JUDGMENT OF 20. 3. 1959 — CASE 18/57 NOLD v HIGH AUTHORITY

In Case 18/57

THE COURT composed of: A. M. Donner, President, O. Reise, President of Chamber, L. Delvaux, Ch. L. Hammes (Rapporteur) and R. Rossi, Judges, Advocate-General: K. Roemer Registrar: A. Van Houtte

gives the following

JUDGEMENT

Issues of fact and of law

I — Conclusions of the parties

II — Facts

III — Procedure

IV — Submissions of the parties

A. Capacity of the applicant

B. Formal validity of the application

C. Substance

(a) Submission of discrimination

1. Admissibility of the submission

2. Merits of the submission

(a) Decisions Nos 16 to 18/57

(b) Decision No 19/57

(b) Submission that the provisions of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany and the constitution of the Land Hesse are infringed.

(c) Submission of misuse of powers

1. Admissibility of the submission

2. Merits of the submission

(d) Submission of infringement of an essential procedural requirement

1. Admissibility of the submission

2. Merits of the submission

Grounds of Judgment

A — Capacity of the applicant

B — The formal validity of the application

C — The legal nature of the contested decisions

D — The individual submissions

E — Submission of infringement of an essential procedural requirement

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