Translation of "Bureau de liaison - affaires juridiques " (French → English) :

Court Liaison Office

Central Section of the Directorate of Legal Affairs: Legal Adviser's Department and Treaty Office

Office of the General Council

Office of Legal Affairs and Law of the Sea and Ocean Affairs

Parliamentary Liaison Public Affairs

First, the General Court misinterpreted and misapplied Article 266 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU’ or ‘the Treaty’) in conjunction with Article 263 TFEU and the principle of effectiveness, the principle of conferral of powers, the principle of legal certainty, the principle of continuity of the legal order, the temporal application of law, the principle of legitimate expectations and the principles governing succession of legal rules, insofar as it annulled certain Commission decisions intended to carry out the Commission’s obligations under the judgments in Joined Cases T-218/03 to T-241/03, Boyle and othe ...[+++]rs v Commission and Joined Cases C-373/06 P, C-379/06 P and C-382/06 P, Flaherty and others v Commission.

In light of the foregoing reasoning, the Committee on Legal Affairs takes the view that the fee system should not be the subject of an implementing act on the basis of the Trade Mark Regulation currently in force, in conjunction with the transitional provisions in the Implementing Acts Regulation, as originally proposed by the Commission, but should rather be governed by provisions in the basic act itself, and any amendments to it should be subject to the ordinary legislative procedure.

88. Takes note that the development of a Statute for Assistants requires negotiations with the Commission and the Council and that the Bureau also wishes to consult the Committee on Legal Affaires; calls therefore on the newly-elected Bureau to press ahead with this subject with a view to regulating recruitment and working conditions and also social security and taxation arrangements for assistants;

92. Takes note that the development of a Statute for Assistants requires negotiations with the Commission and the Council and that the Bureau also wishes to consult the Committee on Legal Affaires; calls therefore on the newly-elected Bureau to press ahead with this subject with a view to regulating recruitment and working conditions and also social security and taxation arrangements for assistants;