Orders nº T-163/97 of Court of First Instance of the European Communities, November 16, 1998

• Resolution Date: November 16, 1998
• Issuing Organization: Court of First Instance of the European Communities
• Decision Number: T-163/97

ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Third Chamber)

16 November 1998 (1) (Disjoinder - Suspension - Declining of jurisdiction)

In Joined Cases T-163/97 and T-179/97,

Netherlands Antilles, represented by Marco Marinus Slotboom and Pierre Vincent François Bos, of the Rotterdam Bar, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of Marc Loesch, 11 Rue Goethe,

applicant,

v

Council of the European Union, represented by Ramon Torrent, Jürgen Huber and Guus Houttuin, Director and Legal Advisers respectively in its Legal Service, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the office of Alessandro Morbilli, Director-General of the Legal Affairs Directorate of the European Investment Bank, 100 Boulevard Konrad Adenauer,

defendant in Cases T-163/97 and T-179/97,

and

Commission of the European Communities, represented by Thomas van Rijn, Legal Adviser, acting as Agent, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the office of Carlos Gómez de la Cruz, of its Legal Service, Wagner Centre, Kirchberg,

defendant in Case T-163/97,

supported by

Kingdom of Spain, represented, in Case T-163/97, by Luis Pérez de Ayala Becerril, Abogado del Estado, of the Community Litigation Service, and, in Case T-179/97, by Rosario Silva de Lapuerta, Abogado del Estado, of the same Service, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the Spanish Embassy, 4-6 Boulevard Emmanuel Servais,

intervener in Cases T-163/97 and T-179/97,

Italian Republic , represented by Umberto Leanza, Head of the Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, acting as Agent, assisted by Francesca Quadri, Avvocato dello Stato, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the Italian Embassy, 5 Rue Marie-Adélaïde,

intervener in Case T-163/97,

and

Commission of the European Communities, represented by Pieter J. Kuijper and Thomas van Rijn, Legal Advisers, acting as Agents, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the office of Carlos Gómez de la Cruz, of its Legal Service, Wagner Centre, Kirchberg,

intervener in Case T-179/97,

APPLICATION in Case T-163/97, on the one hand, for the annulment of Commission Regulation (EC) No 764/97 of 23 April 1997 introducing safeguard measures in respect of imports of rice originating in the overseas countries and territories (OJ 1997 L 112, p. 3), and, on the other hand, for compensation for the damage allegedly suffered by the applicant following the adoption of that regulation and...