Islamic Republic of Iran to prevent nuclear proliferation — Freezing the funds of a bank’s subsidiary — Principle of proportionality — Ownership or control of the entity)

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2012/C 133/03

Case C-506/09 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 March 2012 — Portuguese Republic v Transnáutica — Transportes e Navegação SA, European Commission (Appeal — Customs union — Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 and Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 — Remission of import duties — Consignments of tobacco and ethyl alcohol for third countries — Fraud committed by an employee of the company liable)

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2012/C 133/04

Case C-135/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 15 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Corte d’appello di Torino — Italy) — Società Consortile Fonografici (SCF) v Marco Del Corso (Copyright and related rights in the information society — Direct applicability of the Rome Convention, the TRIPS Agreement and the WPPT in the European Union legal order — Directive 92/100/EC — Article 8(2) — Directive 2001/29/EC — Concept of ‘communication to the public’ — Communication to the public of phonograms broadcast by radio in a dental practice)

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2012/C 133/05

Case C-162/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 15 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Ireland — Ireland) — Phonographic Performance (Ireland) Ltd v Ireland, Attorney General (Copyright and related rights — Directive 2006/115/EC — Articles 8 and 10 — Concepts of ‘user’ and ‘communication to the public’ — Installation in hotel bedrooms of televisions and/or radios to which the hotelier distributes a broadcast signal)

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2012/C 133/06

Case C-190/10: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Génesis Seguros Generales Sociedad Anónima de Seguros y Reaseguros (GENESIS) v Boys Toys SA, Administración del Estado (Community trade mark — Definition and acquisition — Earlier trade mark — Procedure for filing — Filing by electronic means — Method enabling precise identification of the day, hour and minute when the application was filed)

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2012/C 133/07

Case C-292/10: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 15 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Regensburg — Germany) — G v Cornelius de Visser (Jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters — Public notification of legal documents — Lack of known domicile or place of abode of the defendant in the territory of a Member State — Jurisdiction ‘in matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict’ — Infringement of the right to protection of personality liable to have been committed by the publication of photographs on the internet — Place where the harmful event occurred or may occur)

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2012/C 133/08

Case C-338/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 22 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Hamburg — Germany) — Grünwald Logistik Service GmbH (GLS) v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Stadt (Dumping — Anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of certain prepared or preserved citrus fruits originating in China — Regulation (EC) No 1355/2008 — Validity — Regulation (EC) No 384/96 — Article 2(7)(a) — Determination of normal value — Non-market economy country — Commission’s obligation to take due care to determine normal value on the basis of the price or constructed value in a market economy third country)

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2012/C 133/09

Case C-340/10: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 15 March 2012 — European Commission v Republic of Cyprus (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 92/43/EEC — Articles 4(1) and 12(1) — Failure to include Paralimni Lake as a site of Community importance within the time-limit laid down — System of protection for the species Natrix natrix cypriaca (Cypriot grass snake))

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2012/C 133/10

Case C-376/10 P: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 13 March 2012 — Pye Phyo Tay Za v Council of the European Union, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, European Commission (Appeal — Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures against the Republic of the Union of Myanmar — Freezing of funds applicable to persons, entities and bodies — Legal basis)

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2012/C 133/11

Case C-453/10: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 15 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Okresný súd Prešov — Slovakia) — Jana Pereničová, Vladislav Perenič v SOS financ, spol. s r. o. (Consumer protection — Consumer credit agreement — Incorrect statement of annual percentage rate of charge — Effect of unfair commercial practices and unfair terms on the validity of the contract as a whole)

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2012/C 133/12

Case C-567/10: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 22 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour constitutionnelle — Belgium) — Inter-Environnement Bruxelles ASBL, Pétitions-Patrimoine ASBL, Atelier de Recherche et d’Action Urbaines ASBL v Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (Directive 2001/42/EC — Assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment — Concept of plans and programmes ‘which are required by legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions’ — Applicability of the directive to a procedure for the total or partial repeal of a land use plan)

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2012/C 133/13

Case C-574/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 15 March 2012 — European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany (Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Directive 2004/18/EC — Public service contracts — Architecture and engineering services — Design, planning and supervision of a project to renovate a public building — Implementation of the project in several phases, for budgetary reasons — Market value)

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2012/C 133/14

Case C-46/11: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 15 March 2012 — European Commission v Republic of Poland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 92/43/EEC — Conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora — Inadequate protection of certain species, including the otter (Lutra Lutra))

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2012/C 133/15

Joined Cases C-90/11 and C-91/11: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 15 March 2012 (references for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht — Germany) — Alfred Strigl v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (Case C-90/11), Securvita Gesellschaft zur Entwicklung alternativer Versicherungskonzepte mbH v Öko-Invest Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (C-91/11) (Trade marks — Directive 2008/95/EC — Grounds for refusal or invalidity — Verbal expressions which consist of a word combination and a sequence of letters identical to the initial letters of those words — Distinctive character — Descriptive character — Assessment criteria)

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2012/C 133/16

Case C-153/11: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 22 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad — Varna — Bulgaria) — Klub OOD v Direktor na Direktsia ‘Obzhalvane i upravlenie na izpalnenieto’ — Varna pri Tsentralno upravlenie na Natsionalnata agentsia za prihodite (VAT — Directive 2006/112/EC — Article 168 — Right of deduction — Origin of the right of deduction — Right of a company to deduct the input VAT paid for the acquisition of capital goods not yet brought into use for the company’s business activities)

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2012/C 133/17

Case C-157/11: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 15 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Napoli — Italy) — Giuseppe Sibilio v Comune di Afragola (Social policy — Framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP — Directive 1999/70/EC — Clause 2 — Concept of ‘an employment contract or relationship defined by law, collective agreements or practice in force in each Member State’ — Scope of the framework agreement — Clause 4, point 1 — Principle of non-discrimination — Persons carrying out ‘work of social utility’ with public authorities — National rule excluding the existence of an employment relationship — National rule establishing a difference between the benefit paid to socially useful workers and the remuneration received by workers engaged under a contract of definite and/or indefinite duration by the same public authorities and carrying out the same activities)

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2012/C 133/18

Case C-248/11: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 22 March 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Cluj — Romania) — Criminal proceedings against Rareș Doralin Nilaș, Sergiu-Dan Dascăl, Gicu Agenor Gânscă, Ana-Maria Oprean, Ionuț Horea Baboș (Directive 2004/39/EC — Markets in financial instruments — Article 4(1)(14) — Concept of ‘regulated market’ — Authorisation — Functional requirements — Market whose legal nature is not specified, but which is managed, after a merger, by a legal person also managing a regulated market — Article 47 — Not included on the list of regulated markets — Directive 2003/6/EC — Scope — Market manipulation)

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2012/C 133/19

Case C-191/11 P: Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 8 February 2012 — Yorma’s AG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Norma Lebensmittelfilialbetrieb GmbH & Co. KG (Appeal — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 8(1)(b) — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark with the word element ‘yorma’s’ — Earlier Community word mark NORMA — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion)

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2012/C 133/20

Case C-404/11 P: Order of the Court of 2 February 2012 — Elf Aquitaine SA v European Commission (Appeal — Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 — Competition — Cartel — Sodium chlorate market — Concept of an ‘undertaking’ — Presumption of decisive influence — Scope of that presumption — Factors not capable of rebutting the presumption — Personal fine — Unlimited jurisdiction)

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2012/C 133/21

Case C-421/11 P: Order of the Court of 7 February 2012 — Total SA and Elf Aquitaine SA v European Commission (Appeal — Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 — Competition — Cartel — Market for methacrylates — Concept of ‘undertaking’ — Presumption of decisive influence — Obligation to state reasons — Principle of sound administration — Extension of the authority of a final decision — Deterrent multiplying factor — Indivisible nature of the fine — Unlimited jurisdiction)

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2012/C 133/22

Case C-442/11: Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 9 February 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) (United Kingdom) — Novartis AG v Actavis UK Ltd (The first subparagraph of Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure — Medicinal products for human use — Supplementary protection certificate — Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 — Articles 4 and 5 — Sole active ingredient for which such a certificate is granted — Scope of protection — Medicinal product containing more than one active ingredient, including the active ingredient which is the subject of a certificate)

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2012/C 133/23

Case C-556/11: Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 9 February 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado Contencioso-Administrativo No 4 de Valladolid — Espagne) — María Jesús Lorenzo Martínez v Junta de Castilla y León, Dirección General de Recursos Humanos de la Consejería de Educación (First subparagraph of Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure — Social policy — Directive 1999/70/EC — Clause 4(1) of the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP — Fixed-term employment contracts in the public sector — Non-university teaching — Right to six-yearly continuing professional education increments — Exclusion of teachers employed as temporary officials — Principle of non-discrimination)

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2012/C 133/24

Case C-574/11: Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 9 February 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Düsseldorf — Germany) — Novartis AG v Actavis Deutschland GmbH & Co KG, Actavis Ltd (The first subparagraph of Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure — Medicinal products for human use — Supplementary protection certificate — Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 — Articles 4 and 5 — Sole active ingredient for which such a certificate is granted — Scope of protection — Medicinal product containing more than one active ingredient, including the active ingredient which is the subject of a certificate)

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2012/C 133/25

Case C-599/11 P: Appeal brought on 28 November 2011 by TofuTown.com GmbH against the judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) delivered on 20 September 2011 in Case T-99/10 Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)

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2012/C 133/26

Case C-611/11 P: Appeal brought on 30 November 2011 by ara AG against the judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) delivered on 22 September 2011 in Case T-174/10 ara v OHIM

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2012/C 133/27

Case C-624/11 P: Appeal brought on 6 December 2011 by Brighton Collectibles, Inc. against the judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) delivered on 27 September 2011 in Case T-403/10 Brighton Collectibles v OHIM — Felmar

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2012/C 133/28

Case C-72/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court) Leipzig (Germany) lodged on 13 February 2012 — Gemeinde Altrip (Municipality of Altrip), Gebrüder Hört GbR, Willi Schneider v Rhineland-Palatinate

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2012/C 133/29

Case C-76/12: Action brought on 13 February 2012 — European Commission v French Republic

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2012/C 133/30

Case C-78/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Аdministrativen sad Sofia-grad (Bulgaria) lodged on 14 February 2012 — Еvitа-K EOOD v Direktor na Direktsia ‘Obzhalvane i upravlenie na izpalnenieto’, Sofia

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2012/C 133/31

Case C-84/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Germany) lodged on 17 February 2012 — Ezatollah Rahmanian Koushkaki v Federal Republic of Germany

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2012/C 133/32

Case C-89/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van Cassatie van België (Belgium) lodged on 17 February 2012 — Rose Marie Bark v Galileo Joint Undertaking, in liquidation

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2012/C 133/33

Case C-92/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from High Court of Ireland (Ireland) made on 17 February 2012 — Health Service Executive v SC, AC

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2012/C 133/34

Case C-93/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad Sofia-grad (Bulgaria) lodged on 21 February 2012 — ET Agrokonsulting-04-Velko Stoyanov v Izpalnitelen direktor na Darzhaven fond ‘Zemedelie’ — Razplashtatelna agentsia

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2012/C 133/35

Case C-101/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart (Germany) lodged on 27 February 2012 — Herbert Schaible v Land Baden-Württemberg

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2012/C 133/36

Case C-109/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus (Finland) lodged on 29 February 2012 — Laboratoires Lyocentre

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2012/C 133/37

Case C-130/12: Action brought on 9 March 2012 — European Commission v Portuguese Republic

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2012/C 133/38

Case C-328/11 P: Order of the President of the Court of 30 January 2012 — Alder Capital Ltd v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), Gimv Nederland BV

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General Court

2012/C 133/39

Joined Cases T-50/06 RENV, T-56/06 RENV, T-60/06 RENV, T-62/06 RENV and T-69/06 RENV: Judgment of the General Court of 21 March 2012 — Ireland and Others v Commission (State aid — Directive 92/81/EEC — Excise duty on mineral oils — Mineral oils used as fuel for alumina production — Exemption from excise duty — Whether the exemption complies with a Council decision of authorisation under Article 8(4) of Directive 92/81 — Presumption of legality attaching to European Union measures — Legal certainty — Sound administration)

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2012/C 133/40

Case T-113/06: Judgment of the General Court of 21 March 2012 — Marine Harvest Norway and Alsaker Fjordbruk v Council (Dumping — Imports of salmon originating in Norway — Definition of the Community industry — Like product — Composition of the sample of Community producers)

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2012/C 133/41

Case T-115/06: Judgment of the General Court of 21 March 2012 — Fiskeri og Havbruksnæringens Landsforening and Others v Council (Dumping — Imports of salmon originating in Norway — Lesser duty rule — Calculation of minimum import prices and fixed duties)

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2012/C 133/42

Case T-63/09: Judgment of the General Court of 21 March 2012 — Volkswagen v OHIM — Suzuki Motor (SWIFT GTi) (Community Trade Mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark SWIFT GTi — Earlier international and national marks GTI — Relative grounds for refusal — Similarity of the goods — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) — Assessment of the likelihood of confusion — Rejection of the opposition)

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2012/C 133/43

Case T-227/09: Judgment of the General Court of 21 March 2012 — Feng Shen Technology v OHIM — Majtczak (FS) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community figurative mark FS — Applicant acting in bad faith — Article 51(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 52(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

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2012/C 133/44

Joined Cases T-458/09 and T-171/10: Judgment of the General Court of 22 March 2012 — Slovak Telekom v Commission (Competition — Administrative procedure — Decisions requesting information — Necessity for the information sought — Principle of good administration — Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based — Proportionality)

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2012/C 133/45

Case T-157/10: Judgment of the General Court of 23 March 2012 — Barilla v OHIM — Brauerei Schlösser (ALIXIR) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for registration of the Community word mark ALIXIR — Earlier national word mark Elixeer — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 133/46

Case T-420/10: Judgment of the General Court of 27 March 2012 — Armani v OHIM — Del Prete (AJ AMICI JUNIOR) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark AJ AMICI JUNIOR — Earlier national figurative mark AJ ARMANI JEANS — Earlier national word mark ARMANI JUNIOR — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 133/47

Joined Cases T-439/10 and T-440/10: Judgment of the General Court of 21 March 2012 — Fulmen and Mahmoudian v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures against Iran with the aim of preventing nuclear proliferation — Freezing of funds — Actions for annulment — Obligation to state reasons — Rights of the defence — Right to effective judicial protection — Error of assessment — Burden and standard of proof)

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2012/C 133/48

Case T-225/10: Order of the General Court of 21 March 2012 — Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v Commission (Action for annulment — State aid — Aid scheme allowing the tax amortisation of financial goodwill for foreign shareholding acquisitions — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and not ordering the recovery of the aid — No individual concern — Inadmissibility)

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2012/C 133/49

Case T-228/10: Order of the General Court of 21 March 2012 — Telefónica v Commission (Action for annulment — State aid — Aid schemes allowing for the tax amortisation of financial goodwill for foreign shareholding acquisitions — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and not ordering the recovery of aid — Act entailing implementing measures — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissibility)

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2012/C 133/50

Case T-234/10: Order of the General Court of 21 March 2012 — Ebro Foods v Commission (Action for annulment — State aid — Aid scheme allowing the tax amortisation of financial goodwill for foreign shareholding acquisitions — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and not ordering the recovery of the aid — No individual concern — Inadmissibility)

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2012/C 133/51

Case T-174/11: Order of the General Court of 21 March 2012 — Modelo Continente Hipermercados v Commission (Action for annulment — State aid — Aid schemes allowing for the tax amortisation of financial goodwill for foreign shareholding acquisitions — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and not ordering the recovery of aid — Lack of individual concern — Inadmissibility)

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2012/C 133/52

Case T-398/11: Order of the General Court of 19 March 2012 — Barthel and Others v Court of Justice (Appeal — Public Service — Officials — Remuneration — Refusal to grant the appellants an allowance for shiftwork — Time-limit for lodging a complaint — Out of time — Appeal partly manifestly unfounded and partly manifestly inadmissible)

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2012/C 133/53

Case T-55/12: Action brought on 8 February 2012 — Chen v OHIM — AM Denmark (Cleaning devices)

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2012/C 133/54

Case T-105/12: Action brought on 2 March 2012 — Hellenic Republic v Commission

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2012/C 133/55

Case T-101/10: Order of the General Court of 19 March 2012 — Poland v Commission

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European Union Civil Service Tribunal

2012/C 133/56

Case F-133/11: Action brought on 13 December 2011 — ZZ v Commission

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2012/C 133/57

Case F-1/12: Action brought on 2nd January 2012 — ZZ v European Court of Auditors

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2012/C 133/58

Case F-5/12: Action brought on 10 January 2012 — ZZ v Frontex

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2012/C 133/59

Case F-7/12: Action brought on 16th January 2012 — ZZ v European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)

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2012/C 133/60

Case F-9/12: Action brought on 20 January 2012 — ZZ v European Parliament

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2012/C 133/61

Case F-21/12: Action brought on 15 February 2012 — ZZ v European Economic and Social Committee

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2012/C 133/62

Case F-29/12: Action brought on 5 March 2012 — ZZ and Others v Commission

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2012/C 133/63

Case F-31/12: Action brought on 6 March 2012 — ZZ v Commission

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Corrigenda

2012/C 133/64

Corrigendum to notice in the Official Journal in Case C-528/11 (OJ C 370, 17.12.2011)

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