ISSN 1977-091X

doi:10.3000/1977091X.C_2012.174.eng

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 174

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 55
16 June 2012

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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 174/02

Last publication of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Official Journal of the European UnionOJ C 165, 9.6.2012

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General Court

2012/C 174/01

Assignment of Judges to Chambers

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V   Announcements

COURT PROCEEDINGS

Court of Justice

2012/C 174/03

Case C-125/09: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 26 April 2012 — European Commission v Republic of Cyprus (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Electronic communications networks and services — Directives 2002/21/EC and 2002/20/EC — Rights of way — Failure to transpose within the prescribed period)

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2012/C 174/04

Case C-337/10: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 3 May 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt am Main (Germany) — Georg Neidel v Stadt Frankfurt am Main (Social policy — Directive 2003/88/EC — Working conditions — Organisation of working time — Right to paid annual leave — Allowance in lieu in the event of sickness — Public servants (firemen))

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2012/C 174/05

Case C-406/10: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 2 May 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) — United Kingdom) — SAS Institute Inc. v World Programming Ltd (Intellectual property — Directive 91/250/EEC — Legal protection of computer programs — Articles 1(2) and 5(3) — Scope of protection — Creation directly or via another process — Computer program protected by copyright — Reproduction of the functions by a second program without access to the source code of the first program — Decompilation of the object code of the first computer program — Directive 2001/29/EC — Copyright and related rights in the information society — Article 2(a) — User manual for a computer program — Reproduction in another computer program — Infringement of copyright — Condition — Expression of the intellectual creation of the author of the user manual)

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2012/C 174/06

Case C-419/10: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 26 April 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Germany) — Wolfgang Hofmann v Freistaat Bayern (Directive 2006/126/EC — Mutual recognition of driving licences — Refusal by a Member State to recognise, in favour of a person whose driving licence was withdrawn on its territory, the validity of a driving licence issued by another Member State)

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2012/C 174/07

Case C-456/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 26 April 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo — Spain) — Asociación Nacional de Expendedores de Tabaco y Timbre (ANETT) v Administración del Estado (Free movement of goods — Articles 34 TFEU and 37 TFEU — National legislation prohibiting tobacco retailers from importing tobacco products — Rule concerning the existence and operation of a monopoly on the marketing of tobacco products — Measures having equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions — Justification — Consumer protection)

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2012/C 174/08

Case C-472/10: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 26 April 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Pest Megyei Bíróság (Hungary)) — Nemzeti Fogyasztóvédelmi Hatóság v Invitel Távközlési Zrt (Directive 93/13/EEC — Article 3(1) and (3) — Articles 6 and 7 — Consumer contracts — Unfair terms — Unilateral amendment of the terms of a contract by a seller or supplier — Action for an injunction brought in the public interest and on behalf of consumers by a body appointed by national legislation — Declaration of the unfair nature of a term — Legal effects)

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2012/C 174/09

Case C-508/10: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 26 April 2012 — European Commission v Kingdom of the Netherlands (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 2003/109/EC — Status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents — Application for long-term resident status — Application for a residence permit in a second Member State made by a third-country national who has already acquired long-term resident status in a first Member State or by a member of his family — Amount of the charges levied by the competent authorities — Disproportionate charges — Obstacle to the exercise of the right of residence)

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2012/C 174/10

Case C-510/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 26 April 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Østre Landsret (Denmark) — DR, TV2 Danmark A/S v NCB — Nordisk Copyright Bureau (Approximation of laws — Copyright and related rights — Directive 2001/29/EC — Article 5(2)(d) — Right to communicate works to the public — Exception to the reproduction right — Ephemeral recordings of works made by broadcasting organisations by means of their own facilities and for their own broadcasts — Recording made with the facilities of a third party — Obligation of the broadcasting organisation to pay compensation for any adverse effects of the actions and omissions of the third party)

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2012/C 174/11

Case C-520/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 May 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the First-Tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) — United Kingdom) — Lebara Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Taxation — Sixth VAT Directive — Article 2 — Supply of services for consideration — Telecommunications services — Prepaid phonecards displaying information for making international calls — Marketing through a network of distributors)

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2012/C 174/12

Case C-571/10: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 24 April 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale di Bolzano — Italy) — Servet Kamberaj v Istituto per l’Edilizia sociale della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano (IPES), Giunta della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano, Provincia autonoma di Bolzano (Area of Freedom, Justice and Security — Article 34 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Directive 2003/109/EC — Status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents — Right to equal treatment with regard to social security, social assistance and social protection — Derogation from the principle of equal treatment for social assistance and social protection measures — Exclusion of ‘core benefits’ from the scope of that derogation — National legislation providing for housing benefit for low income tenants — Amount of funds for third-country nationals determined on the basis of a different weighted average — Rejection of an application for housing benefit owing to the exhaustion of the funds for third-country nationals)

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2012/C 174/13

Joined Cases C-578/10 to C-580/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 26 April 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden — Netherlands) — Staatssecretaris van Financiën v L.A.C. van Putten (C-578/10), P. Mook (C-579/10), G. Frank (C-580/10) (Articles 18 EC and 56 EC — Motor vehicles — Use in a Member State of a borrowed private motor vehicle which is registered in another Member State — Taxation of that vehicle in the first Member State on its first use on the national road network)

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2012/C 174/14

Case C-620/10: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 3 May 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Kammarrätten i Stockholm — Migrationsöverdomstolen — Sweden) — Migrationsverket v Nurije Kastrati, Valdrina Kastrati, Valdrin Kastrati (Dublin system — Regulation (EC) No 343/2003 — Procedure for determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application — Third-country nationals in possession of a valid visa issued by the ‘Member State responsible’ within the meaning of Regulation No 343/2003 — Asylum application lodged in a Member State other than the State responsible pursuant to that regulation — Application for a residence permit in a Member State other than the State responsible followed by the withdrawal of the asylum application — Withdrawal occurring before the Member State responsible accepted that it should take charge — Withdrawal terminating the procedures set up by Regulation No 343/2003)

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2012/C 174/15

Joined Cases C-621/10 and C-129/11: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 26 April 2012 (references for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen sad Varna (Bulgaria) — Balkan and Sea Properties ADSITs (C-621/10), Provadinvest OOD (C-129/11) v Direktor na Direktsia ‘Obzhalvane i upravlenie na izpalnenieto’ — Varna pri Tsentralno upravlenie na Natsionalnata agentsia za prihodite (VAT — Directive 2006/112/EC — Articles 73 and 80(1) — Sale of immovable property between connected companies — Value of the transaction — National legislation providing that for transactions between connected persons the taxable amount for VAT purposes is the open market value of the transaction)

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2012/C 174/16

Case C-24/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 May 2012 — Kingdom of Spain v European Commission (Appeal — EAGGF — ‘Guarantee’ section — Expenditure excluded from Community financing — Expenditure incurred by the Kingdom of Spain — Aid for the production of olive oil)

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2012/C 174/17

Case C-225/11: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 26 April 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) (United Kingdom)) — The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Able UK Ltd (VAT — Directive 2006/112 — Exemptions — Article 151(1)(c) — Supply of services of dismantling obsolete US Navy ships in the territory of a Member State)

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2012/C 174/18

Case C-289/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 May 2012 — Legris Industries SA v European Commission (Appeal — Competition — Cartels — Copper fittings and Copper alloy fittings Sector — Commission decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Fines — Parent companies and subsidiaries — Whether unlawful conduct attributable)

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2012/C 174/19

Case C-290/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 May 2012 — Comap SA v European Commission (Appeal — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Copper and copper alloy fittings sector — Commission decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Fines — Duration of the infringement — Concept of ‘continuity’)

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2012/C 174/20

Case C-83/12 PPU: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 10 April 2012 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof — Germany) — Criminal proceedings against Minh Khoa Vo (Area of freedom, security and justice — Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 — Community Code on Visas — Articles 21 and 34 — National legislation — Third country nationals brought illegally into the territory of a Member State — Visas obtained by fraud — Criminal penalties imposed on the human smuggler)

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2012/C 174/21

Case C-119/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany), lodged on 6 March 2012 — Josef Probst v mr.nexnet GmbH

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2012/C 174/22

Case C-125/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil No 1 de Granada (Spain) lodged on 8 March 2012 — Promociones y Construcciones BJ 200, S.L. and Others

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2012/C 174/23

Case C-129/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt (Germany) lodged on 8 March 2012 — Magdeburger Mühlenwerke GmbH v Finanzamt Magdeburg

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2012/C 174/24

Case C-139/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Supremo (Spain) lodged on 19 March 2012 — Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona v Generalidad de Cataluña

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2012/C 174/25

Case C-151/12: Action brought on 29 March 2012 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain

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2012/C 174/26

Case C-152/12: Action brought on 29 March 2012 — European Commission v Republic of Bulgaria

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2012/C 174/27

Case C-154/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de première instance de Bruxelles (Belgium) lodged on 29 March 2012 — Isera & Scaldis Sugar SA, Philippe Bedoret and Co SPRL, Jean Rigot, Mathieu Vrancken v Bureau d’intervention et de restitution belge (BIRB)

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2012/C 174/28

Case C-158/12: Action brought on 30 March 2012 — European Commission v Ireland

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2012/C 174/29

Case C-170/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 11 April 2012 — Peter Pinckney v KDG mediatech AG

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2012/C 174/30

Case C-171/12 P: Appeal brought on 11 April 2012 by Carrols Corp. against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) delivered on 1 February 2012 in Case T-291/09 Carrols Corp. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) and Mr Giulio Gambettola

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2012/C 174/31

Case C-181/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 18 April 2012 — Yvon Welte v Finanzamt Velbert

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General Court

2012/C 174/32

Case T-270/10: Judgment of the General Court of 3 May 2012 — Conceria Kara v OHIM — Dima (KARRA) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark KARRA — Earlier national and Community figurative marks Kara — Company name Conceria Kara Srl and trade name Kara — Relative grounds for refusal — First sentence of Article 75 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 8 of the Paris Convention — Bad faith)

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2012/C 174/33

Case T-435/11: Judgment of the General Court of 2 May 2012 — Universal Display Corp. v OHIM (Community trade mark — International registration designating the European Community — Application for Community word mark UniversalPHOLED — Absolute ground for refusal — Descriptive character — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 174/34

Joined Cases T-40/07 P-REV and T-62/07 P-REV: Order of the General Court of 16 April 2012 — de Brito Sequeira Carvalho v Commission (Procedure — Application for revision — New fact — Absence thereof — Inadmissibility)

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2012/C 174/35

Joined Cases T-76/07, T-362/07 and T-409/08: Order of the General Court of 24 April 2012 — El Fatmi v Council (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures with a view to combating terrorism — Withdrawal from the list of persons concerned — Action for annulment — No need to adjudicate)

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2012/C 174/36

Case T-374/07: Order of the General Court of 20 April 2012 — Pachtitis v Commission (Civil service — Recruitment — Open competition — Rejection of an application seeking to obtain a copy of the questions and answers to the admission tests — Lack of competence of the General Court — Referral to the Civil Service Tribunal)

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2012/C 174/37

Case T-517/09: Order of the General Court of 24 April 2012 — Alstom v Commission (Competition — Market for power transformers — Letter from the Commission’s accounting officer — Refusal to accept the provision of a bank guarantee as a means of provisional cover of the fine — Disappearance of interest in bringing proceedings — No need to adjudicate)

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2012/C 174/38

Case T-341/10: Order of the General Court of 16 April 2012 — F91 Diddeléng and Others v Commission (Action for annulment — Decision to take no further action on a complaint — Failure to bring an action for failure to fulfil obligations — No challengeable act — Inadmissibility)

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2012/C 174/39

Case T-572/11 RII: Order of the President of the General Court of 23 April 2012 — Hassan v Council (Interim relief — Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures against Syria — Freezing of funds and economic resources — Application for interim relief — Fresh application — Absence of new facts — Inadmissibility)

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2012/C 174/40

Case T-163/12 R: Order of the President of the General Court of 23 April 2012 — Ternavsky v Council (Applications for interim measures — Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures against Belarus — Freezing of funds and economic resources — Application for suspension of operation of a measure — Disregard of the formal requirements — Inadmissibility)

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2012/C 174/41

Case T-135/12: Action brought on 2 March 2012 — France v Commission

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2012/C 174/42

Case T-175/12: Action brought on 12 April 2012 — Deutsche Börse v Commission

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2012/C 174/43

Case T-176/12: Action brought on 16 April 2012 — Bank Tejarat v Council

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2012/C 174/44

Case T-177/12: Action brought on 20 April 2012 — Spraylat v ECHA

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2012/C 174/45

Case T-178/12: Action brought on 17 April 2012 — Khwanda v Council

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2012/C 174/46

Case T-181/12: Action brought on 26 April 2012 — Bateni v Council

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2012/C 174/47

Case T-182/12: Action brought on 26 April 2012 — HTTS v Council

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2012/C 174/48

Case T-185/12: Action brought on 23 April 2012 — HUK-Coburg v Commission

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European Union Civil Service Tribunal

2012/C 174/49

Case F-126/11: Action brought on 28 November 2011 — ZZ v Commission

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2012/C 174/50

Case F-28/12: Action brought on 29 March 2012 — ZZ v Commission

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