Notice for the OJ
Action brought on 13 November 2001 by Organización de Productores de Túnidos Congelados against Commission of the European Communities
(Case T-283/01)
(Language of the case: Spanish)
An action against the Commission of the European Communities was brought before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on 13 November 2001 by Organización de Productores de Túnidos Congelados, whose registered office is at Bermeo (Vizcaya, Spain), represented by Ramón Garcia-Gallardo and Javier Guillén Carrau, lawyers.
The applicant claims that the Court should:
(declare the present application admissible;
(annul the act which is the subject of the present application, by which the European Commission has reduced the quantities eligible for compensatory allowance in respect of OPTUC, namely, Article 2(2) of and the annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1670/2001 of 20 August 2001 providing for compensation to producer organisations for tuna delivered to the processing industry between 1 October and 31 December 2000;
1(order any other measure which the Court may deem appropriate requiring the Commission to fulfil its obligations under Article 233 EC and, more specifically, requiring the Commission to reexamine the situation;
(order the Commission of the European Communities to pay all the costs.
Pleas in law and main arguments
The applicant, a Spanish organisation of producers of frozen tunny which has previously challenged before the Court of First Instance a number of Commission regulations providing for compensatory allowances granted to producer organisations for the tuna supplied to the Community processing industry in the quarters between 1 July 1999 and 30 September 2000
2, challenges in the present case the regulation relating to the period between 1 October and 31 December 2000.
The pleas in law and main arguments are similar to those advanced in Case T-142/01.
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