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Information and Notices

Volume 57
11 January 2014

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IV   Notices

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

Court of Justice of the European Union

2014/C 009/01

Last publication of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Official Journal of the European UnionOJ C 377, 21.12.2013

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V   Announcements

COURT PROCEEDINGS

Court of Justice

2014/C 009/02

Case C-4/11: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 14 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Hessischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof — Germany) — Bundesrepublik Deutschland v Kaveh Puid (Asylum — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 4 — Regulation (EC) No 343/2003 — Article 3(1) and (2) — Determination of the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national — Articles 6 to 12 — Criteria for determining the Member State responsible — Article 13 — Fall-back clause)

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2014/C 009/03

Case C-322/11: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus — Finland) — Proceedings brought by K (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Articles 63 TFEU and 65 TFEU — Free movement of capital — Tax legislation of a Member State which does not allow deduction of the loss on the sale of immovable property situated in another Member State from the gain on the sale of securities in the Member State of taxation)

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2014/C 009/04

Joined Cases C-514/11 P and C-605/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 November 2013 — Liga para a Protecção da Natureza (LPN), Republic of Finland v European Commission (Appeal — Access to the documents of the institutions — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Third indent of Article 4(2) — Exception concerning the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Environmental information — Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 — Article 6(1) — Documents relating to the pre-litigation stage of infringement procedures — Refusal of access — Obligation to examine specifically and individually the documents referred to in the request for access — Overriding public interest)

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2014/C 009/05

Case C-518/11: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof te Amsterdam — Netherlands) — UPC Nederland BV v Gemeente Hilversum (Electronic communications networks and services — Directives 97/66/EC, 2002/19/EC, 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC and 2002/22/EC — Scope ratione materiae — Provision of a basic package of radio and television programmes via cable — Sale by a municipality of its cable network to a private undertaking — Contractual clause concerning the tariff — Powers of the national regulatory authorities — Principle of sincere cooperation)

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2014/C 009/06

Case C-638/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 November 2013 — Council of the European Union v Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Ltd, European Commission (Appeal — Dumping — Imports of cotton-type bed linen originating in Pakistan — Regulation (EC) No 384/96 — Article 3(7) — Concept of ‘other factors’)

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2014/C 009/07

Case C-60/12: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 14 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Vrchní soud v Praze — Czech Republic) — Proceedings concerning the enforcement of a financial penalty issued against Marián Baláž (Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters — Framework Decision 2005/214/JHA — Application of the principle of mutual recognition to financial penalties — ‘Court having jurisdiction in particular in criminal matters’ — The ‘Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat’ under Austrian law — Nature and scope of the review on the part of the court of the Member State of enforcement)

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2014/C 009/08

Case C-72/12: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Gemeinde Altrip, Gebrüder Hört GbR and Willi Schneider v Land Rheinland-Pfalz (Request for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Directive 85/337/EEC — Environmental impact assessment — Aarhus Convention — Directive 2003/35/EC — Right to challenge a development consent decision — Temporal application — Development consent procedure initiated before the period prescribed for transposing Directive 2003/35/EC expired — Decision taken after that date — Conditions of admissibility of the action — Impairment of a right — Nature of the procedural defect that may be invoked — Scope of the review)

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2014/C 009/09

Case C-90/12: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 7 November 2013 — European Commission v Republic of Poland (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Air transport — Agreements relating to air services between Member States and third countries — Obligation on Member States to distribute traffic rights among eligible Community air carriers on the basis of a non-discriminatory and transparent procedure and to inform the Commission of that procedure without delay)

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2014/C 009/10

Joined Cases C-187/12 to C-189/12: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 14 November 2013 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato — Italy) — SFIR — Società Fondiaria Industriale Romagnola SpA, Italia Zuccheri SpA, Co.Pro.B. — Cooperativa Produttori Bieticoli Soc. coop. Agricola, Eridania Sadam SpA v AGEA — Agenzia per le Erogazioni in Agricoltura, Ministero delle Politiche agricole, alimentari e forestali (Request for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 — Regulation (EC) No 968/2006 — Agriculture — Temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry — Conditions for granting restructuring aid — Concepts of ‘production facilities’ and ‘full dismantling’)

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2014/C 009/11

Joined Cases C-199/12 to C-201/12: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Netherlands) — Minister voor Immigratie, Integratie en Asiel v X (C-199/12), Y (C-200/12), Z v Minister voor Immigratie, Integratie en Asiel (C-201/12) (Directive 2004/83/EC — Minimum standards relating to the conditions for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status — Article 10(1)(d) — Membership of a particular social group — Sexual orientation — Reason for persecution — Article 9(1) — Concept of ‘persecution’ — Well-founded fear of being persecuted on account of membership of a particular social group — Acts sufficiently serious to justify such a fear — Legislation criminalising homosexual acts — Article 4 — Individual assessment of the facts and circumstances)

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2014/C 009/12

Case C-221/12: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 14 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State van België — Belgium) — Belgacom NV v Interkommunale voor Teledistributie van het Gewest Antwerpen (Integan), Inter-Media, West-Vlaamse Energie- en Teledistributiemaatschappij (WVEM), Provinciale Brabantse Energiemaatschappij CVBA (PBE) (Request for a preliminary ruling — Article 49 TFEU — Freedom of establishment — Article 56 TFEU — Freedom to provide services — Principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination — Obligation of transparency — Scope — Agreement concluded by public entities of one Member State and an undertaking of that Member State — Transfer, by those entities, of their television provision activities and, for a fixed period, the exclusive right to use their cable networks, to an undertaking in that Member State — Possibility for an economic operator of that same State to rely on Articles 49 TFEU and 56 TFEU before the courts of that Member State — No invitation to tender — Justification — Existence of an earlier agreement — Transaction intended to put an end to litigation concerning the interpretation of that agreement — Risk of depreciation of the transferred activity)

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2014/C 009/13

Case C-225/12: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Netherlands) — C. Demir v Staatssecretaris van Justitie (Request for a preliminary ruling — EEC-Turkey Association Agreement — Article 13 of Decision No 1/80 of the Association Council — ‘Standstill’ clauses — ‘Legally resident’)

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2014/C 009/14

Joined Cases C-249/12 and C-250/12: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție — Romania) — Corina-Hrisi Tulică v Agenția Națională de Administrare Fiscală — Direcția Generală de Soluționare a Contestațiilor (C-249/12), Călin Ion Plavoșin v Direcția Generală a Finanțelor Publice Timiș — Serviciul Soluționare Contestații, Activitatea de Inspecție Fiscală — Serviciul de Inspecție Fiscală Timiș (C-250/12) (Taxation — VAT — Directive 2006/112/EC — Articles 73 and 78 — Immovable property transactions carried out by natural persons — Classification of those transactions as taxable — Determination of the VAT owing when the parties have made no provision for it at the time of conclusion of the contract — Question as to whether or not the vendor may recover the VAT from the purchaser — Consequences)

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2014/C 009/15

Case C-313/12: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte dei conti, sezione giurisdizionale per la Regione Siciliana — Italy) — Giuseppa Romeo v Regione Siciliana (National administrative procedure — Purely internal situation — Administrative acts — Obligation to state reasons — Whether it is possible for failure to state reasons to be remedied during legal proceedings against an administrative act — Interpretation of the second paragraph of Article 296 TFEU and Article 41(2)(c) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Lack of jurisdiction of the Court)

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2014/C 009/16

Case C-383/12 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 November 2013 — Environmental Manufacturing LLP v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Société Elmar Wolf (Appeal — Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Figurative mark representing a wolf’s head — Opposition by the proprietor of the national and international figurative marks containing the word elements ‘WOLF Jardin’ and ‘Outils WOLF’ — Relative grounds for refusal — Detriment to the distinctive character of the earlier mark — Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 8(5) — Change in the economic behaviour of the average consumer — Burden of proof)

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2014/C 009/17

Case C-388/12: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 14 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per le Marche — Italy) — Comune di Ancona v Regione Marche (Structural Funds — European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) — Financial contribution from a Structural Fund — Criteria for the eligibility of expenditure — Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 — Article 30(4) — Principle of durability of the operation — ‘Substantial modification’ of an operation — Award of a concession contract without advertisement or a competitive tendering procedure)

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2014/C 009/18

Case C-442/12: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden — Netherlands) — Jan Sneller v DAS Nederlandse Rechtsbijstand Verzekeringsmaatschappij NV (Legal expenses insurance — Directive 87/344/EEC — Article 4(1) — Insured persons’ freedom to choose a lawyer — Clause in the standard terms and conditions of a contract guaranteeing legal assistance in any inquiry or proceedings by one of the insurer’s employees — Costs relating to legal assistance provided by an external legal adviser reimbursed only where the insurer decides that it is necessary to entrust handling of the case to an external legal adviser)

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2014/C 009/19

Case C-473/12: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour constitutionnelle — Belgium) — Institut professionnel des agents immobiliers (IPI) v Geoffrey Englebert, Immo 9 SPRL, Grégory Francotte (Processing of personal data — Directive 95/46/EC — Articles 10 and 11 — Obligation to inform — Article 13(1)(d) and (g) — Exceptions — Scope of exceptions — Private detectives acting for the supervisory body of a regulated profession — Directive 2002/58/EC — Article 15(1))

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2014/C 009/20

Case C-478/12: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 14 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Feldkirch — Austria) — Armin Maletic, Marianne Maletic v lastminute.com GmbH, TUI Österreich GmbH (Jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Article 16(1) — Contract for travel concluded between a consumer domiciled in one Member State and a travel agency established in another Member State — Supplier of services used by the travel agency established in the Member State where the consumer is domiciled — Right of a consumer to bring an action against two undertakings before the court for the place of his domicile)

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2014/C 009/21

Case C-522/12: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 7 November 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesarbeitsgericht — Germany) — Tevfik Isbir v DB Services GmbH (Request for a preliminary ruling — Freedom to provide services — Posting of workers — Directive 96/71/EC — Minimum rates of pay — Lump sums and employer contribution to a multiannual savings plan for the benefit of its employees)

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2014/C 009/22

Case C-547/12 P: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 7 November 2013 — Hellenic Republic v European Commission (Appeal — EAGGF — ‘Guarantee’ section — Clearance of the accounts of the paying agencies of certain Member States concerning expenditure financed by the EAGGF — Amounts which are recoverable from the Hellenic Republic following failure to recover within the period prescribed — Distortion of evidence)

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2014/C 009/23

Case C-560/12 P: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 7 November 2013 — Wam Industriale SpA v European Commission (Appeal — State aid — Establishing a company in certain third countries — Soft loans — Decision declaring aid partly incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery — Decision taken following the annulment by the General Court of the original decision concerning the same proceedings — Enforcement of a judgment of the General Court)

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2014/C 009/24

Case C-587/12 P: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 7 November 2013 — Italian Republic v European Commission (Appeal — State aid — Establishing a company in certain third countries — Soft loans — Decision declaring aid partly incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery — Decision taken following the annulment by the General Court of the original decision concerning the same proceedings — Enforcement of a judgment of the General Court)

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2014/C 009/25

Case C-23/13: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 7 November 2013 — European Commission v French Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive 91/271/EEC — Urban waste water treatment — Articles 3 and 4)

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2014/C 009/26

Case C-527/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Galicia (Spain) lodged on 7 October 2013 — Lourdes Cachaldora Fernandez v Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (INSS), Tesorería General de la Seguridad Social (TGSS)

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2014/C 009/27

Case C-537/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas (Lithuania) lodged on 14 October 2013 — Birutė Šiba v Arūnas Devėnas

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2014/C 009/28

Case C-538/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas (Lithuania) lodged on 14 October 2013 — eVigilo Ltd v Priešgaisrinės apsaugos ir gelbėjimo departamentas prie Vidaus reikalų ministerijos

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2014/C 009/29

Case C-539/13: Reference for a preliminary ruling from Court of Appeal (United Kingdom) made on 14 October 2013 — Merck Canada Inc., Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd v Sigma Pharmaceuticals PLC

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2014/C 009/30

Case C-541/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Hamburg (Germany) lodged on 16 October 2013 — Douane Advies Bureau Rietveld v Hauptzollamt Hannover

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2014/C 009/31

Case C-554/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State (Netherlands) lodged on 28 October 2013 — Z. Zh.; other party: Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie and Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie; other party: I.O.

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2014/C 009/32

Case C-562/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour du travail de Bruxelles (Belgium) lodged on 31 October 2013 — Centre public d’action sociale d’Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve v Moussa Abdida

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2014/C 009/33

Case C-564/13 P: Appeal brought on 31 October 2013 by Planet AE Anonymi Etaireia Parochis Symvouleftikon Ypiresion against the order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) delivered on 9 September 2013 in Case T-489/12 Planet v Commission

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General Court

2014/C 009/34

Case T-377/10: Judgment of the General Court of 18 November 2013 — Preparados Alimenticios v OHIM — Rila Feinkost-Importe (Jambo Afrika) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community word mark Jambo Afrika — Earlier Community figurative marks JUMBO, JUMBO CUBE, JUMBO MARINADE, JUMBO NOKKOS, JUMBO ROF, JUMBO CHORBA MOUTON-MUTTON, JUMBO Aroma All purpose seasoning Condiment — Earlier national figurative marks JUMBO — Non-registered earlier word mark JUMBO — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2014/C 009/35

Case T-313/11: Judgment of the General Court of 21 November 2013 — Heede v OHIM (Matrix-Energetics) (Community trade mark — Application for Community word mark Matrix-Energetics — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character — Relevant public — Date of the determination of the descriptive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2014/C 009/36

Case T-337/12: Judgment of the General Court of 21 November 2013 — El Hogar Perfecto del Siglo XXI v OHIM — Wenf International Advisers Ltd (Corkscrew) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a corkscrew — Earlier national design — Ground for invalidity — Lack of individual character — Overall impression not different — Informed user — Degree of freedom of the designer — Articles 4, 6 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

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2014/C 009/37

Case T-443/12: Judgment of the General Court of 21 November 2013 — Equinix (Germany) v OHIM — Acotel (ancotel.) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark ancotel. — Earlier Community figurative mark ACOTEL — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2014/C 009/38

Case T-524/12: Judgment of the General Court of 21 November 2013 — Recaro v OHIM — Certino Mode (RECARO) (Community trade mark — Revocation proceedings — Community word mark RECARO — Genuine use of the mark — Article 15(15)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Nature of the use of the mark — Admissibility of new evidence — Article 76(2) of Regulation No 207/2009 — Obligation to state reasons — Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009)

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2014/C 009/39

Case T-248/13: Action brought on 6 November 2013 — FK v Commission

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2014/C 009/40

Case T-534/13: Action brought on 4 October 2013 — Panrico v OHIM — HDN Development (Krispy Kreme DOUGHNUTS)

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2014/C 009/41

Case T-557/13: Action brought on 24 October 2013 — Germany v Commission

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2014/C 009/42

Case T-562/13: Action brought on 24 October 2013 — Isotis v European Commission

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2014/C 009/43

Case T-584/13: Action brought on 4 November 2013 — BASF Agro and Others v Commission

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European Union Civil Service Tribunal

2014/C 009/44

Case F-82/11: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 1 October 2013 — Loukakis and Others v Parliament (Civil Service — Parliament Staff Committee — Elections — Irregularities in the electoral process)

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2014/C 009/45

Case F-59/12: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (1st Chamber) of 17 October 2013 — BF v Court of Auditors of the European Union (Civil service — Appointment — Recruitment of a director — Vacancy notice — Act adversely affecting an official — None — Inadmissibility)

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2014/C 009/46

Case F-97/12: Judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal (1st Chamber) of 7 October 2013 — Thomé v Commission (Civil service — Open competition — Competition notice EPSO/AD/177/10 — Decision not to recruit a successful candidate — Criteria for admissibility — University qualification)

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2014/C 009/47

Case F-7/12: Order of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 23 October 2013 — Aristidis Psarras v ENISA (Civil Service — Member of temporary staff — Appraisal — Annual appraisal for 2009 — Career development report — Application for annulment of the career development report — Act adversely affecting the applicant — Action manifestly inadmissible)

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2014/C 009/48

Case F-57/12: Order of the Civil Service Tribunal (First Chamber) of 7 October 2013 — Marcuccio v Commission (Civil service — Officials — Disability allowance — Deduction of the amount of the debt owed to an institution — Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any basis in law)

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2014/C 009/49

Case F-50/10: Order of the Civil Service Tribunal of 16 October 2013 — De Roos-Le Large v Commission

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