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2013-9 E.C.R. 1 (2013)

handle is hein.intyb/rcbjcofi0351 and id is 1 raw text is: ZCVRLA Reports of Cases Case C-521/09 P-DEP Elf Aquitaine SA V European Commission ((Taxation of costs) Summary - Order of the Court of Justice (Eighth Chamber) of 1 October 2013 1. Judicial proceedings - Costs - Taxation - Competent court in the event of appeal (Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 137 and 184(1); Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 87(1)) 2. Judicial proceedings consideration Costs - Taxation - Recoverable costs Elements to be taken into (Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 144(b)) 3. Judicial proceedings - Costs - Taxation - Recoverable costs - Involvement of more than one lawyer - No effect - Assessment having regard primarily to the total number of hours' work objectively necessary for the purposes of the proceedings (Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 144(b)) 4. Judicial proceedings - Costs - Taxation - Recoverable costs - Concept - Value added tax - Exclusion in the case of a taxable person (Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 144(b)) 1. See the text of the decision. (see paras 9-12) 2. Expenses necessarily incurred by the parties for the purpose of the proceedings, in particular the travel and subsistence expenses and the remuneration of agents, advisers or lawyers, are to be regarded as recoverable costs. Recoverable costs are limited, first, to those incurred for the purpose of the proceedings, and, second, to those which were necessarily incurred. The Courts of the European Union are authorised, not to tax the fees payable by the parties to their own lawyers, but to determine the amount up to which that remuneration may be recovered from the party ordered to pay the costs. In ruling on the application for taxation of costs, those courts are not obliged to take account of any national scales of lawyers' fees or any agreement in relation to fees concluded between the party concerned and his agents or advisers. ECLJ:EU:C:2013:6441 1