25.7.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 270/45


Order of the General Court of 8 June 2016 — Kohrener Landmolkerei and DHG v Commission

(Case T-178/15) (1)

((System of traditional specialities guaranteed - Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 - Letter from the Commission informing the competent national authorities of their late lodging of their opposition measure - Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law))

(2016/C 270/51)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicants: Kohrener Landmolkerei GmbH (Penig, Germany) and DHG Deutsche Heumilchgesellschaft mbH (Frohburg, Germany) (represented by: A. Wagner, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J. Guillem Carrau and G. von Rintelen, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application based on Article 263 TFEU and asking for annulment of the decision contained in the letter of 9 February 2015 from the Director of Directorate B ‘Multilateral relations and quality policy’ of the Commission’s ‘Agriculture and rural development’ Directorate General, with the reference Ares (2015)529719, informing the competent German authorities that their opposition measure under Article 51(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs (OJ 2012 L 343, p. 1), which was lodged on 5 January 2015, was submitted after the deadline.

Operative part of the order

1.

The action is dismissed as being manifestly lacking any foundation in law.

2.

Kohrener Landmolkerei GmbH and DHG Deutsche Heumilchgesellschaft mbH shall bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission.


(1)  OJ C 245, 27.7.2015.