Actions for damages - Common organisation of the markets - Bananas - Import scheme - Undertakings in the former GDR.

«(Actions for damages – Common organisation of the markets – Bananas – Import scheme – Undertakings in the former GDR)» Summary of the Judgment 1.. Non-contractual liability – Conditions – Lawful act – Actual damage, causal link and unusual and special damage – Cumulative nature (Art. 215 EC (now Art. 288 EC)) 2.. Non-contractual liability – Conditions – Actual and certain damage – Burden of proof (Art. 215 EC (now Art. 288 EC)) JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (First Chamber)2 July 2003 (1) ((Actions for damages – Common organisation of the markets – Bananas – Import scheme – Undertakings in the former GDR)) applicants, v defendants, intervener, THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (First Chamber), having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 20 February 2002, gives the following On those grounds, THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (First Chamber) Vesterdorf Forwood Legal H. Jung B. Vesterdorf Registrar President 1 – Language of the case: German.