Notice for the OJ
Action brought on 12 March 2002 by Organización de Productores de Túnidos Congelados against Commission of the European Communities
(Case T-69/02)
(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 12 March 2002 by the Organización de Productores de Túnidos Congelados, whose registered office is in Bermeo (Vizcaya, Spain), represented by Ramón Garcia-Gallardo Gil-Fournier and Javier Guillém Carrau, lawyers.
The applicant claims that the Court should:
(declare the present action admissible;
(annul the measure which is the subject-matter of the present action by which the European Commission has reduced the quantities in respect of which OPTUC is eligible for compensation, namely, Article 2(2) of and the annex to Regulation Commission Regulation (EC) No 2496/2001 of 19 December 2001 providing for compensation to producer organisations for tuna delivered to the processing industry between 1 January and 31 March 2001;
1(make any other appropriate order requiring the Commission to fulfil its obligations under Article 233 EC and, in particular, order the European Commission to re-examine the matter;
(order the Commission of the European Communities to pay the costs.
Pleas in law and main arguments
In the present case, the applicant, a Spanish frozen tunny producers' organisation which has previously contested before the Court of First Instance a number of Commission regulations providing for compensation to producer organisations for tuna delivered to the processing industry for the quarters between 1 July 1999 and 31 December 2000,
2 is challenging the regulation relating to the period between 1 January and 31 March 2001.
The pleas in law and main arguments are analogous to those put forward in Case T-142/01.
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