Judgment_paragraph 9. · EMI Records Limited v CBS Grammofon A/S (86/75)

9.A certified copy of the order for reference was received at the Court of Justice on 1 August 1975. In the two parallel cases 51/75 and 96/75 the orders for reference were received at the Court on 9 June 1975 and 5 September 1975 respectively.Written observations were submitted in accordance with Article 20 of the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the EEC by the undertaking EMI Records Limited represented by Mr C. C. Marriott (Case 51/75), by Mr Kaj Holm-Nielsen (Case 86/75) and by Mr H. Rasner (Case 96/75); and by the undertaking CBS United Kingdom Limited represented by Mr F. P. Neill, Q. C, and Mr Antony Watson, instructed by Messrs McKenna & Co.; the undertaking CBS Grammofon A/S represented by Mr Eskil Trolle; the undertaking CBS Schallplatten GmbH, represented by Mr Dietrich Ohlgart; the Belgian Government, (Case 96/75), the Danish Government, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Government, the Irish Government, the Netherlands Government and the Government of the United Kingdom, represented by their Agents; and the Commission of the European Communities represented by its Legal Advisers, Mr John Temple Lang and Mr Antony McClellan (Case 51/75), Mr Sven Ziegler (Case 86/76) and Mr Erich Zimmermann (Case 96/75).On hearing the report of the Judge-Rapporteur an the views of the Advocate General the Court decided to open the oral procedure without any preparatory inquiry.By an order of 3 December 1975 it decided to join the three cases for the purposes of the oral procedure.