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doi:10.3000/1977091X.C_2012.331.eng

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 331

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 55
27 October 2012

Contents

page

IV   Notices

NOTICES FROM EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, OFFICES AND AGENCIES

Court of Justice of the European Union

2012/C 331/01

Last publication of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Official Journal of the European Union OJ C 319, 20.10.2012

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V   Announcements

COURT PROCEEDINGS

Court of Justice

2012/C 331/02

Case C-355/10: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 September 2012 — European Parliament v Council of the European Union (Schengen Borders Code — Decision 2010/252/EU — Surveillance of the sea external borders — Introduction of additional rules governing border surveillance — Commission’s implementing powers — Scope — Application for annulment)

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2012/C 331/03

Case C-490/10: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 6 September 2012 — European Parliament v Council of the European Union (Action for annulment — Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 617/2010 — Notification to the Commission of investment projects in energy infrastructure within the European Union — Choice of legal basis — Article 337 TFEU and Article 187 EA — Article 194 TFEU)

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2012/C 331/04

Case C-544/10: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Deutsches Weintor eG v Land Rheinland-Pfalz (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Approximation of laws — Public health — Consumer information and protection — Labelling and presentation of foodstuffs — Concepts of ‘nutrition claims’ and ‘health claims’ — Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 — Description of a wine as ‘easily digestible’ — Reference to reduced acidity levels — Beverages containing more than 1,2 % by volume of alcohol — Prohibition of health claims — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 15(1) — Freedom to choose an occupation — Article 16 — Freedom to conduct a business — Compatibility)

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2012/C 331/05

Case C-619/10: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākās tiesas Senāts — Latvia) — Trade Agency Ltd v Seramico Investments Ltd (Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Enforcement — Grounds for challenge — Document instituting proceedings not served on the defendant — Review by the court in which enforcement is sought — Scope — Value of the information in the certificate — Infringement of public policy — Judgment lacking reasoning)

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2012/C 331/06

Case C-18/11: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) — United Kingdom) — The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs v Philips Electronics UK Ltd (Freedom of establishment — Tax legislation — Corporation tax — Tax relief — National legislation excluding the transfer of losses incurred in the national territory by a non-resident branch of a company established in another Member State to a company of the same group established in the national territory)

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2012/C 331/07

Case C-42/11: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel d’Amiens — France) — European arrest warrant issued against João Pedro Lopes Da Silva Jorge (Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters — Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA — European arrest warrant and surrender procedures between Member States — Article 4(6) — Ground for optional non-execution of the European arrest warrant — Implementation in national law — Arrested person is a national of the issuing Member State — European arrest warrant issued for the purposes of enforcing a custodial sentence — Legislation of a Member State restricting the power not to execute the European arrest warrant to cases where the requested persons are nationals of that State)

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2012/C 331/08

Joined Cases C-71/11 and C-99/11: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht — Germany) — Bundesrepublik Deutschland v Y (C-71/11), Z (C-99/11) (Directive 2004/83/EC — Minimum standards for determining who qualifies for refugee status or for subsidiary protection status — Article (2)(c) — Classification as a ‘refugee’ — Article 9(1) — Definition of ‘acts of persecution’ — Article 10(1)(b) — Religion as ground for persecution — Connection between the reasons for persecution and the acts of persecution — Pakistani nationals who are members of the Ahmadiyya religious community — Acts by the Pakistani authorities designed to prohibit the manifestation of a person’s religion in public — Acts sufficiently serious for the person concerned to have a well founded fear of being persecuted on account of his religion — Individual assessment of the facts and circumstances — Article 4)

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2012/C 331/09

Case C-83/11: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 5 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) — United Kingdom) — Secretary of State for the Home Department v Muhammad Sazzadur Rahman, Fazly Rabby Islam, Mohibullah Rahman (Directive 2004/38/EC — Right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States — Article 3(2) — Obligation to facilitate, in accordance with national legislation, entry and residence for ‘any other family members’ who are dependants of a Union citizen)

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2012/C 331/10

Case C-96/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 6 September 2012 — August Storck KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Appeal — Community trade mark — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Three-dimensional sign consisting of the shape of a chocolate mouse)

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2012/C 331/11

Joined Cases C-147/11 and C-148/11: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (references for a preliminary ruling from the Upper Tribunal — United Kingdom) — Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Lucja Czop (C-147/11), Margita Punakova (C-148/11) (Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 — Directive 2004/38/EC — Right of permanent residence — Social assistance benefits — Care of a child — Period of residence completed before the State of origin acceded to the European Union)

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2012/C 331/12

Case C-170/11: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands) — Maurice Robert Josse Marie Ghislain Lippens, Gilbert Georges Henri Mittler, Jean Paul François Caroline Votron v Hendrikus Cornelis Kortekaas, Kortekaas Entertainment Marketing BV, Kortekaas Pensioen BV, Dirk Robbard De Kat, Johannes Hendrikus Visch, Euphemia Joanna Bökkerink, Laminco GLD N-A, Ageas NV, formerly Fortis NV (Regulation (EC) No 1206/2001 — Cooperation in the taking of evidence in civil and commercial matters — Matters covered — Hearing by the court of a Member State of a witness who is a party in the main proceedings residing in another Member State — Possibility to summon a party as a witness before the competent court in accordance with the law of its Member State)

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2012/C 331/13

Case C-308/11: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main — Germany) — Chemische Fabrik Kreussler & Co. GmbH v Sunstar Deutschland GmbH, formerly John O. Butler GmbH (Directive 2001/83/EC — Medicinal products for human use — Article 1(2)(b) — Meaning of ‘medicinal product by function’ — Definition of the term ‘pharmacological action’)

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2012/C 331/14

Case C-324/11: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Legfelsőbb Bíróság — Hungary) — Gábor Tóth v Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Észak-magyarországi Regionális Adó Főigazgatósága (Taxation — VAT — Directive 2006/112/EC — Article 9 — Meaning of taxable person — Right to deduct — Refusal — Principle of tax neutrality — Issuer of the invoice removed from the business register — Issuer of the invoice having failed to declare his employees to the tax authority — Obligation of the taxable person to satisfy himself as to the propriety of the conduct of the issuer of that invoice vis-à-vis the tax authority)

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2012/C 331/15

Case C-327/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 6 September 2012 — United States Polo Association v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Appeal — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 8(1)(b) — Likelihood of confusion — Word mark ‘U.S. POLO ASSN.’ — Opposition by the holder of the earlier word mark ‘POLO-POLO’)

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2012/C 331/16

Case C-471/11: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākās Tiesas Senāts — Latvia) — Cido Grupa SIA v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests (Accession of new Member States — Transitional measures — Agricultural products — Sugar — Regulation (EC) No 60/2004 — Basis of assessment and rate applicable for the charge on surplus stocks)

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2012/C 331/17

Case C-487/11: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Administratīvā rajona tiesa — Latvia) — Laimonis Treimanis v Valsts ieņēmumu dienests (Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 — Articles 1(2)(c), 2 and 7(1) — Relief from import duties on personal property — The term ‘property intended … for meeting … household needs’ — Motor vehicle imported into the European Union — Vehicle used by a member of the family of the importing owner)

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2012/C 331/18

Case C-496/11: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Central Administrativo Sul — Portugal) — Portugal Telecom SGPS, SA v Fazenda Pública (VAT — Sixth Directive — Articles 17(2) and 19 — Deductions — VAT due or paid for services acquired by a holding company — Services having a direct, immediate and unequivocal relationship with taxable output transactions)

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2012/C 331/19

Case C-524/11: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 6 September 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden — Netherlands) — Lowlands Design Holding BV v Minister van Financiën (Common Customs Tariff — Combined Nomenclature — Tariff classification — Romper bags for babies and young children — Subheadings 6209 20 00 or 6211 42 90 )

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2012/C 331/20

Case C-367/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat des Landes Oberösterreich (Austria) lodged on 1 August 2012 — Corinna Prinz-Stremitzer, Susanne Sokoll-Seebacher

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2012/C 331/21

Case C-383/12 P: Appeal brought on 8 August 2012 by Environmental Manufacturing LLP against the judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) delivered on 22 May 2012 in Case T-570/10: Environmental Manufacturing LLP v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)

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2012/C 331/22

Case C-397/12 P: Appeal brought on 28 August 2012 by Transports Schiocchet — Excursions against the order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) delivered on 18 June 2012 in Case T-203/11 Schiocchet v Council and Commission

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2012/C 331/23

Case C-400/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) London (United Kingdom) made on 31 August 2012 — Secretary of State for the Home Department v MG

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2012/C 331/24

Case C-406/12: Action brought on 4 September 2012 — European Commission v Republic of Slovenia

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2012/C 331/25

Case C-407/12: Action brought on 3 September 2012 — European Commission v Republic of Slovenia

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2012/C 331/26

Case C-410/12 P: Appeal brought on 7 September 2012 by medi GmbH & Co. KG against the judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) delivered on 12 July 2012 in Case T-470/09 medi GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)

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General Court

2012/C 331/27

Order of the General Court of 18 September 2012 — Schräder v CPVO — Hansson (LEMON SYMPHONY) (Joined Case T-133/08, T-134/08, T-177/08 and T-242/09) (Plant varieties — Decision by the CPVO to adapt, of its own motion, the official description of the variety LEMON SYMPHONY — Application for revocation of the Community plant variety right granted for the variety LEMON SYMPHONY — Application for annulment of the Community plant variety right granted for the variety LEMON SYMPHONY — Application for a Community plant variety right for the variety SUMOST 01 — Summons to attend oral proceedings before the Board of Appeal of the CPVO — Period of notice to attend of at least one month)

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2012/C 331/28

Case T-265/08: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 –Germany v Commission (ERDF — Reduction of financial assistance — Operational programme falling within Objective 1 (1994-1999), concerning the Land Thüringen (Germany))

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2012/C 331/29

Joined Cases T-168/10 and T-572/10: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Commission v SEMEA and Commune of Millau (Arbitration clause — Grant contract concerning a local development plan consisting in the performance of work for the preparation and launching of a European local enterprise centre in Millau (France) — Repayment of part of the advance payments made — Admissibility of an action brought against a company established under French law removed from the companies register — Application of French law — Administrative contract — Recovery of sum overpaid — Time-bar — Enforceability of an arbitration clause — Assumption of debt — Incidental debts rule — Stipulation in favour of third party)

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2012/C 331/30

Case T-326/10: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Fraas v OHIM (Tartan pattern in light grey, dark grey, beige, dark red and brown) (Community trade mark — Application for a figurative Community trade mark representing a tartan pattern in light grey, dark grey, beige, dark red and brown — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b), Article 75 and Article 76(1) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/31

Case T-327/10: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Fraas v OHIM (Tartan pattern in black, dark grey, light grey and dark red) (Community trade mark — Application for a figurative Community trade mark representing a tartan pattern in black, dark grey, light grey and dark red — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b), Article 75 and Article 76(1) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/32

Case T-328/10: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Fraas v OHIM (Tartan pattern in dark grey, light grey, beige and dark red) (Community trade mark — Application for a figurative Community trade mark representing a tartan pattern in dark grey, light grey, beige and dark red — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b), Article 75 and Article 76(1) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/33

Case T-329/10: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Fraas v OHIM (Tartan pattern in black, grey, beige and dark red) (Community trade mark — Application for a figurative Community trade mark representing a tartan pattern in black, grey, beige and dark red — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b), Article 75 and Article 76(1) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/34

Case T-26/11: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Fraas v OHIM (Tartan pattern in black, beige, brown, dark red and grey) (Community trade mark — Application for a figurative Community trade mark representing a tartan pattern in black, beige, brown, dark red and grey — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b), Article 75 and Article 76(1) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/35

Case T-31/11: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Fraas v OHIM (Tartan pattern in pink, violet, beige and dark grey) (Community trade mark — Application for a figurative Community trade mark representing a tartan pattern in pink, violet, beige and dark grey — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b), Article 75 and Article 76(1) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/36

Case T-50/11: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Fraas v OHIM (Tartan pattern in dark grey, light grey, black, beige, dark red and light red) (Community trade mark — Application for a figurative Community trade mark representing a tartan pattern in dark grey, light grey, black, beige, dark red and light red — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b), Article 75 and Article 76(1) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/37

Case T-156/11: Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2012 — Since Hardware (Guangzhou) v Council (Dumping — Imports of ironing boards originating in China — Proceeding initiated against a single company — Market economy treatment — Three-month time-limit provided for in the second indent of Article 2(7)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 — Burden of proof — Determination of injury)

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2012/C 331/38

Case T-164/11: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Reddig v OHIM — Morleys (Knife handle) (Community trade mark — Proceedings for invalidity — Three-dimensional Community trade mark — Knife handle — Absolute ground for refusal — Sign constituted exclusively by the shape of the product necessary for obtaining a technical result — Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Declaration of invalidity by the Board of Appeal)

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2012/C 331/39

Case T-220/11: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — TeamBank v OHIM — Fercredit Servizi Finanziari (f@ir Credit) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark f@ir Credit — Earlier Community figurative mark FERCREDIT — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/40

Case T-231/11: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Fraas v OHIM (Tartan pattern in dark grey, light grey, light blue, dark blue, ochre and beige) (Community trade mark — Application for a figurative Community trade mark representing a tartan pattern in dark grey, light grey, light blue, dark blue, ochre and beige — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b), Article 75 and Article 76(1) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/41

Case T-267/11: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2012 — Video Research USA, v OHIM (VR) (Community trade mark — Community figurative mark VR — Failure to apply for renewal of the mark — Cancellation of the mark upon expiry of the registration — Application for restitutio in integrum — Article 81 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/42

Case T-460/11: Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2012 — Scandic Distilleries SA v OHIM — Bürgerbräu, Röhm & Söhne (BÜRGER) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark BÜRGER — Earlier Community word mark Bürgerbräu — Relative ground of refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

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2012/C 331/43

Case T-241/03 REV: Order of the General Court of 11 September 2012 — Marcuccio v Commission (Proceedings — Review — Consequences of a later judgment of the General Court — New fact — Absence — Inadmissibility)

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2012/C 331/44

Case T-145/09: Order of the General Court of 6 September 2012 — Bredenkamp and Others v Commission (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures adopted having regard to the situation in Zimbabwe — Withdrawal from the list of persons concerned — Action for annulment — No need to adjudicate)

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2012/C 331/45

Case T-180/10: Order of the General Court of 6 September 2012 — Nickel Institute v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Classification, packaging and labelling of certain nickel carbonate compounds as dangerous substances — Directives 2008/58/EC and 2009/2/EC — 30th and 31st adaptations to technical progress of Directive 67/548/EEC — Partial refusal of access — Action for annulment — No need to adjudicate)

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2012/C 331/46

Case T-222/11: Order of the General Court of 6 September 2012 — Rautenbach v Council and Commission (Common foreign and security policy — Restrictive measures adopted having regard to the situation in Zimbabwe — Withdrawal from the list of persons concerned — Action for annulment — No need to adjudicate)

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2012/C 331/47

Case T-564/11: Order of the General Court of 5 September 2012 — Farage v Parliament and Buzek (Law governing the institutions — Decision of the President of the Parliament imposing on a Member of the Parliament the penalty of forfeiture of entitlement to the daily subsistence allowance for a period of 10 days — Decision of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Parliament declaring inadmissible the Member’s request for defence of his Parliamentary immunity — Manifest lack of jurisdiction of the General Court — Manifest inadmissibility)

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2012/C 331/48

Case T-642/11 P: Order of the General Court of 4 September 2012 — Mische v Parliament (Appeals — Civil service — Officials — Appointment — Classification in grade — Competition published before the entry into force of the new Staff Regulations of Officials — Distortion of the facts — Appeal manifestly unfounded)

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2012/C 331/49

Case T-352/12: Action brought on 3 August 2012 — Grupo Flexi de León v OHIM (FLEXI)

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2012/C 331/50

Case T-372/12: Action brought on 20 August 2012 — El Corte Inglés v OHIM — Apro Tech (APRO)

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2012/C 331/51

Case T-376/12: Action brought on 21 August 2012 — Hellenic Republic v Commission

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2012/C 331/52

Case T-377/12: Action brought on 22 August 2012 — Spa Monopole v OHIM

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2012/C 331/53

Case T-380/12: Action brought on 22 August 2012 — Demon International v OHIM — Big Line Sas di Graziani Lorenzo (DEMON)

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2012/C 331/54

Case T-388/12: Action brought on 30 August 2012 — Singer v OHIM — Cordia Magyarország Ingatlanforgalmazó Zártkörüen Müködö (CORDIO)

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2012/C 331/55

Case T-389/12: Action brought on 5 September 2012 — EDF v Commission

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2012/C 331/56

Case T-392/12: Action brought on 3 September 2012 — Luigi Lavazza SpA v OHIM

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2012/C 331/57

Case T-394/12: Action brought on 28 August 2012 — Alfastar Benelux v Council

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2012/C 331/58

Case T-398/12: Action brought on 6 September 2012 — Cosma Moden v OHIM — s.Oliver Bernd Freier (COSMA)

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2012/C 331/59

Case T-399/12: Action brought on 6 September 2012 — Cosma Moden v OHIM — s.Oliver Bernd Freier (COSMA)

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2012/C 331/60

Case T-401/12: Action brought on 10 September 2012 — Klingel v OHIM — Develey (JUNGBORN)

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2012/C 331/61

Case T-405/12: Action brought on 10 September 2012 — FH (*1) v Commission

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European Union Civil Service Tribunal

2012/C 331/62

Case F-89/12: Action brought on 21 August 2012 — ZZ v Commission

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2012/C 331/63

Case F-91/12: Action brought on 3 September 2012 — ZZ v Commission

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